Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

New York · Ranked 71 of 1033 by CEO pay.

The Rochester General Hospital

Richard Davis PhD, CEO. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$4.0M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.93%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
12.9%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Most of the reported compensation ($3,016,542 of $4,013,008) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$3,403,813,364
Total expenses
$3,353,571,213
Net assets
$1,425,981,365
Employees
19,793
Hospitals covered
8 facilities across 8 filings
Charity care, net
$31,161,771
Bad debt
$21,820,967
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($99,098,365)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$933,691
From related organizations (col. E)
$3,016,542
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$62,775
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$4,013,008 to Richard Davis PhD

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 Rochester General Hospital, EIN 16-0743134, 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)$533.3M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$31.2M (6%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($21.8M) 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 Rochester General Hospital16-07431342024-12$1.7B$15.0M0.86%990
The Unity Hospital of Rochester23-72217632024-12$717.2M$7.3M0.99%990
Canton-Potsdam Hospital16-10126912024-12$385.7M$2.7M0.83%990
United Memorial Medical Center16-07430292024-12$180.1M$1.8M1.07%990
Clifton Springs Sanitarium Co16-07439662024-12$140.3M$2.0M1.48%990
Newark-Wayne Community Hospital15-05841882024-12$127.7M$1.9M1.48%990
Massena Hospital Inc84-31342682024-12$74.1M$116,1430.17%990
Gouverneur Hospital46-42495552024-12$36.0M$455,2221.33%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 Rochester General Hospital: CEO pay $4.0M, charity care 0.93% of expenses