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 81 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Scripps Health

Christopher Van Gorder, President / CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$3.7M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.40%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
19.8%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Christopher Van Gorder’s pay of $3,689,779 equals 19.8 percent of the $18,663,224 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

Also listed with a chief executive title in the same filings: Carl Etter, Corp Sr VP, Region Chief Exec, $1,778,371; Thomas Gammiere, Corp Sr VP, Region Chief Exec, $1,086,950. Where a chief executive retired during the year, the filing reports the final-year payout.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$5,134,555,653
Total expenses
$4,695,662,360
Net assets
$6,722,929,644
Employees
20,217
Hospitals covered
5 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$18,663,224
Bad debt
$78,414,318
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($139,848,448)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$3,631,482
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$58,297
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$3,689,779 to Christopher Van Gorder

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, Scripps Health, EIN 95-1684089, 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)$304.8M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$18.7M (6%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($78.4M) 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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Scripps Health: CEO pay $3.7M, charity care 0.40% of expenses