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
27
Score
Governance
50
Score
Financial
5
Score
Program
45
Score

Institutional Epochs

2010
2011
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2013
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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 — — — 27 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2022 — — — 30 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2021 — — 27.4% 31 Critical Intervention Needed Gov Risk
2020 — — 36.2% 37 Governance-Stressed Recovery
2019 — — — 29 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2018 — — 2.1% 32 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2017 — — 2.4% 38 Financially Distressed Stable Watch
2016 — — 5.5% 36 Financially Distressed Recovery
2015 — — — 39 Fragile Recovery
2014 — — — 35 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2013 — — — 43 Financially Distressed Decline Risk
2012 — — — 51 Fragile Stable Watch
2011 — — — 47 Fragile Stable Watch

Officer compensation history

Tax year 2025

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
MIKE LUCADO Board President —
ELIZABETH CONZEN ZELLNER Board Member —
KAREN CAMPBELL Board Member —
JIM ACKLEY Board Member —
KRISTA FRANCO Board Member —
JACQUIE GLANZ Board Member —
ALLISON DAUGHERTY Board Member —
TERESA HARRIS Board Member —
JONATHAN TYREE Treasurer —
STEVE WILLIS Secretary —
REID WODICKA Board Member —
HART MILAM Board Member —
BEN SMITH Board Member —
MISTY VINSON-SPITZER Board Member —
LASHANTA SMITH Board Member —
KIRK MORTENSEN Board Member —
SUE OTT ROWLANDS Board President —

Tax year 2023

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
MIKE LUCADO Board President —
ANDREW CHILDRESS Board President —
ELIZABETH CONZEN ZELLNER Treasurer —
KAREN CAMPBELL Secretary —
JIM ACKLEY Board Member —
KRISTA FRANCO Board Member —
JACKQUIE GLANZ Board President —
ALLISON DAUGHERTY Board Member —
TERESA HARRIS Board Member —
KEN HARVEY Board Member —
LONNIE HOADE Board Member —
KRIS MARCINIK Board Member —
PERRY PAYNE MILLNER Board Member —
PAT SHAHROKHI Board Member —
LASHANTA SMITH Board Member —
ROBIN STECKLEY Board Member —
JEN STATON Board Member —
STEVE WILLIS Board Member —
REID WODICKA Board President —
BEAU WRIGHT Board Member —

Tax year 2021

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
Reid Wodicka Board President —
Karen Campbell Secretary —
Liz Conzen Zellner Treasurer —
Jim Ackley Board President —
Tom Brown Board President —
Kathy Clay Board Member —
Krista Franco Board Member —
Dr Rachel Gagen Board President —
Mike Lucado Board Member —
Karen Simonton Board Member —
Cheryl Smith Board Member —
Jen Staton Board Member —
Andrew Childress Board Member —
Lonnie Hoade Board Member —
Pat Shahrokhi Board Member —
Robin Steckley Board Member —
Beau Wright Board Member —
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Score breakdown

Score breakdown

Financial resilience
5 / 100
weight 40%
Governance risk
50 / 100
weight 40%
Program scale
45 / 100
weight 20%
Overall
27 / 100
Priority Review

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

Peer comparison

Compared to 242 other orgs in VA with NTEE prefix A6.

Most-divergent component: financial score sits 48 points below the peer median (5 vs. 53).

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.