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Children's Hospital

Michelle Riley-Brown, President/CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$2.6M

CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F

0.50%

of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a

29.9%

CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Michelle Riley-Brown’s pay of $2,644,721 equals 29.9 percent of the $8,848,496 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue: $1,872,813,787
Total expenses: $1,777,542,451
Net assets: $1,099,095,514
Employees: 10,034
Hospitals covered: 1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net: $8,848,496
Bad debt: $22,854,768
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed: ($557,326)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D): $2,377,608
From related organizations (col. E): $0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F): $267,113
CEO total compensation (D+E+F): $2,644,721 to Michelle Riley-Brown

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 Hospital, EIN 53-0196580, 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)$137.9M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$8.8M (6%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($22.9M) 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 Hospital reported $2,644,721 in compensation for chief executive Michelle Riley-Brown in the fiscal year ending 2025-06. It spent 0.50% of expenses on charity care, $8,848,496. Source: its own IRS Form 990. https://everythingisbroken.org/reports/hospital-ceo-pay/system/children-s-hospital-53-0196580.html