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
28
Score
Governance
42
Score
Financial
5
Score
Program
60
Score

Institutional Epochs

2011
2012
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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
2024 Hidden Hidden Unknown
2023 Hidden Hidden 25.2% 28 Critical Intervention Needed Gov Risk
2022 8.0% 34 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2021 31.6% 32 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2020 8.7% 36 Financially Distressed Recovery
2019 6.3% 32 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2018 5.6% 36 Financially Distressed Recovery
2017 29 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2016 7.3% 32 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2015 8.3% 36 Financially Distressed Recovery
2014 35 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2013 41 Financially Distressed Recovery
2012 25 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch

Officer compensation history

Tax year 2025

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
Evan Hammond Executive Director 11.8% of Rev
Evan Hammond Former ED 10.7% of Rev
Scott R King Treasurer 9.9% of Rev
Scott R King Treasurer 5.7% of Rev
Dave Hurlbert Board Member 3.4% of Rev
Diane Mack Board Member
Martha Leatherbury Board Member
Michelle Briere Board Member
Dwight Mcghee Board Member
Julian Mutter Board Member
Steve Armbruster Board Member
Rick Fifield Board Member
Peter Webb Board Member
Rex Leatherbury Board President
Betsy Fifield Secretary
Dave Hurlbert Executive Director
Rick Fifield Board Member
Julian Mutter Board Member
Betsy Fifield Board Member
Peter Webb Board Member
Rex Leatherbury Board President
Martha Leatherbury Secretary
Salvatore Giambanco Board Member
Terry Dufrene Board Member

Tax year 2023

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
Scott R King Treasurer 17.0% of Rev
Dave Hurlbert Executive DirectorExecutive 7.6% of Rev
Michelle Brierre Board Member
Terry Dufrene Board Member
Dwight Mcghee Board Member
Steve Armbruster Board Member
Julian Mutter Board Member
Rick Fifield Board Member
Peter Webb Board Member
Betsy Fifield Board Member
Rex Leatherbury Board President
Diane Mack Board Member
Martha Leatherbury Board Member

Tax year 2022

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
Dave Hurlbert Executive Director 7.3% of Rev
George S Leatherbury V Board President
Scott R King Treasurer
Betsy Eberle Fifield Secretary
Roderick A Fifield Board Member
Julian L Mutter Board Member
Stephen F Armbruster Board Member
Diane Mack Board Member
Peter W Webb Board Member
Martha S Leatherbury Board Member
Lt Col Dwight R McGhee Board Member
Terry Dufrene Board Member

Tax year 2021

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
Dave Hurlbert Executive Dir.
Scott King Treasurer
Betsy Eberle Fifeld Secretary
Julian Mutter Board Member
Rick Fifield Board Member
Stephen Armbruster Board Member
Diane Mack Board Member
Peter Webb Board Member
Rex Leatherbury Board Member
Marty Leatherbury Chairman
Angela O'Malley Board Member
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Score breakdown

Score breakdown

Financial resilience
5 / 100
weight 40%
Governance risk
42 / 100
weight 40%
Program scale
60 / 100
weight 20%
Overall
28 / 100
Priority Review

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

Peer comparison

Compared to 49 other orgs in LA with NTEE prefix A6.

Most-divergent component: financial score sits 31 points below the peer median (5 vs. 36).

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. Separate signing authority from fundraising authority when both are held by one person — removes the concentration penalty (~12 points).
  2. 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.