Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Massachusetts · Ranked 89 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Children's Hospital

Kevin Churchwell MD, Chief Executive Officer. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$3.5M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.48%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
20.5%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Kevin Churchwell MD’s pay of $3,490,323 equals 20.5 percent of the $17,042,300 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$3,588,588,824
Total expenses
$3,527,089,859
Net assets
$5,632,387,615
Employees
18,275
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$17,042,300
Bad debt
$5,170,388
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
$3,644,025
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$3,311,889
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$178,434
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$3,490,323 to Kevin Churchwell MD

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 04-2774441, fiscal year ending 2025-09, 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)$421.7M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$17.0M (4%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($5.2M) 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: CEO pay $3.5M, charity care 0.48% of expenses