Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

California · Ranked 484 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation

Joseph Lee, President And CEO. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$844,704
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.91%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
18.5%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Joseph Lee’s pay of $844,704 equals 18.5 percent of the $4,573,571 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$228,065,016
Total expenses
$239,112,218
Net assets
$349,583,123
Employees
1,876
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$4,573,571
Bad debt
$6,144,135
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$799,604
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$45,100
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$844,704 to Joseph Lee

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, Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, EIN 41-0682405, fiscal year ending 2024-12, 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)$9.9M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$4.6M (46%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($6.1M) 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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Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation: CEO pay $844,704, charity care 1.91% of expenses