Compensation Escalation Cycle
Compensation Escalation Cycle
Compensation Escalation Cycle Market Archetype Mechanical Natural
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Compensation Escalation Cycle

What does this mean?

Revenue grows modestly, but top officer compensation grows consistently for 5 years, breaching danger zones. The executive is negotiating aggressive raises against a compliant board.

The Path Forward

The Steward

Re-establishes board supremacy over executive extraction. It freezes compensation and mandates that all future financial rewards be tied strictly to verifiable mission expansion.

The Steward
The Steward
Institutional Health Scores
5-yr trend: Compensation Escalation Cycle
Overall
38
Score
Governance
42
Score
Financial
30
Score
Program
45
Score

Institutional Epochs

2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
Financial Era
Governance Era
Trajectory Era
Compensation Escalation

Historical Performance

Year Revenue Top Comp Comp % Rev Score Phase Label Outlook Details
2025 Hidden Hidden Unknown
2024 Hidden Hidden 34.9% 38 Critical Intervention Needed Gov Risk
2023 45 Fragile Stable Watch
2022 45 Fragile Recovery
2021 21.8% 47 Fragile Recovery
2020 19.3% 37 Fragile Recovery
2019 23.5% 29 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2018 28.1% 28 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2017 23.5% 33 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2016 22.7% 33 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2015 28.9% 24 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2014 24.4% 33 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2013 31 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2012 39 Fragile Recovery
2011 29 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch

Officer compensation history

Tax year 2025

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
HANNAH COLLINS Executive Director Hidden
BRIDGET BRAZEAU Executive Director Hidden
THOMAS SHELDON MD Board Member
CASSANDRA LING Board President
JEAN BAE Secretary
READ PUKKILA-WORLEY MD Board Member
STACIE LIN Board Member
EMMA DOGGETT Board President
YVONNE SIN ALBERTS Treasurer
RICH PARKER MD Board Member
REBECCA KIM Board Member

Tax year 2023

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
BRIDGET E BRAZEAU Executive Director Hidden
BRIDGET E BRAZEAU Executive Director Hidden
THOMAS SHELDON MD Board Member
MICHAEL BARNETT MD CHAIRMAN
JEAN BAE Board Member
READ PUKKILA-WORLEY MD Board Member
APARNA CHANDRASEKHAR Board Member
CASSANDRA LING Board Member
STACIE LIN Board Member
JUDITH BARR SCD MED Board Member
EMMA DOGGETT Board President
YVONNE SIN ALBERTS Treasurer
RICH PARKER MD Board Member
THOMAS SHELDON MD Board Member
MICHAEL BARNETT MD CHAIRMAN
RAMONA NEE JD Secretary
READ PUKKILA-WORLEY Board Member
APARNA CHANDRASEKHAR Board Member
CASSANDRA LING Board Member
GRIFFIN KEADY Board Member
PAUL SILVER Board Member
LAURA JACOX DMD PHD Secretary
JUDITH BARR SCD MED Board Member
EMMA DOGGETT Board President
YVONNE SIN ALBERTS Treasurer
RICH PARKER Board Member

Tax year 2021

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
BRIDGET E BRAZEAU Executive Director Hidden
THOMAS SHELDON MD Board Member
MICHAEL BARNETT MD CHAIRMAN
RAMONA NEE JD Secretary
READ PUKKILA-WORLEY Board Member
APARNA CHANDRASEKHAR Board Member
CASSANDRA LING Board Member
GRIFFIN KEADY Board Member
PAUL SILVER Board Member
LAURA JACOX DMD PHD Secretary
JUDITH BARR SCD MED Board Member
EMMA DOGGETT Board President
YVONNE SIN ALBERTS Treasurer
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Score breakdown

Score breakdown

Financial resilience
30 / 100
weight 40%
Governance risk
42 / 100
weight 40%
Program scale
45 / 100
weight 20%
Overall
38 / 100
Priority Review

The three components combine into a single 0–100 score weighted as shown. Full methodology →

Peer comparison

Compared to 245 other orgs in MA with NTEE prefix A6.

Most-divergent component: program score sits 16 points above the peer median (45 vs. 29).

5-year trend: Compensation Escalation Cycle

Revenue grows modestly, but top officer compensation grows consistently for 5 years, breaching danger zones. The executive is negotiating aggressive raises against a compliant board.

What's driving this score

What would change this score

The two changes that would most improve this score:

  1. Reduce top-officer compensation from 34.9% to under 22% of revenue — would move governance score by ~26 points.
  2. Separate signing authority from fundraising authority when both are held by one person — removes the concentration penalty (~12 points).

Improving governance is a board decision. These are the levers.