Structural Deficit
Structural Deficit
Structural Deficit Market Archetype Mechanical Natural
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Structural Deficit

What does this mean?

Persistently low financial health over 5 years despite strong programmatic output. They are borrowing from their future (or bleeding an endowment) to pay for today's programs.

The Path Forward

The Truth-Teller

Forces necessary, painful cuts to preserve the core. It demands that the organization stop borrowing from its future and align its current programmatic output with actual sustainable revenue.

The Truth-Teller
The Truth-Teller
Institutional Health Scores
5-yr trend: Structural Deficit
Overall
37
Score
Governance
50
Score
Financial
15
Score
Program
60
Score

Institutional Epochs

2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
Financial Era
Governance Era
Trajectory Era
Structural Deficit

Historical Performance

Year Revenue Top Comp Comp % Rev Score Phase Label Outlook Details
2024 Hidden Hidden Unknown
2023 Hidden Hidden 37 Financially Distressed Recovery
2022 15.3% 35 Financially Distressed Recovery
2021 21.4% 27 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2020 22.1% 25 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2019 12.9% 35 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2018 10.3% 33 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2017 29 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2016 3.2% 32 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2015 16.4% 24 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2014 17.3% 24 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2013 12.8% 29 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2012 3.5% 32 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2011 15.5% 27 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch

Officer compensation history

Tax year 2025

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
SYLVIA MALLOY Board Member
MARY LOU MALONEY VICE-PRESIDE
KATIE MANNING Board Member
TIM MCCARTHY Board Member
JEFFREY MITCHELL Treasurer
MEGHAN O'DONNELL Board Member
MARIETTA PHINNEY FOUNDING DIR
HEATHER SHAW Board Member
LYNDA-LEE SHERIDAN Board Member
LEROY STREAT Board Member
JEANNIE UHRMANN Board Member
JOANNA WEISS Board Member
SCOTT J BATEY Board Member
GERRY BRIEN Board Member
LUCILLE DIGRAVIO Secretary
TRICIA DIMARTINIS Board Member
GAIL FORREST Board Member
ROBERT GALLAGHER Board Member
SILVIA GONZALEZ-POWERS Board President
TRACEY HOWARD Board Member

Tax year 2023

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
PAUL J TERRANOVA EXECUTIVE DI Hidden
MARIETTA PHINNEY FOUNDING DIR Hidden
SCOTT J BATEY Board Member
LUCILLE DIGRAVIO Secretary
TRICIA DIMARTINIS Board Member
GAIL FORREST Board Member
ROBERT GALLAGHER Board Member
SILVIA GONZALEZ-POWERS Board President
TRACEY HOWARD Board Member
SYLVIA MALLOY Board Member
MARY LOU MALONEY VICE-PRESIDE
KATIE MANNING Board Member
TIM MCCARTHY Board Member
JEFFREY MITCHELL Treasurer
HEATHER SHAW Board Member
LEROY STREAT Board Member
JEANNIE UHRMANN Board Member
JOANNA WEISS Board Member

Tax year 2022

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
PAUL J TERRANOVA EXECUTIVE DI Hidden
MARIETTA PHINNEY FOUNDING DIR Hidden
SCOTT J BATEY Board Member
LUCILLE DIGRAVIO Secretary
TRICIA DIMARTINIS Board Member
GAIL FORREST Board Member
ROBERT GALLAGHER Board Member
SILVIA GONZALEZ-POWERS Board President
TRACEY HOWARD Board Member
SYLVIA MALLOY Board Member
MARY LOU MALONEY VICE-PRESIDE
KATIE MANNING Board Member
TIM MCCARTHY Board Member
JEFFREY MITCHELL Treasurer
HEATHER SHAW Board Member
LEROY STREAT Board Member
JEANNIE UHRMANN Board Member
JOANNA WEISS Board Member

Tax year 2021

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
PAUL J TERRANOVA EXECUTIVE DI Hidden
MARIETTA PHINNEY FOUNDING DIR Hidden
SCOTT J BATEY Board Member
GERRY BRIEN Board Member
MICHAEL CASSIDY Board Member
KRISTEN DEMBOWSKI Board President
LUCILLE DIGRAVIO Secretary
TRICIA DIMARTINIS Board Member
CAITLIN DUTKIEWICZ Board Member
GAIL FORREST Board Member
ROBERT GALLAGHER Board Member
SILVIA GONZALEZ-POWERS Board Member
TRACEY HOWARD Board Member
SYLVIA MALLOY Board Member
MARY LOU MALONEY VICE-PRESIDE
KATIE MANNING Board Member
TIM MCCARTHY Board Member
JEFFREY MITCHELL Board Member
HEATHER SHAW Board Member
JEANNIE UHRMANN Board Member
JOANNA WEISS Board Member
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Score breakdown

Score breakdown

Financial resilience
15 / 100
weight 40%
Governance risk
50 / 100
weight 40%
Program scale
60 / 100
weight 20%
Overall
37 / 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 31 points above the peer median (60 vs. 29).

5-year trend: Structural Deficit

Persistently low financial health over 5 years despite strong programmatic output. They are borrowing from their future (or bleeding an endowment) to pay for today's programs.

What's driving this score

What would change this score

The two changes that would most improve this score:

  1. Build cash reserves to at least 3 months of operating expenses — moves financial resilience score meaningfully (~10 points).
  2. Stabilize program expenses or grow earned-income revenue to break the consecutive-deficit pattern (~8 points to financial score).

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