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 115 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Sharp Memorial Hospital

Christopher D Howard, President & CEO Shc. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$2.8M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.83%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
9.3%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Most of the reported compensation ($2,732,110 of $2,750,617) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

Also listed with a chief executive title in the same filings: William S Evans, SVP Market CEO, $1,305,353; Patricia Khaleghi, SVP Market CEO, $1,277,996. Where a chief executive retired during the year, the filing reports the final-year payout.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$3,695,897,421
Total expenses
$3,558,372,062
Net assets
$6,250,321,487
Employees
15,416
Hospitals covered
7 facilities across 4 filings
Charity care, net
$29,582,791
Bad debt
$92,534,743
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($80,348,603)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$2,732,110
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$18,507
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$2,750,617 to Christopher D Howard

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, Sharp Memorial Hospital, EIN 95-3782169, fiscal year ending 2025-09, 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)$254.3M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$29.6M (12%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($92.5M) 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
Sharp Memorial Hospital95-37821692025-09$1.7B$10.7M0.69%990
Grossmont Hospital Corporation33-04495272025-09$1.1B$7.9M0.70%990
Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center95-23673042025-09$714.8M$9.6M1.37%990
Sharp Coronado Hospital & Healthcare Center95-06515792025-09$195.3M$1.4M0.77%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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Sharp Memorial Hospital: CEO pay $2.8M, charity care 0.83% of expenses