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
36
Score
Governance
50
Score
Financial
10
Score
Program
60
Score

Institutional Epochs

2010
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
2024 Hidden Hidden — — Unknown —
2023 — — — 36 Financially Distressed Recovery
2022 — — — 35 Financially Distressed Recovery
2021 — — — 40 Fragile Recovery
2020 — — — 39 Financially Distressed Recovery
2019 — — — 32 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2018 — — — 32 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2017 — — — 34 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2016 — — — 32 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2015 — — — 38 Financially Distressed Recovery
2014 — — — 32 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2013 — — — 38 Financially Distressed Recovery
2012 — — — 36 Financially Distressed Decline Risk
2011 — — — 52 Fragile Stable Watch
2010 — — — 52 Fragile Stable Watch

Officer compensation history

Tax year 2025

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
CORBITT LOCH Board Member —
RICK CANNING Treasurer —
LAURA ELLIS Board Member —
MATT COX Board President —
HEIDI S NAPOLITINO Board Member —
VICTORIA O'GORMAN Board Member —
NILES PEACOCK Board Member —
TANYA SHARP Board Member —
JEANNE THORSEN Board Member —
COURTNEY WOOTEN Board Member —
NICK SWEERS Board Member —
KIM BAYER-AUGUSTAVO Board Member —
NORM BROWN Board Member —
MICHAEL CHONG Board Member —
MATT BALDOCK Board Member —
TONI BAUMANN Board Member —
GLENDA KRULL Board Member —
TREASURE MACKLEY Board Member —
STEVEN RUANE Board Member —
JEFF LEWIS Board Member —
JAMIE AARONSON Board Member —
DAVID SCHAEFER Board President —
LINDSAY GEYER Board President —

Tax year 2023

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
MIKE ROSEN Board Member —
CHRISTIAN ANDERSON Board Member —
CORBITT LOCH Board Member —
ANN MCMAHON Board Member —
NORM BROWN Board Member —
RICK CANNING Treasurer —
LAURA ELLIS Board Member —
CHERYL CARLSON Board Member —
CHRISTINA CASTORENA Board Member —
ANDY CLINE Board Member —
CENA CONTEH Board Member —
MATT COX Board Member —
JIM MESICK Board Member —
HEIDI S NAPOLITINO Board Member —
VICTORIA O'GORMAN Board Member —
NILES PEACOCK Board Member —
TANYA SHARP Board Member —
JEANNE THORSEN Board Member —
DIANA WHITE Board Member —
COURTNEY WOOTEN Board Member —
CHERYL FOSTER Board President —
DAVID SCHAEFER Board President —
LINDSAY GEYER Board President —

Tax year 2021

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
DONNIE GRIFFIN Board Member —
CHRISTIAN ANDERSON Board Member —
CORBITT LOCH Board Member —
ANN MCMAHON Board Member —
NORM BROWN Board Member —
RICK CANNING Board Member —
LAURA ELLIS Board Member —
CHERYL CARLSON Board Member —
CHRISTINA CASTORENA Board Member —
ANDY CLINE Board Member —
CENA CONTEH Board Member —
MATT COX Board Member —
JIM MESICK Board Member —
HEIDI S NAPOLITINO Board Member —
VICTORIA O'GORMAN Board Member —
NILES PEACOCK Board Member —
TANYA SHARP Board Member —
JEANNE THORSEN Board Member —
DIANA WHITE Board Member —
CHERYL FOSTER Board President —
DAVID SCHAEFER Board President —
MIKE ROSEN Secretary —
LINDSAY GEYER Treasurer —
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Score breakdown

Score breakdown

Financial resilience
10 / 100
weight 40%
Governance risk
50 / 100
weight 40%
Program scale
60 / 100
weight 20%
Overall
36 / 100
Priority Review

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

Peer comparison

Compared to 177 other orgs in WA with NTEE prefix A2.

Most-divergent component: financial score sits 64 points below the peer median (10 vs. 74).

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.