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
32
Score
Governance
50
Score
Financial
0
Score
Program
60
Score

Institutional Epochs

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Governance Era
Trajectory Era
Structural Deficit

Historical Performance

Year Revenue Top Comp Comp % Rev Score Phase Label Outlook Details
2025 Hidden Hidden Unknown
2024 Hidden Hidden Unknown
2023 Hidden Hidden 10.6% 32 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2022 14.1% 32 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2021 13.6% 32 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2020 12.0% 32 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2019 11.2% 32 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2018 10.9% 32 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2017 10.7% 32 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2016 11.4% 32 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2015 11.8% 32 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2014 10.6% 32 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2013 9.5% 34 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2012 10.9% 32 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2011 10.8% 32 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch

Officer compensation history

Tax year 2026

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
MARIGENE KETTLER BEHRENS Executive Direc 11.1% of Rev
MARIGENE KETTLER BEHRENS Executive Direc 10.6% of Rev
GAIR MORRIS Board Member
KEMI OLATEJU Board Member
MIMI CALHOUN Board President
JOHN E FUNK Board Member
JUDITH GORMAN Secretary
BRIAN FONTANA Treasurer
IRA LIPSON Board Member
SETH PORTER Board Member
ROBERT L FELLOWS Board Member
SHANTELLE E WILLIAMS Board President
EDGAR A GUTIERREZ Board President
JAMES BIRNBAUM ESQ Board Member
MIMI CALHOUN Board President
JOHN E FUNK Board Member
KEMI OLATEJU Board Member
JUDITH GORMAN Secretary
BRIAN FONTANA Treasurer
IRA LIPSON Board Member
SETH PORTER Board Member
ROBERT L FELLOWS ESQ Board Member
SHANTELLE WILLIAMS JOHNSON Board Member

Tax year 2023

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
MARIGENE KETTLER BEHRENS Executive Direc 10.3% of Rev
EDGAR A GUTIERREZ Board President
MIMI CALHOUN Board President
JOHN E FUNK Board Member
CAROL DORNBUSH Board Member
JUDITH GORMAN Secretary
JANE C COWLES Board Member
MARIA MACARTHUR Board Member
BRIAN FONTANA Treasurer
IRA LIPSON Board Member
SETH PORTER Board Member
ROBERT L FELLOWS Board Member
SHANTELLE E WILLIAMS Board Member

Tax year 2022

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
MARIGENE KETTLER BEHRENS Executive Direc 9.8% of Rev
EDGAR A GUTIERREZ Treasurer
STEPHANIE SCHERA Board President
MIMI CALHOUN Secretary
JOHN E FUNK Board President
CAROL DORNBUSH Board Member
DENNIS FLEMING Board Member
JUDITH GORMAN Board Member
JANE C COWLES Board Member
MARIA MACARTHUR Board Member
AMY BROWN Board Member
ROBERT L FELLOWS Board Member
SHANTELLE E WILLIAMS Board Member

Tax year 2021

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
MARIGENE KETTLER BEHRENS Executive Direc 9.8% of Rev
EDGAR A GUTIERREZ Treasurer
STEPHANIE SCHERA Board President
MIMI CALHOUN Secretary
JOHN E FUNK Board President
CAROL DORNBUSH Board Member
DENNIS FLEMING Board Member
JUDITH GORMAN Board Member
JANE C COWLES Board Member
MARIA MACARTHUR Board Member
AMY BROWN Board Member
ROBERT L FELLOWS Board Member
SHANTELLE E WILLIAMS Board Member
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Score breakdown

Score breakdown

Financial resilience
0 / 100
weight 40%
Governance risk
50 / 100
weight 40%
Program scale
60 / 100
weight 20%
Overall
32 / 100
Priority Review

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

Peer comparison

Compared to 699 other orgs in NY with NTEE prefix A6.

Most-divergent component: financial score sits 31 points below the peer median (0 vs. 31).

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).

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