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
33
Score
Governance
50
Score
Financial
10
Score
Program
45
Score

Institutional Epochs

2011
2012
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
2023 33 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2022 33 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2021 52 Fragile Recovery
2020 36 Financially Distressed Decline Risk
2019 41 Financially Distressed Recovery
2018 35 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2017 35 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2016 29 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2015 35 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2014 33 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2013 35 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2012 27 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch

Officer compensation history

Tax year 2023

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
BRUCE COLQUHOUN Board President
JANET LAMBARTH Board President
NISHA COULTER Secretary
PEGGY SPRINGER Treasurer
PAUL DAVIS Vice President
MARTHA HARVIE Vice President
LORI LAFRANCE Vice President
SANDY COLQUHOUN Vice President
ROBIN BEAVER Vice President
JERRY SEERFOSS Treasurer
BETSY JOHNSON Vice President
ELIZABETH RAOL Board President
JEANETTE BRENNER Board President
PAULI BAILEY Board President
DON WILLINGHAM Board President
KRIS LAMBERSON ADVISOR

Tax year 2022

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
BRUCE COLQUHOUN Board President
JANET LAMBARTH Board President
NISHA COULTER Secretary
PEGGY SPRINGER Treasurer
PAUL DAVIS Vice President
MARTHA HARVIE Vice President
LORI LAFRANCE Vice President
SANDY COLQUHOUN Vice President
ROBIN BEAVER Vice President
JERRY SEARFOSS Treasurer
BETSY JOHNSON Vice President
KRIS LAMBERSON ADVISOR
ELIZABETH RAOL Board President
JEANETTE BRENNER Board President
JEANNE FELLER Board President
BETSY JOHNSON Board President
BOB KIRKPATRICK Board President
CAROLE FOLSOM Board President
CAROLYN GOOLEY Board President
LUCRETIA PLADERA Board President
JAN ABRAMS Board President
DELIA THURBER Board President

Tax year 2021

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
KRISTINE LAMBERSON Board President
JANET LAMBARTH Secretary
JIM WORTHINGTON Treasurer
BRUCE COLQUHOUN Vice President
MARTHA HARVIE Vice President
SHEREE WILKINSON Vice President
LUCRETIA PLADERA Vice President
ROBIN BEAVER Vice President
JERRY SEARFOSS Treasurer
BETSY JOHNSON Vice President
CAROL WORTHINGTON-BORODIN ADVISOR
ELIZABETH RAOL Board President
LORI LAFRANCE Board President
PAULI BAILEY CTE RIVER PARK SQUARE
DONN WILLINTHAM CTE RIVER PARK SQUARE
JEANETTE BRENNER Board President
JEANNE FELLER Board President
CONNIE UNDERWOOD Board President
PEGGY SPRINGER Board President
BOB KIRKPATRICK Board President
CAROLE FOLSOM Board President
SANDY COLQUHOUN Board President
GEORGE ABRAMS Board President
JAN ABRAMS Board President
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Score breakdown

Score breakdown

Financial resilience
10 / 100
weight 40%
Governance risk
50 / 100
weight 40%
Program scale
45 / 100
weight 20%
Overall
33 / 100
Priority Review

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

Peer comparison

Compared to 10 other orgs in WA with NTEE prefix A1.

Most-divergent component: financial score sits 29 points below the peer median (10 vs. 39).

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.

Overall score has gone from 41 → 33 over 5 years (declining by 8 points).

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.