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
34
Score
Governance
50
Score
Financial
5
Score
Program
60
Score

Institutional Epochs

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 Unknown
2022 12.2% 38 Fragile Recovery
2021 12.5% 32 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2020 40.1% 33 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2019 12.4% 42 Fragile Recovery
2018 21.1% 29 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2017 38 Financially Distressed Stable Watch
2016 35 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2015 35 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2014 35 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch

Officer compensation history

Tax year 2025

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
MELISSA DINUNNO Executive Director 7.7% of Rev
JEFF DORNENBURG Board President
PING HSIEH Board President
ANDY ESTELL Treasurer
JOE CAMPOLIETA Secretary
LYNNE ADAME Secretary
JUNE ARCHER Board Member
CATHERINE BARNARD Board Member
KRIS BARNETT Board Member
LEE BURRUS Board Member
BILL CLEGG Board Member
MIKE DOYLE Board Member
CHUCK FORD Board Member
MIKE GARCEAU Board Member
ROBERT HENSLEY Board Member
LIZ KEPPEL Board Member
DAVID RYAN Board Member
JACK SENNOTT Board Member
LALITHA SHIVASWAMY Board Member
JEFF VERNEY Board Member
MICHAELYNN WARE Board Member
EMILY WOOD Board President

Tax year 2023

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
MELISSA DINUNNO Executive Director 11.9% of Rev
LINDA SCHOFIELD Board President
ANDY ESTELL Treasurer
CATHERINE BARNARD Secretary
JEFF DORNENBURG Board President
LYNNE ADAME Board Member
JUNE ARCHER Board Member
KRIS BARNETT Board Member
LEE BURRUS Board Member
JOE CAMPOLIETA Board Member
BILL CLEGG Board Member
MIKE DOYLE Board Member
CHUCK FORD Board Member
ROBERT HENSLEY Board Member
PING HSIEH Board Member
MICHAEL HESSION Board Member
FERGUSON JANSEN Board Member
ANNIE LAZARUS Board Member
DAVE RYAN Board Member
GARY SCHLESS Board Member
MICHAELYNN WARE Board Member

Tax year 2022

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
MELISSA DINUNNO Executive Director 11.9% of Rev
LINDA SCHOFIELD Board President
ANDY ESTELL Treasurer
CATHERINE BARNARD Secretary
JEFF DORNENBURG Board President
MARTIN GEITZ Board President
LYNNE ADAME Board Member
JUNE ARCHER Board Member
KRIS BARNETT Board Member
LEE BURRUS Board Member
JOE CAMPOLIETA Board Member
BILL CLEGG Board Member
MIKE DOYLE Board Member
CHUCK FORD Board Member
TONY HEALY Board Member
ROBERT HENSLEY Board Member
PING HSIEH Board Member
MICHAEL HESSION Board Member
JAVON JACKSON Board Member
FERGUSON JANSEN Board Member
ANNIE LAZARUS Board Member
DAVE RYAN Board Member
GARY SCHLESS Board Member

Tax year 2021

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
MELISSA DINUNNO Executive Director 11.7% of Rev
ROBERT HENSLEY Board President
LINDA SCHOFIELD Board President
ANDY ESTELL Treasurer
CATHERINE BARNARD Secretary
JEFF DORNENBURG Board President
MARTIN GEITZ Board President
LYNNE ADAME Board Member
LEE BURRUS Board Member
JOE CAMPOLIETA Board Member
BILL CLEGG Board Member
MIKE DOYLE Board Member
CHUCK FORD Board Member
TONY HEALY Board Member
JAVON JACKSON Board Member
FERGUSON JANSEN Board Member
ANNIE LAZARUS Board Member
GREGORY PIECUCH Board Member
DAVE RYAN Board Member
GARY SCHLESS Board Member
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Score breakdown

Score breakdown

Financial resilience
5 / 100
weight 40%
Governance risk
50 / 100
weight 40%
Program scale
60 / 100
weight 20%
Overall
34 / 100
Priority Review

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

Peer comparison

Fewer than 3 peers found in CT for this NTEE subcategory; peer comparison would not be statistically meaningful.

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.