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
34
Score
Governance
50
Score
Financial
5
Score
Program
45
Score

Institutional Epochs

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 —
2024 Hidden Hidden — — Unknown —
2023 Hidden Hidden — 34 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2022 — — — 39 Fragile Recovery
2021 — — 20.9% 33 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2020 — — 12.2% 35 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2019 — — — 32 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2018 — — 11.4% 29 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2017 — — 10.3% 25 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2016 — — 5.6% 30 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2015 — — — 35 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2014 — — 21.9% 33 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2013 — — 18.3% 37 Fragile Recovery
2012 — — — 35 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch

Officer compensation history

Tax year 2026

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
ALISON COE Board Member —
PHILIP RUBIN GRAVES Board Member —
AMANDA PRUNKARD Treasurer —
DEREK GRUELL Board Member —
THERESA GARBE Board President —
CHERYL FITZGERALD PLAYERS REP —
GABRIEL GOUNARIS Board Member —
THERESA HAYES Secretary —
SUSAN LAMBERT Board President —
SCOTT JEFFRESS Board Member —
JEFF ANDERSON Board Member —
JUSTIN WALLER Board Member —
SARAH LANE Executive Director —

Tax year 2025

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
THERESA GARBE Board President —
THERESA HAYES Board Member —
GABRIEL GOUNARIS Board Member —
SUSAN LAMBERT Board Member —
ALISON COE Board Member —
JUSTIN WALLER Board Member —
GUY MAULDIN Board Member —
SETH GRAVES Board Member —
SCOTT JEFFRESS Secretary —
KARYL MAIER Treasurer —
DEREK GRUELL Board Member —
CHERYL FITZGERALD PLAYERS REP —
KATIE HALLENBECK Executive Director —

Tax year 2023

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
KATIE HALLENBECK Executive Director 10.2% of Rev
TOM SCHWAB Board Member —
THERESA GARBE Board Member —
JERRY GREENE Board Member —
LYNN BROWN Board Member —
DAVID KALWINSKI Board Member —
LEANNE SHAVER Board Member —
SCOTT JEFFRESS Secretary —
JAMES CULP Board President —
CHERYLONDA FITZGERALD PLAYERS REP —
KARYL MAIER Treasurer —

Tax year 2022

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
KATIE HALLENBECK GENERAL MANAGER 10.2% of Rev
DAVID KALWINSKI Board Member —
THERESA GARBE Board Member —
LYNN BROWN Board Member —
SCOTT JEFFRESS Board Member —
JERRY GREENE Board Member —
ART HARRIS Board Member —
BETTY JEAN BENSON Board Member —
DAVID KALWINSKI Board Member —
JAMES CULP Board Member —
KARYL MAIER Board Member —
LEANNE SHAVER Board President —
CHERYL FITZGERALD PLAYERS REP —
ROBERT TURPIN Secretary —
TOM SCHWAB Treasurer —

Tax year 2021

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
GUY MAULDIN Board President —
ROBERT COOK Board Member —
BETTY JEAN BENSON Board Member —
LEWIS SONGER Board President —
LEANNE SHAVER Board Member —
ART HARRIS Board Member —
BETTY MOORE Secretary —
DAVID KALWINSKI Board Member —
CHERYL FITZGERALD PLAYERS REP —
ROBERT TURPIN Board Member —
TOM SCHWAB Treasurer —
LYNN BROWN Board Member —
GARLAND YOUNG Board Member —
NANCY FLUGRATH Board Member —
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Score breakdown

Score breakdown

Financial resilience
5 / 100
weight 40%
Governance risk
50 / 100
weight 40%
Program scale
45 / 100
weight 20%
Overall
34 / 100
Priority Review

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

Peer comparison

Compared to 130 other orgs in TN with NTEE prefix A6.

Most-divergent component: financial score sits 60 points below the peer median (5 vs. 65).

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.