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
29
Score
Governance
45
Score
Financial
0
Score
Program
60
Score

Institutional Epochs

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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 17.6% 29 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2022 — — 18.2% 29 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2021 — — 11.4% 31 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2020 — — 10.2% 31 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2019 — — 16.4% 29 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2018 — — 13.6% 31 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2017 — — 15.6% 29 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2016 — — 8.0% 38 Fragile Recovery
2015 — — 15.3% 27 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2014 — — 12.4% 29 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2013 — — 8.2% 32 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2012 — — 7.2% 34 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2011 — — 7.2% 46 Financially Distressed Stable Watch

Officer compensation history

Tax year 2025

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
Stephanie Knittel Rynkowski Board President —
Katherine Rogala Board President —
Thomas Rodriguez Board President —
Renee Segina Moore Treasurer —
Thomas Rhett Pinckney Secretary —
Daniel Barney Board Member —
Jennifer Juncosa Board Member —
Katherine Phelps Board Member —
Jill Zabinski-Berne Board Member —

Tax year 2023

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
ROBERT GARDNER Artistic Director 9.1% of Rev
RACHAEL CINERNIAKOSKI Board Member 2.0% of Rev
JIM HANSEN Secretary —
KATHERINE ROGALA Secretary —
MELISSA JACOBS Board Member —
TERRY KELLEY JR Board Member —
WILLIAM J SHEERAN Board Member —
JOHN KLIBANOFF MD Board Member —
JEAN CLOSE Board Member —
KATHERINE PHELPS Board Member —
STEPHANIE KNITTEL RYNKOWSKI Board President —
BRANDON COYLE Board Member —
ERIN LEMCKE-BERNO Board Member —
SAMANTHA PARISI Board Member —
STEFANIE SYDELNIK Board Member —
ERIN CREGAN Treasurer —
SARAH TURNER Board Member —
THOMAS RHETT PINCKNEY Board Member —
BRENEE BUNCE Board President —

Tax year 2022

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
ROBERT GARDNER Artistic Director 8.6% of Rev
JIM HANSEN Secretary —
KATHERINE ROGALA Secretary —
MELISSA JACOBS Board Member —
TERRY KELLEY JR Board Member —
WILLIAM J SHEERAN Board Member —
JOHN KLIBANOFF MD Board President —
NANCY BOND Board Member —
JEAN CLOSE Board Member —
PAUL R FOX Board Member —
KATHERINE PHELPS Board President —
STEPHANIE KNITTEL RYNKOWSKI Board Member —
BRANDON COYLE Board Member —
ERIN LEMCKE-BERNO Board Member —
SAMANTHA PARISI Board Member —
STEFANIE SYDELNIK Board Member —
ERIN CREGAN Treasurer —

Tax year 2021

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
NICHOLE GANTSHAR Executive Director 9.0% of Rev
DAVID PALMER Artistic Director 8.7% of Rev
JIM HANSEN Secretary —
KATHERINE ROGALA Secretary —
MELISSA JACOBS Board Member —
TERRY KELLEY JR Board Member —
MEGHAN MCGUIRE Board President —
KEN YARTZ Board President —
WILLIAM J SHEERAN Board Member —
JOHN KLIBANOFF MD Board President —
NANCY BOND Board Member —
JEAN CLOSE Board Member —
PAUL R FOX Board Member —
KATHERINEE PHELPS Board President —
STEPHANIE KNITTEL RYNKOWSKI Board Member —
BRANDON COYLE Board Member —
ERIN LEMCKE-BERNO Board Member —
SAMANTHA PARISI Board Member —
STEFANIE SEPANIK Board Member —
ROBERT GARDNER Artistic Director —
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Score breakdown

Score breakdown

Financial resilience
0 / 100
weight 40%
Governance risk
45 / 100
weight 40%
Program scale
60 / 100
weight 20%
Overall
29 / 100
Priority Review

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

Peer comparison

Compared to 1,227 other orgs in NY with NTEE prefix A6.

Most-divergent component: financial score sits 52 points below the peer median (0 vs. 52).

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. Separate signing authority from fundraising authority when both are held by one person — removes the concentration penalty (~12 points).
  2. 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.