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
27
Score
Governance
45
Score
Financial
0
Score
Program
45
Score

Institutional Epochs

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2012
2013
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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
2025 Hidden Hidden — — Unknown —
2024 Hidden Hidden — — Unknown —
2023 Hidden Hidden 17.0% 27 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2022 — — 8.9% 30 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2021 — — 11.7% 31 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2020 — — 8.8% 36 Fragile Decline Risk
2019 — — 9.9% 40 Fragile Recovery
2018 — — 9.4% 36 Financially Distressed Recovery
2017 — — 14.2% 35 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2016 — — 13.2% 39 Fragile Recovery
2015 — — 15.4% 35 Fragile Decline Risk
2014 — — — 45 Fragile Decline Risk
2013 — — — 43 Financially Distressed Stable Watch
2012 — — — 43 Fragile Stable Watch

Officer compensation history

Tax year 2026

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
ERIN FIKE Artistic Director 12.1% of Rev
ABIGAIL WINGNARAJAH Executive Director 11.3% of Rev
KRISTINA PINDELL Treasurer —
CAROLYN BELL Board President —
DUSTIN VAN TASSELL Board President —
ROBERT KINCHELOE Secretary —
GENIE RATLIFF Board Member —
CAROLYN MARYLAND Board Member —
CHRISTINA NEUMANN Board Member —
MICHAEL NEUMANN Board Member —
BERTHA SALAZAR Board Member —
RACHEL KENNEDY Board Member —
FRANK LISA Board Member —

Tax year 2025

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
VALENTINE LIBERATORE Executive Director 7.3% of Rev
ABIGAIL WINGNARAJAH Board Member 6.7% of Rev
MISHIC LIBERATORE Artistic Director 3.0% of Rev
CHRISTINA NEUMANN Board Member —
KRISTINA PINDELL Board Member —
BERTHA SALAZAR Board Member —
GINIE RATLIFF Board Member —
DUSTIN VAN TASSEL Board President —
CAROLYN BELL Board President —
ROBERT KINCHELOE Treasurer —
MICHAEL NEUMANN Board Member —
CAROLYN MARYLAND Board Member —
BROOKE WILLIS Secretary —

Tax year 2023

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
VALENTINE LIBERATORE EXECUTIVE DI 7.5% of Rev
HANS-PETER SCHUELE Board President —
CHERYL FELIX Secretary —
ROBERT KINCHELOE Treasurer —
BROOKE WILLIS VICE PRESIDE —
CHRIS MARVEL-LOSKOT Board Member —
CAROLYN BELL Board Member —
KRISTINA PINDELL GUILD PRESID —
CAROLYN MARYLAND Board Member —
GENIE RATLIFF Board Member —
MISHIC LIBERATORE Artistic Director —

Tax year 2021

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
VALENTINE LIBERATORE EXECUTIVE DI 7.9% of Rev
VALENTINE LIBERATORE EXECUTIVE DI 7.5% of Rev
MISHIC LIBERATORE Artistic Director 0.6% of Rev
AMBER SCHACTER Board President —
KATIE INMAN Board Member —
PEGGY SUE CLINE Secretary —
ROBERT K ROACH Treasurer —
MARCIA BERNHARDT Board Member —
ROBIN COOK Board Member —
TREVOR EDWARDS Board Member —
KATHRYN FERGUSON Board Member —
CAROLYN BELL Board Member —
DR ANN MARIE LEIMER Board Member —
LINDSAY PEREZ Board Member —
KRISTINA PINDELL GUILD PRESID —
LAURIANNE RODRIGUEZ Board Member —
GAIL WHITE Board Member —
MISHIC LIBERATORE Artistic Director —
PAUL HOPKINS Board President —
AMBER SCHACTER VICE-PRESIDE —
PEGGY SUE CLINE Secretary —
ROBERT K ROACH Treasurer —
MARCIA BERNHARDT Board Member —
MINDY BROWN Board Member —
ROBIN COOK Board Member —
TREVOR EDWARDS Board Member —
MELANIE HERNDON GUILD TREASU —
KATIE INMAN Board Member —
DR ANN MARIE LEIMER Board Member —
LINDSAY PEREZ Board Member —
KRISTINA PINDELL GUILD PRESID —
GAIL WHITE Board Member —
JULIA WHITMIRE Board Member —
RICHARD YOUNG Board Member —
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Score breakdown

Score breakdown

Financial resilience
0 / 100
weight 40%
Governance risk
45 / 100
weight 40%
Program scale
45 / 100
weight 20%
Overall
27 / 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. Separate signing authority from fundraising authority when both are held by one person — removes the concentration penalty (~12 points).
  2. 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.