Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Ohio · Ranked 177 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Dayton Children's Hospital

Deborah Feldman, CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$2.1M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.56%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
57.0%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Deborah Feldman’s pay of $2,091,992 equals 57.0 percent of the $3,672,452 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$825,137,568
Total expenses
$661,481,132
Net assets
$1,524,649,789
Employees
4,530
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$3,672,452
Bad debt
$8,229,039
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$1,684,727
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$407,265
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$2,091,992 to Deborah Feldman

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, Dayton Children's Hospital, EIN 31-0672132, 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)$95.0M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$3.7M (4%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($8.2M) 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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Dayton Children's Hospital: CEO pay $2.1M, charity care 0.56% of expenses