Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

Report No. 1 · Nonprofit Hospital Executive Pay vs Charity Care · Annual Report, 2026 edition

Arkansas · Ranked 118 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Arkansas Children's Hospital

Marcella Doderer, President/CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$2.7M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
2.86%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
9.5%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Most of the reported compensation ($2,393,424 of $2,712,312) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$1,106,293,025
Total expenses
$995,843,495
Net assets
$1,329,477,279
Employees
5,937
Hospitals covered
2 facilities across 2 filings
Charity care, net
$28,478,254
Bad debt
$7,050,075
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($705,648)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$2,393,424
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$318,888
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$2,712,312 to Marcella Doderer

Medicare surplus (shortfall) is Schedule H Part III line 7: Medicare revenue minus the cost of Medicare care. A figure in parentheses is a shortfall. Like bad debt, it is not community benefit on the IRS form.

Source: Form 990, Arkansas Children's Hospital, EIN 71-0236857, fiscal year ending 2025-06, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: ceo title.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

What the system reported as total community benefit (Schedule H line 7k)$154.4M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$28.5M (18%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($7.1M) and Medicare shortfall are reported separately by the IRS and are not community benefit on the form.

§3Filings in this system

Filing entityEINFY endRevenueCharity care% of expensesFiling
Arkansas Children's Hospital71-02368572025-06$962.4M$24.0M2.78%990
Arkansas Children's Northwest Inc81-08176602025-06$143.9M$4.4M3.38%990

Every number on this page was copied from the filing linked above. If a figure is wrong, send the filing that contradicts it and the correction runs at the top of this page.

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Arkansas Children's Hospital: CEO pay $2.7M, charity care 2.86% of expenses