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

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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 46 other orgs in TN with NTEE prefix A6.

Most-divergent component: financial score sits 32 points below the peer median (5 vs. 37).

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.