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
35
Score
Governance
50
Score
Financial
15
Score
Program
45
Score

Institutional Epochs

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
2024 Hidden Hidden — — Unknown —
2023 Hidden Hidden — 35 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2022 — — — 46 Fragile Recovery
2021 — — — 31 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2020 — — — 38 Fragile Recovery
2019 — — — 35 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2018 — — — 35 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2017 — — — 31 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2016 — — — 25 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2015 — — — 29 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2014 — — — 33 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch

Officer compensation history

Tax year 2025

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
DANIEL BIGGERSTAFF VICE PRESIDE —
JAY CANODE Board President —
BART ELLER Board Member —
MELANIE FINAN Board Member —
BEN LEHMAN Board Member —
DANIEL ZISKIN Treasurer —

Tax year 2023

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
PHILIP SALEMBIER Board Member —
BEN LEHMAN Treasurer —
HOLLY BIDLE Secretary —
DANIEL BIGGERSTAFF Vice President —
JAY CANODE Board President —
BART ELLER Board Member —
EVIE STEVENSON Board Member —

Tax year 2021

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
HOLLY BIDLE Secretary —
DANIEL BIGGERSTAFF Board Member —
JAY CANODE Board Member —
KIM DUNHAM Board Member —
BART ELLER Board Member —
BEN LEHMAN Vice President —
JUDY MARTIN Treasurer —
PHILIP SALEMBIER Board President —
EVIE STEVENSON Board Member —
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Score breakdown

Score breakdown

Financial resilience
15 / 100
weight 40%
Governance risk
50 / 100
weight 40%
Program scale
45 / 100
weight 20%
Overall
35 / 100
Priority Review

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

Peer comparison

Compared to 270 other orgs in CO with NTEE prefix A6.

Most-divergent component: financial score sits 35 points below the peer median (15 vs. 50).

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.