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
55
Score
Financial
0
Score
Program
60
Score

Institutional Epochs

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2019
2020
2021
2022
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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 5.5% 34 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2022 4.9% 37 Financially Distressed Stable Watch
2021 5.7% 36 Financially Distressed Recovery
2020 5.3% 34 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2019 3.2% 35 Financially Distressed Recovery
2018 10.6% 32 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2017 21.1% 29 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2016 13.3% 32 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2015 19.1% 29 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2014 19.6% 27 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2013 17.6% 33 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2012 14.8% 34 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2011 14.1% 34 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch

Officer compensation history

Tax year 2025

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
FRANK VILLANI Executive Director 3.6% of Rev
MELISSA ZARB-COUSIN Board Member 2.0% of Rev
JOHN HEARD Board President
PAM BRAMBLE Board President
DOREN FEIN RUTTENBERG Board Member
ALONZO GUZMAN Treasurer
ALAN PETLIN Board President
CHUCK CALVIN Board Member
RICHARD FLORES Secretary
ADRIAN BRETADO Board Member
MELISSA CHAMRAD Board Member
JANELL GUZMAN Board Member
PATRICK LAABS Board Member
NATALIE SMITH Board Member
KARIN WASYLIW Board Member
MARCIE RAMSEY Board Member
SARA CHADEK Board Member
JASON CASELL Board Member
RANA EMERSON Board Member
MEREDITH ALVAREZ Board Member

Tax year 2023

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
FRANK VILLANI Executive Director 4.3% of Rev
JOHN HEARD Board President
PAM BRAMBLE Board President
DOREN FEIN RUTTENBERG Board Member
ALONZO GUZMAN Treasurer
ALAN PETLIN Secretary
RUBEN TENORIO DO Board President
CHUCK CALVIN Board Member
PEGGY BROWN Board Member
RICHARD FLORES Board Member
MELISSA CHAMRAD Board Member
CHRISTINE MAHR Board Member
GRETA MCFARLING Board Member
CHRISTOPHER BORDOVSKY Board Member
SARAH CHADEK Board Member
JASMIN DEAN Board Member
JENNIFER LEE Board Member
REGGIE WILLIAMS Board Member

Tax year 2022

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
FRANK VILLANI Executive Director 4.1% of Rev
JOHN HEARD Board President
PAM BRAMBLE Board President
DOREN FEIN RUTTENBERG Board Member
ALONZO GUZMAN Treasurer
ALAN PETLIN Secretary
RUBEN TENORIO DO Board Member
CHUCK CALVIN Board Member
PEGGY BROWN Board Member
RICHARD FLORES Board Member
MELISSA CHAMRAD Board Member
CHRISTINE MAHR Board Member
GRETA MCFARLING Board Member
CHRISTOPHER BORDOVSKY Board Member
SARAH CHADEK Board Member
JASMIN DEAN Board Member
JENNIFER LEE Board Member
REGGIE WILLIAMS Board Member

Tax year 2021

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
FRANK VILLANI Executive Director 3.4% of Rev
JOHN HEARD Board President
PAM BRAMBLE Board President
DOREN FEIN RUTTENBERG Board Member
ALONZO GUZMAN Treasurer
ALAN PETLIN Secretary
RUBEN TENORIO DO Board Member
CHUCK CALVIN Board Member
PEGGY BROWN Board Member
RICHARD FLORES Board Member
JACOB LADD Board Member
MELISSA CHAMRAD Board Member
CHRISTINE MAHR Board Member
GRETA MCFARLING Board Member
STEPHEN PHILLIPS Board Member
LESLIE SIEGLE Board Member
LAURENCE SEITERLE Board Member
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Score breakdown

Score breakdown

Financial resilience
0 / 100
weight 40%
Governance risk
55 / 100
weight 40%
Program scale
60 / 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 132 other orgs in TX with NTEE prefix A6.

Most-divergent component: financial score sits 32 points below the peer median (0 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).

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