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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2011
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2016
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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
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 483 other orgs in TX with NTEE prefix A6.

Most-divergent component: financial score sits 67 points below the peer median (0 vs. 67).

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.