Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Vermont · Ranked 735 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Gifford Medical Center

Daniel Bennett, Past President & CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$438,236
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.27%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
42.4%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Daniel Bennett’s pay of $438,236 equals 42.4 percent of the $1,033,868 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$86,130,283
Total expenses
$81,624,044
Net assets
$69,792,718
Employees
484
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$1,033,868
Bad debt
$3,996,434
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($1,783,546)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$390,225
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$48,011
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$438,236 to Daniel Bennett

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, Gifford Medical Center, EIN 03-0179418, fiscal year ending 2025-09, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: ceo title multiple.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

What the system reported as total community benefit (Schedule H line 7k)$5.7M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$1.0M (18%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($4.0M) 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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Gifford Medical Center: CEO pay $438,236, charity care 1.27% of expenses