Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Vermont · Ranked 778 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Brattleboro Retreat

Steven Cummings, President/CEO. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$385,217
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
4.32%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
9.4%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

§1The filing

Total revenue
$95,491,178
Total expenses
$94,402,622
Net assets
$41,014,325
Employees
657
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$4,081,346
Bad debt
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($5,932,378)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$364,588
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$20,629
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$385,217 to Steven Cummings

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, Brattleboro Retreat, EIN 03-0107360, fiscal year ending 2024-12, 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)$7.9M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$4.1M (52%)

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

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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Brattleboro Retreat: CEO pay $385,217, charity care 4.32% of expenses