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 127 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Rady Children's Hospital San Diego

Patrick Frias MD, President & CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$2.6M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.19%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
42.1%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Patrick Frias MD’s pay of $2,563,540 equals 42.1 percent of the $6,095,205 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

Also listed with a chief executive title in the same filings: Kimberly Cripe, Co-President & CEO, $2,444,654. Where a chief executive retired during the year, the filing reports the final-year payout.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$3,564,625,653
Total expenses
$3,272,107,706
Net assets
$2,049,674,691
Employees
13,263
Hospitals covered
3 facilities across 3 filings
Charity care, net
$6,095,205
Bad debt
$61,952,545
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($1,253,537)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$2,518,676
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$44,864
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$2,563,540 to Patrick Frias MD

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, Rady Children's Hospital San Diego, EIN 95-1691313, fiscal year ending 2025-06, 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)$462.2M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$6.1M (1%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($62.0M) 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
Rady Children's Hospital San Diego95-16913132025-06$1.8B$5.8M0.34%990
Children's Hospital of Orange County95-23217862025-06$1.7B$235,1250.02%990
Children's Hospital at Mission33-05288022025-06$114.9M$48,7230.06%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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Rady Children's Hospital San Diego: CEO pay $2.6M, charity care 0.19% of expenses