Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

North Dakota · Ranked 423 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Trinity Health & Affiliates

John Kutch, President & CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$993,900
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.99%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
25.6%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
John Kutch’s pay of $993,900 equals 25.6 percent of the $3,881,797 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

Most of the reported compensation ($961,951 of $993,900) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$385,754,703
Total expenses
$392,290,144
Net assets
$291,428,736
Employees
0
Hospitals covered
3 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$3,881,797
Bad debt
$18,341,568
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($27,985,385)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$961,951
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$31,949
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$993,900 to John Kutch

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, Trinity Health & Affiliates, EIN 33-1007002, fiscal year ending 2025-06, 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)$6.2M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$3.9M (63%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($18.3M) 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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Trinity Health & Affiliates: CEO pay $993,900, charity care 0.99% of expenses