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
42
Score
Financial
30
Score
Program
45
Score

Institutional Epochs

2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
Financial Era
Governance Era
Trajectory Era
Structural Deficit

Historical Performance

Year Revenue Top Comp Comp % Rev Score Phase Label Outlook Details
2025 Hidden Hidden Unknown
2024 37.2% 34 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2023 37.4% 30 Critical Intervention Needed Gov Risk
2022 17.2% 41 Fragile Recovery
2021 46.5% 19 Critical Intervention Needed Gov Risk
2020 24.0% 29 Critical Intervention Needed Gov Risk
2019 22.6% 29 Critical Intervention Needed Gov Risk
2018 22.3% 29 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2017 19.9% 27 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2016 15.7% 27 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2015 14.5% 33 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2014 16.2% 29 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2013 22.4% 24 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2012 13.3% 35 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2011 17.6% 27 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch

Officer compensation history

Tax year 2025

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
Marc Edson Executive Dir. 27.6% of Rev
Randy Ross Board Member 6.3% of Rev
Christi Harrington Board Member 1.7% of Rev
Kathy Edson Board Member 1.3% of Rev
Kasandra Partain Board President 0.2% of Rev
Sandy Huseth Board Member
Lisa Saldano Board Member
Byron McLaughlin Board Member
Todd Gibson Board Member
Owen Hansen Board Member
Wendy Boswell Board Member
Brandie Bridgnell Board Member
Tamra Young Board Member
Regan Penning Secretary
David Bristow Board President
Larissa Wycoff Treasurer

Tax year 2023

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
Marc Edson Executive Dir. 17.7% of Rev
Marc Edson Executive Dir. 15.7% of Rev
Randy Ross Board Member 4.2% of Rev
David Bristow Board President 0.4% of Rev
Wendy Boswell Board President 0.4% of Rev
Dianna Hite-Smith Board Member
David Bristow Board Member
Kathy Robinson Board Member
Sandy Huseth Board Member
Patricia Clarke Board Member
Kasandra Partain Board Member
Byron McLaughlin Board Member
Todd Gibson Board Member
Brandie Bridgnell Board Member
Steve Jungen Treasurer
Wendy Boswell Board President
Darren Clark Board President
Christi Harrington Secretary
Tamra Young Board Member
Justin McDavitt Board Member
Kathy Edson Board Member
Sandy Huseth Board Member
Lisa Saldano Board Member
Kasandra Partain Board Member
Byron McLaughlin Board Member
Todd Gibson Board Member
Larissa Wycoff Board Member
Christi Harrington Board Member
Brandie Bridgnell Board Member
Tamra Young Board Member
Regan Penning Secretary
Steve Jungen Treasurer

Tax year 2022

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
Dianna Hite-Smith Board Member
David Bristow Board Member
Sandy Huseth Board Member
Patricia Clarke Board Member
Randy Ross Board Member
Byron McLaughlin Board Member
Todd Gibson Board Member
Steve Jungen Treasurer
Wendy Boswell Board President
Darren Clark Board President
Christi Harrington Secretary
Brandie Bridgnell Board Member
Tamra Young Board Member
Justin McDavitt Board Member

Tax year 2021

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
Dianna Hite-Smith Board Member
Anna McIntyre Board Member
Rick Anderson Board Member
Sandy Huseth Board Member
Patricia Clarke Board Member
Randy Ross Board Member
Byron McLaughlin Board Member
Todd Gibson Board Member
Steve Jungen Treasurer
Wendy Boswell Board President
Darren Clark Board President
Christi Harrington Secretary
Brandie Bridgnell Board Member
Roger Hart Officer
Tamara Young Officer
Justin McDavitt Officer
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Score breakdown

Score breakdown

Financial resilience
30 / 100
weight 40%
Governance risk
42 / 100
weight 40%
Program scale
45 / 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

Compared to 829 other orgs in CA with NTEE prefix A6.

Most-divergent component: program score sits 14 points above the peer median (45 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. Reduce top-officer compensation from 37.2% to under 22% of revenue — would move governance score by ~30 points.
  2. Separate signing authority from fundraising authority when both are held by one person — removes the concentration penalty (~12 points).

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