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 147 of 1033 by CEO pay.

The Carle Foundation Hospital

James C Leonard MD, Ex-Officio, Officer - President & CEO. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$2.3M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.06%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
9.4%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Most of the reported compensation ($2,298,226 of $2,348,482) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$2,709,126,183
Total expenses
$2,374,535,544
Net assets
$814,774,010
Employees
12,629
Hospitals covered
8 facilities across 8 filings
Charity care, net
$25,072,799
Bad debt
$29,755,298
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
$54,614,690
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$2,298,226
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$50,256
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$2,348,482 to James C Leonard 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, The Carle Foundation Hospital, EIN 37-1119538, fiscal year ending 2024-12, 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)$154.1M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$25.1M (16%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($29.8M) 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
The Carle Foundation Hospital37-11195382024-12$1.5B$18.1M1.52%990
Methodist Medical Center of Illinois37-06612232024-12$498.0M$572,4750.10%990
Carle Bromenn Medical Center85-06823632024-12$267.4M$2.7M1.09%990
Proctor Hospital37-06815402024-12$172.2M$233,6900.16%990
Hoopeston Community Memorial Hospital36-36374652024-12$79.0M$2.0M2.50%990
Richland Memorial Hospital37-13630012024-12$75.1M$1.1M1.42%990
Pekin Memorial Hospital37-06923512024-12$60.6M$118,8150.20%990
Carle Eureka Hospital85-06883062024-12$31.3M$321,7281.08%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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The Carle Foundation Hospital: CEO pay $2.3M, charity care 1.06% of expenses