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 275 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Columbia St Mary's Hospital Milwaukee

Daniel W Jackson, Ex-Officio/CEO, Ministry Market Executive. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$1.5M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.70%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
4.5%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Most of the reported compensation ($1,453,582 of $1,502,128) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$1,870,674,165
Total expenses
$1,970,161,054
Net assets
−$196,882,207
Employees
9,665
Hospitals covered
15 facilities across 8 filings
Charity care, net
$33,494,529
Bad debt
$24,096,336
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($17,641,087)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$1,453,582
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$48,546
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$1,502,128 to Daniel W Jackson

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 St Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, EIN 39-0806315, 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)$178.2M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$33.5M (19%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($24.1M) and Medicare shortfall are reported separately by the IRS and are not community benefit on the form.

§3Filings in this system

Filing entityEINFY endRevenueCharity care% of expensesFiling
Columbia St Mary's Hospital Milwaukee Inc39-08063152025-06$724.0M$7.8M0.96%990
Ascension Se Wisconsin Hospital Inc39-08168572025-06$400.5M$8.1M1.95%990
Ascension All Saints Hospital Inc39-12649862025-06$355.0M$10.0M2.86%990
Columbia St Mary's Inc39-18346392025-06$183.1M$9,8430.00%990
Ascension St Francis Hospital Inc39-09077402025-06$128.4M$7.3M5.40%990
Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare - Southeast Wisconsin Inc39-15688652025-06$37.0M$00.00%990
Ascension Calumet Hospital Inc39-09053852025-06$32.3M$174,2500.60%990
Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Institute Inc39-09021992025-06$10.3M$114,0531.32%990

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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Columbia St Mary's Hospital Milwaukee: CEO pay $1.5M, charity care 1.70% of expenses