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
32
Score
Governance
55
Score
Financial
0
Score
Program
60
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 8.6% 32 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2023 Hidden Hidden 19.6% 29 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2022 Hidden Hidden 15.5% 31 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2021 25.7% 34 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2020 23.5% 29 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2019 12.5% 32 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2018 16.1% 39 Financially Distressed Recovery
2017 13.8% 33 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2016 13.1% 31 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2015 12.5% 31 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2014 14.8% 29 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2013 13.9% 27 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2012 13.7% 32 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2011 6.8% 34 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch

Officer compensation history

Tax year 2026

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
STEPHEN WOGAMAN Artistic Director 8.6% of Rev
THOMAS H BERGH Board Member
PAUL BLIZMAN VICE CHAIRMAN
CAROL CHADWICK Board Member
LAURA CHAVEZ-WAZEERUD-DIN Board Member
DAMIEN CRUTCHER Board Member
HAROLD DAITCH Board Member
CAROLYN DEMPS Board Member
DANNY DEROSE Board Member
MARIA Y ETIENNE Board Member
RICHARD GRAUER Board Member
HAROLD Z GUREWITZ Board Member
GREGORY HAYNES Board Member
ROBERT HICKS Secretary
JOHN KAPLAN Treasurer
BARBARA KLARMAN Board Member
CINDY MAXWELL-PHILIPS Board Member
DAVID MONOGHAN Board Member
RANDOLPH SCHEIN CHAIRMAN
HENRY SHEVITZ Board Member
ROBERTA VIVIANO Board Member
RONALD E WHITNEY Board Member
JACKIE WIGGINS Board Member

Tax year 2023

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
STEPHEN WOGAMAN Board President 14.3% of Rev
DANIEL R DEROSE Board Member 7.6% of Rev
THOMAS H BERGH Board Member
PAUL BLIZMAN Secretary
CAROL CHADWICK Board Member
LAURA CHAVEZ-WAZEERUD-DIN Board Member
WENDY ZIMMER COX Board Member
DAMIEN CRUTCHER Board Member
PARIS DEAN Board Member
MARIA ETIENNE Board Member
RICHARD GRAUER Board Member
HAROLD Z GUREWITZ Board Member
ROBERT HICKS Treasurer
DIANE KAPLAN Board Member
JONATHAN LOWE Board Member
CINDY MAXWELL-PHILIPS Board Member
RICHARD ROBINSON Board Member
RANDOLPH SCHEIN CHAIRMAN
ERIC THOMAS Board Member
ROBERTA VIVIANO Board Member
RONALD E WHITNEY Board Member
JACKIE WIGGINS Board Member
GARY WOZNIAK Board Member

Tax year 2022

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
STEPHEN WOGAMAN Board President 14.3% of Rev
STEPHEN WOGAMAN Board President 14.3% of Rev
DANIEL R DEROSE Board Member 6.9% of Rev
DANIEL R DEROSE Board Member 6.9% of Rev
THOMAS H BERGH Board Member
PAUL BLIZMAN Secretary
ELIZABETH BROOKS Board Member
CAROL CHADWICK Board Member
LAURA CHAVEZ-WAZEERUD-DIN Board Member
WENDY ZIMMER COX Board Member
DAMIEN CRUTCHER Board Member
HAROLD DAITCH Board Member
PARIS DEAN Board Member
JIM EVOLA Board Member
HOWARD S GOLDBERG Board Member
RICHARD GRAUER Board Member
HAROLD Z GUREWITZ Board Member
ROBERT HICKS Treasurer
DIANE KAPLAN Board Member
BARBARA KLARMAN Board Member
JONATHAN LOWE Board Member
CINDY MAXWELL-PHILIPS Board Member
RICHARD ROBINSON Board Member
RANDOLPH SCHEIN CHAIRMAN
SUSAN SHEINER Board Member
NORMA JEAN SHUFRO Board Member
ERIC THOMAS Board Member
AMY TULLY Board Member
ROBERTA VIVIANO Board Member
RONALD E WHITNEY Board Member
JACKIE WIGGINS Board Member
GARY WOZNIAK Board Member
THOMAS H BERGH Board Member
PAUL BLIZMAN Secretary
ELIZABETH BROOKS Board Member
CAROL CHADWICK Board Member
LAURA CHAVEZ-WAZEERUD-DIN Board Member
WENDY ZIMMER COX Board Member
DAMIEN CRUTCHER Board Member
HAROLD DAITCH Board Member
PARIS DEAN Board Member
JIM EVOLA Board Member
HOWARD S GOLDBERG Board Member
RICHARD GRAUER Board Member
HAROLD Z GUREWITZ Board Member
ROBERT HICKS Treasurer
DIANE KAPLAN Board Member
BARBARA KLARMAN Board Member
JONATHAN LOWE Board Member
CINDY MAXWELL-PHILIPS Board Member
RICHARD ROBINSON Board Member
RANDOLPH SCHEIN CHAIRMAN
SUSAN SHEINER Board Member
NORMA JEAN SHUFRO Board Member
ERIC THOMAS Board Member
AMY TULLY Board Member
ROBERTA VIVIANO Board Member
RONALD E WHITNEY Board Member
JACKIE WIGGINS Board Member
GARY WOZNIAK Board Member

Tax year 2021

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
STEPHEN WOGAMAN Board President 12.0% of Rev
LAURA BAHNMUELLER Board Member
THOMAS H BERGH Board Member
PAUL BLIZMAN Secretary
ELIZABETH BROOKS CO-CHAIRMAN
CAROL CHADWICK Board Member
LAURA CHAVEZ-WAZEERUD-DIN Board Member
WENDY ZIMMER COX Board Member
DAMIEN CRUTCHER Board Member
HAROLD DAITCH Board Member
PARIS DEAN Board Member
JIM EVOLA Board Member
HOWARD S GOLDBERG Board Member
RICHARD GRAUER Board Member
HAROLD Z GUREWITZ Board Member
ROBERT D HICKS Treasurer
DIANE KAPLAN Board Member
BARBARA KLARMAN Board Member
MARTIN LIEBMAN Board Member
JONATHAN LOWE Board Member
ANTHONY MAREK Board Member
CINDY MAXWELL-PHILIPS Board Member
RICHARD ROBINSON Board Member
RANDOLPH SCHEIN CHAIRMAN
SUSAN SHEINER Board Member
NORMA JEAN SHUFRO Board Member
ERIC THOMAS Board Member
AMY TULLY Board Member
ROBERTA VIVIANO Board Member
RONALD E WHITNEY Board Member
JACKIE WIGGINS Board Member
GARY WOZNIAK Board Member
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Score breakdown

Score breakdown

Financial resilience
0 / 100
weight 40%
Governance risk
55 / 100
weight 40%
Program scale
60 / 100
weight 20%
Overall
32 / 100
Priority Review

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

Peer comparison

Compared to 185 other orgs in MI with NTEE prefix A6.

Most-divergent component: financial score sits 42 points below the peer median (0 vs. 42).

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.