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 648 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Benjamin Ebert MD PhD, Trustee, President, & CEO (As Of 10/1/24). Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$531,515
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.37%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
3.7%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

The chief executive's title on the filing indicates a change during the year (TRUSTEE, PRESIDENT, & CEO (AS OF 10/1/24)); the pay shown is what the filing reports for that person, which may cover part of the year.

Also listed with a chief executive title in the same filings: Laurie H Glimcher MD, President & CEO Emerita, $2,679,650. Where a chief executive retired during the year, the filing reports the final-year payout.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$3,917,771,259
Total expenses
$3,825,086,627
Net assets
$4,483,632,272
Employees
9,731
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$14,237,969
Bad debt
$1,646,424
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($85,990,129)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$468,091
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$63,424
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$531,515 to Benjamin Ebert MD PhD

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, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, EIN 04-2263040, 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)$307.4M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$14.2M (5%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($1.6M) 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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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute: CEO pay $531,515, charity care 0.37% of expenses