Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Oregon · Ranked 460 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Columbia Lutheran Charities

Erik Thorsen, CEO. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$906,561
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.25%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
162.8%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
In the most recent filing year, Erik Thorsen’s reported compensation was $906,561. The system’s charity care for the same year was $556,749. One person’s reported compensation was 1.6 times what the system gave to every patient who could not pay.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$257,144,254
Total expenses
$225,913,215
Net assets
$236,664,397
Employees
938
Hospitals covered
3 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$556,749
Bad debt
$3,910,903
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
$21,711,737
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$849,421
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$57,140
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$906,561 to Erik Thorsen

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, Columbia Lutheran Charities, EIN 93-0583856, fiscal year ending 2024-12, 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)$7.6M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$556,749 (7%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($3.9M) 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.

§Share

Columbia Lutheran Charities: CEO pay $906,561, charity care 0.25% of expenses