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 707 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Northwestern Medical Center

Peter Wright, CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$467,038
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.47%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
66.5%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Peter Wright’s pay of $467,038 equals 66.5 percent of the $701,833 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$146,626,057
Total expenses
$148,271,216
Net assets
$138,667,076
Employees
918
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$701,833
Bad debt
$0
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($11,609,235)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$446,619
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$20,419
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$467,038 to Peter Wright

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, Northwestern Medical Center, EIN 03-0266986, 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)$14.6M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$701,833 (5%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($0) 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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Northwestern Medical Center: CEO pay $467,038, charity care 0.47% of expenses