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
42
Score
Governance
50
Score
Financial
25
Score
Program
45
Score

Institutional Epochs

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 42 Fragile Recovery
2023 39 Fragile Recovery
2022 38 Financially Distressed Decline Risk
2021 36 Fragile Recovery
2020 36 Financially Distressed Recovery
2019 35 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2018 31 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2017 35 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2016 35 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2015 51 Fragile Stable Watch
2014 51 Fragile Stable Watch
2013 51 Fragile Recovery
2012 47 Financially Distressed Stable Watch

Officer compensation history

Tax year 2025

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
SHAWN COLEMAN Board President
LINDA SHEA Board President
PATRICK GONZALEZ Treasurer
KAYVAN KHALATBARI Secretary
SILVER AINOMAE Board Member
OBE ARISS Board Member
LARA CERVANTES Board Member
MARIA CREAVIN Board Member
VIRGIL DICKERSON Board Member
JEROME FLEG Board Member
MICHAEL FORTNEY Board Member
TOM HAGERMAN Board Member
GREGORY HARPER Board Member
SHAWN HAUSER Board Member
JOE MEGYESY Board Member
KIMBERLY PATTERSON Board Member
ELIZABETH WELLINGTON Board Member
STEPHANIE ZELNICK Board Member

Tax year 2023

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
SHAWN COLEMAN Board President
LINDA SHEA Board President
PATRICK GONZALEZ Treasurer
KAYVAN KHALATBARI Secretary
SILVER AINOMAE Board Member
OBE ARISS Board Member
LARA CERVANTES Board Member
PENELOPE CLOR Board Member
MARIA CREAVIN Board Member
VIRGIL DICKERSON Board Member
JEROME FLEG Board Member
MICHAEL FORTNEY Board Member
TOM HAGERMAN Board Member
GREGORY HARPER Board Member
SHAWN HAUSER Board Member
JOE MEGYESY Board Member
KIMBERLY PATTERSON Board Member
ELIZABETH WELLINGTON Board Member
STEPHANIE ZELNICK Board Member

Tax year 2022

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
SHAWN COLEMAN Board President
LINDA SHEA Board President
PATRICK GONZALEZ Treasurer
KAYVAN KHALATBARI Secretary
SILVER AINOMAE Board Member
OBE ARISS Board Member
LARA CERVANTES Board Member
PENELOPE CLOR Board Member
MARIA CREAVIN Board Member
VIRGIL DICKERSON Board Member
JEROME FLEG Board Member
MICHAEL FORTNEY Board Member
TOM HAGERMAN Board Member
GREGORY HARPER Board Member
SHAWN HAUSER Board Member
JOE MEGYESY Board Member
KIMBERLY PATTERSON Board Member
ELIZABETH WELLINGTON Board Member
STEPHANIE ZELNICK Board Member

Tax year 2021

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
SHAWN COLEMAN Board President
LINDA SHEA Board President
PATRICK GONZALEZ Treasurer
KAYVAN KHALATBARI Secretary
SILVER AINOMAE Board Member
OBE ARISS Board Member
LARA CERVANTES Board Member
PENELOPE CLOR Board Member
MARIA CREAVIN Board Member
VIRGIL DICKERSON Board Member
JEROME FLEG Board Member
MICHAEL FORTNEY Board Member
TOM HAGERMAN Board Member
GREGORY HARPER Board Member
SHAWN HAUSER Board Member
JOE MEGYESY Board Member
KIMBERLY PATTERSON Board Member
ELIZABETH WELLINGTON Board Member
STEPHANIE ZELNICK Board Member
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Score breakdown

Score breakdown

Financial resilience
25 / 100
weight 40%
Governance risk
50 / 100
weight 40%
Program scale
45 / 100
weight 20%
Overall
42 / 100
Priority Review

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

Peer comparison

Compared to 182 other orgs in CO with NTEE prefix A6.

Most-divergent component: program score sits 13 points above the peer median (45 vs. 32).

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).
  2. Stabilize program expenses or grow earned-income revenue to break the consecutive-deficit pattern (~8 points to financial score).

Improving governance is a board decision. These are the levers.