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
2012
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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 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 146 other orgs in VA with NTEE prefix A6.

Most-divergent component: financial score sits 31 points below the peer median (5 vs. 36).

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.