Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Michigan · Ranked 347 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Ella E M Brown Charitable Circle

Gregg Beeg, President & CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-03.

$1.2M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.17%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
336.0%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
In the most recent filing year, Gregg Beeg’s reported compensation was $1,193,790. The system’s charity care for the same year was $355,242. One person’s reported compensation was 3.4 times what the system gave to every patient who could not pay.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$208,193,299
Total expenses
$207,460,941
Net assets
$101,300,623
Employees
1,354
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$355,242
Bad debt
$13,229,152
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($8,460,625)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$961,556
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$232,234
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$1,193,790 to Gregg Beeg

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, Ella E M Brown Charitable Circle, EIN 38-1368347, fiscal year ending 2025-03, 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)$6.1M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$355,242 (6%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($13.2M) 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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Ella E M Brown Charitable Circle: CEO pay $1.2M, charity care 0.17% of expenses