Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Wisconsin · Ranked 122 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Children's Hospital of Wisconsin

Margaret Troy, Director/President And CEO Chhs. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$2.7M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.40%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
67.7%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Margaret Troy’s pay of $2,658,331 equals 67.7 percent of the $3,928,866 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

Most of the reported compensation ($2,589,483 of $2,658,331) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$1,016,508,622
Total expenses
$971,118,396
Net assets
$1,965,801,644
Employees
0
Hospitals covered
2 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$3,928,866
Bad debt
$10,275,060
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($672,387)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$2,589,483
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$68,848
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$2,658,331 to Margaret Troy

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 of Wisconsin, EIN 39-0812532, 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)$178.2M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$3.9M (2%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($10.3M) 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 of Wisconsin: CEO pay $2.7M, charity care 0.40% of expenses