Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Georgia · Ranked 103 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

Donna Hyland, Trustee - Sys/Mac/Fdn/Hsoc. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$3.0M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
3.12%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
3.9%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Most of the reported compensation ($2,492,426 of $3,008,349) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$2,772,950,050
Total expenses
$2,479,621,994
Net assets
$6,878,748,001
Employees
0
Hospitals covered
2 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$77,472,590
Bad debt
$48,863,259
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($674,201)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$2,492,426
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$515,923
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$3,008,349 to Donna Hyland

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, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, EIN 90-0779996, fiscal year ending 2024-12, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: manual override.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

What the system reported as total community benefit (Schedule H line 7k)$520.9M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$77.5M (15%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($48.9M) 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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Children's Healthcare of Atlanta: CEO pay $3.0M, charity care 3.12% of expenses