Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Kansas · Ranked 871 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Great Plains of Republic Co

Curt Colson, President/CEO/Director. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$284,684
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.41%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
64.3%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Curt Colson’s pay of $284,684 equals 64.3 percent of the $442,606 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

Most of the reported compensation ($227,653 of $284,684) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$109,311,055
Total expenses
$108,438,622
Net assets
$44,685,443
Employees
894
Hospitals covered
5 facilities across 5 filings
Charity care, net
$442,606
Bad debt
$3,101,835
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($556,013)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$227,653
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$57,031
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$284,684 to Curt Colson

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, Great Plains of Republic Co, EIN 48-1226977, 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)$4.1M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$442,606 (11%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($3.1M) 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
Great Plains of Republic Co Inc48-12269772025-09$30.3M$164,7890.56%990
Great Plains of Smith Co Inc48-12268302025-03$26.9M$88,2600.32%990
Great Plains of Sabetha Inc48-12361562024-12$22.5M$75,8770.35%990
Great Plains of Ellinwood Inc48-12269762025-09$17.7M$26,4970.16%990
Great Plains of Ottawa Co Inc48-12268562025-09$11.8M$87,1830.74%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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Great Plains of Republic Co: CEO pay $284,684, charity care 0.41% of expenses