Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Texas · Ranked 137 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Ascension Seton

William A Davis, Ex-Officio/CEO, Ministry Market (End 5/2025). Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$2.5M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
6.90%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
1.0%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Most of the reported compensation ($2,389,914 of $2,454,410) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

Also listed with a chief executive title in the same filings: Ashley Marie Dickinson, Interim CEO, $1,132,919. Where a chief executive retired during the year, the filing reports the final-year payout.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$3,880,333,608
Total expenses
$3,401,225,476
Net assets
$2,126,932,089
Employees
18,265
Hospitals covered
19 facilities across 3 filings
Charity care, net
$234,841,752
Bad debt
$54,743,422
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($7,572,801)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$2,389,914
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$64,496
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$2,454,410 to William A Davis

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, Ascension Seton, EIN 74-1109643, fiscal year ending 2025-06, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: ceo title multiple.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

What the system reported as total community benefit (Schedule H line 7k)$313.6M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$234.8M (75%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($54.7M) 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
Ascension Seton74-11096432025-06$3.3B$217.3M7.31%990
Ascension Providence74-11096362025-06$357.5M$14.2M4.40%990
Ascension Texas45-43642432025-06$202.8M$3.3M3.12%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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Ascension Seton: CEO pay $2.5M, charity care 6.90% of expenses