Structural Deficit
Structural Deficit
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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
43
Score
Governance
58
Score
Financial
20
Score
Program
60
Score

Institutional Epochs

2010
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
2025 Hidden Hidden — — Unknown —
2023 — — 3.5% 43 Fragile Stable Watch
2022 — — 2.6% 43 Fragile Stable Watch
2021 — — 3.2% 43 Fragile Recovery
2020 — — 3.3% 35 Financially Distressed Stable Watch
2019 — — 2.8% 35 Financially Distressed Decline Risk
2018 — — 5.0% 37 Financially Distressed Recovery
2017 — — 4.2% 35 Financially Distressed Stable Watch
2016 — — 4.1% 35 Financially Distressed Stable Watch
2015 — — 3.9% 35 Financially Distressed Stable Watch
2014 — — 4.6% 35 Financially Distressed Stable Watch
2013 — — 1.9% 35 Financially Distressed Stable Watch
2012 — — 3.6% 35 Financially Distressed Stable Watch
2011 — — 3.7% 35 Financially Distressed Stable Watch

Officer compensation history

Tax year 2026

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
BRIAN BAXTER Executive Director 3.4% of Rev
AMY NOVAK Board Member —
ANN MCNAMARA Board Member —
ANNETTE TEPHLY Board Member —
BOB LELONEK Board Member —
CARL CARTWRIGHT Board Member —
CHARLOTTE MORRISON Board Member —
DAVID WATERMAN Board Member —
ERIE JOHNSON Board Member —
GEORGE HESSE EX-OFFICIO —
GREGORY SCHERMER Board Member —
JAMES NIEDELMAN Board Member —
JULIE ABRAMOWSKI Board Member —
KATELYN MEDINA Board Member —
KATIE MARCHIK Board Member —
KENDRA ELLEDGE Board Member —
MALIK KHALIQ Board Member —
MARK RUSSELL SMITH Board Member —
MARYSUE SALMON Board Member —
MATREYI JANARTHANAN Board Member —
MEENA BRANDT Board Member —
MELISSA VON MAUR Board Member —
MINDY ZUMDOME Board Member —
PATRICIA DUFFY Board Member —
R SCOTT VAN VOOREN Board Member —
RYAN MORENCY Board Member —
SARA PENNINGTON Board Member —
SENECA BLACK Board Member —
SHIRLEY GUSTA Board Member —
SUSAN HIPPLER Board Member —
VICTOR ALMGREN Board Member —
WILLIAM GARRETT Board Member —
ZACHARY WEATHERSPOON Board Member —
ZACKARY MORTON Board Member —
ALANA CARROLL Treasurer —
ARCHANA WAGLE Secretary —
CHRIS CONNOLLY Board President —
DARLENE STEFFEN Board President —
R HOVEY TINSMAN Board President —

Tax year 2023

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
BRIAN BAXTER Executive Director 2.7% of Rev
STEVE BAHLS Board Member —
KAY BASHAM Board Member —
SENECA BLACK Board Member —
ALLIE CONKLIN Board Member —
CHRIS CONNOLLY Board Member —
PATRICIA DUFFY Board Member —
SUSAN HIPPLER Board Member —
BOB LELONEK Board Member —
ANN MCNAMARA Board Member —
KATELYN MEDINA Board Member —
RYAN MORENCY Board Member —
CHARLOTTE MORRISON Board Member —
ZACKARY MORTON Board Member —
JOSEPH LOHMULLER Board Member —
SUSAN QUAIL Board Member —
MARYSUE SALMON Board Member —
GREGORY SCHERMER Board Member —
TOM SPITZFADEN Board Member —
R SCOTT VAN VOOREN Board Member —
MELISSA VON MAUR Board Member —
ARCHANA WAGLE Board Member —
JULIE ABRAMOWSKI Board Member —
MINDY ZUMDOME Board Member —
VICTOR ALMGREN Board Member —
ALANA CARROLL Board Member —
CARL CARTWRIGHT Board Member —
SHIRLEY GUSTA Board Member —
ERIE JOHNSON Board Member —
JAMES NIEDELMAN Board Member —
WILLIAM GARRETT Board Member —
MATREYI JANARTHANAN Board Member —
MICHAEL HARRING Board Member —
DAVID WATERMAN Board Member —
ZACHARY WEATHERSPOON Board Member —
AARON WETZEL Board Member —
DARLENE LINK VFS REP —
DARLENE STEFFEN Secretary —
ANNETTE TEPHLY Board President —
HOVEY TINSMAN Board President —
KATIE MARCHIK Treasurer —

Tax year 2021

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
BRIAN BAXTER Executive Director 2.7% of Rev
STEVEN BAHLS Board Member —
KAY BASHAM Board Member —
SENECA BLACK Board Member —
ALLIE CONKLIN Board Member —
CHRIS CONNOLLY Board Member —
PATRICIA DUFFY Board Member —
MICHAEL HARRING Board Member —
ROBERT LELONEK Board Member —
ANN MCNAMARA Board Member —
KATELYN MEDINA Board Member —
RYAN MORENCY Board Member —
CHARLOTTE MORRISON Board Member —
ZACKARY MORTON Board Member —
JOSEPH LOHMULLER Board Member —
SUSAN QUAIL Board Member —
MARYSUE SALMON Board Member —
GREGORY SCHERMER Board Member —
THOMAS SPITZFADEN Board Member —
R SCOTT VAN VOOREN Board Member —
MELISSA VON MAUR Board Member —
ARCHANA WAGLE Board Member —
JULIE ABRAMOWSKI Board Member —
MINDY ZUMDOME Board Member —
VICTOR ALMGREN Board Member —
ALANA CARROLL Board Member —
CARL CARTWRIGHT Board Member —
SHIRLEY GUSTA Board Member —
ERIE JOHNSON Board Member —
JAMES NIEDELMAN Board Member —
DARLENE STEFFEN Secretary —
ANNETTE TEPHLY Board President —
HOVEY TINSMAN Board President —
KATIE MARCHIK Treasurer —
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Score breakdown

Score breakdown

Financial resilience
20 / 100
weight 40%
Governance risk
58 / 100
weight 40%
Program scale
60 / 100
weight 20%
Overall
43 / 100
Priority Review

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

Peer comparison

Compared to 111 other orgs in IA with NTEE prefix A6.

Most-divergent component: program score sits 31 points above the peer median (60 vs. 29).

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.