Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Illinois · Ranked 150 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Presence Chicago Hospitals Network

Polly Davenport, Director/President & CEO, Ascension Illinois. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$2.3M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.65%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
5.3%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Most of the reported compensation ($2,266,027 of $2,317,987) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$1,757,731,602
Total expenses
$2,650,639,252
Net assets
$396,303,048
Employees
0
Hospitals covered
13 facilities across 5 filings
Charity care, net
$43,791,855
Bad debt
$16,604,214
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($72,345,884)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$2,266,027
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$51,960
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$2,317,987 to Polly Davenport

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, Presence Chicago Hospitals Network, EIN 36-2235165, fiscal year ending 2025-06, 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)$326.7M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$43.8M (13%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($16.6M) 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
Presence Chicago Hospitals Network36-22351652025-06$562.3M$13.0M1.31%990
Alexian Brothers Medical Center36-25963812025-06$475.1M$6.1M1.18%990
St Alexius Medical Center36-42518462025-06$389.3M$5.6M1.33%990
Presence Central and Suburban Hospitals Network36-41951262025-06$256.0M$18.6M2.99%990
Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital36-42518482025-06$75.1M$526,2390.54%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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Presence Chicago Hospitals Network: CEO pay $2.3M, charity care 1.65% of expenses