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
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 Hidden Hidden 35 Financially Distressed Recovery
2023 34 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2022 49 Fragile Recovery
2021 40 Financially Distressed Decline Risk
2020 47 Financially Distressed Decline Risk
2019 5.1% 48 Fragile Recovery
2018 50 Fragile Stable Watch
2017 50 Fragile Recovery
2016 46 Fragile Decline Risk
2015 48 Fragile Decline Risk
2014 52 Fragile Recovery
2013 45 Fragile Stable Watch
2012 45 Fragile Stable Watch
2011 48 Fragile Stable Watch

Officer compensation history

Tax year 2025

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
JILL BROWN Treasurer
PRESTON CLENNEY Board Member
KAY FLEET Board Member
DEBBIE HENRY CHAIRMAN
CLAUDIA HUTCHINS Board Member
MIKE NEWBERRY Board Member
KIM SMITH Secretary
RENEE SPENCE Board Member
MIKE STUART Board Member

Tax year 2023

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
VERYL COCKEY Board Member
KAY FLEET Board Member
DEBBIE HENRY Board Member
JOY JINKS Board Member
MIKE NEWBERRY Board Member
KIM SMITH Secretary
JERRY SNIPES VICE PRESIDE
RENEE SPENCE Board Member
MIKE STUART Board Member
KRISTA TICKTIN EXECUTIVE DI
ALIDA WARD Board Member
RICHARD WARD Board President
JIM WASDIN Treasurer

Tax year 2021

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
BEN CLENNEY Board Member
VERYL COCKEY Board Member
KAY FLEET Board Member
JOY JINKS Board Member
MIKE NEWBERRY Board Member
KIM SMITH Secretary
JERRY SNIPES VICE PRESIDE
RENEE SPENCE Board Member
MIKE STUART Board Member
KRISTA TICKTIN EXECUTIVE DI
ALIDIA WARD Board Member
RICHARD WARD Board President
JIM WASDIN Treasurer
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Score breakdown

Score breakdown

Financial resilience
0 / 100
weight 40%
Governance risk
50 / 100
weight 40%
Program scale
60 / 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 34 other orgs in GA with NTEE prefix A2.

Most-divergent component: financial score sits 39 points below the peer median (0 vs. 39).

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.