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
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 85 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.