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
38
Score
Governance
55
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 Hidden Hidden 8.4% 38 Financially Distressed Recovery
2022 18.5% 37 Fragile Gov Risk
2021 9.3% 40 Fragile Recovery
2020 24.8% 39 Fragile Recovery
2019 13.4% 37 Financially Distressed Decline Risk
2018 13.8% 41 Fragile Recovery
2017 16.5% 35 Financially Distressed Decline Risk
2016 11.7% 42 Fragile Stable Watch
2015 10.6% 42 Fragile Stable Watch
2014 11.6% 42 Fragile Stable Watch
2013 10.5% 42 Fragile Stable Watch
2012 9.8% 44 Fragile Recovery
2011 11.9% 42 Fragile Stable Watch

Officer compensation history

Tax year 2025

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
DAVID DADONE EXECUTIVE DI 8.2% of Rev
GWYNETH BURAK DEPUTY DIREC 6.8% of Rev
TOMAS MENDEZ Board President
MARIA COLE VICE PRESIDE
ANN MOSS Secretary
CASSANDRA PUHALLA HUNTER Treasurer
CARLY ABRAHAMSON Board Member
MATT BENJAMIN Board Member
AMANDA CHRISTENSON Board Member
TRUBEE DAVISON Board Member
JENNIFER EGBERT Board Member
MIKE KELLOGG Board Member
EMILIO LOBATO Board Member
STEPHANIE NESS Board Member
HEATHER NIELSEN Board Member
BRENDAN PICKER Board Member
LAUREN ROBERTS Board Member
ERIC ROTHAUS Board Member
WILL HOLDEN Board Member
TRAVIS RUMMEL Board Member

Tax year 2023

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
DAVID DADONE EXECUTIVE DI 7.2% of Rev
GWYNETH BURAK DEPUTY DIREC 6.5% of Rev
ELIZA LEACH Board President
ANN MOSS VICE PRESIDE
MIKE PICHE Secretary
ANITA SAYED Treasurer
KIRK AMBROSE Board Member
MATT BENJAMIN Board Member
AMANDA CHRISTENSON Board Member
MARIA COLE Board Member
ANN DALEY Board Member
EMILIO LOBATO Board Member
TOMAS MENDEZ Board Member
AMY METIER Board Member
PATTY ORTIZ Board Member
BRENDAN PICKER Board Member
CASSANDRA PUHALLA Board Member
LAUREN ROBERTS Board Member
CHANDLER ROMEO Board Member
CHRIS SHEARS Board Member

Tax year 2022

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
DAVID DADONE EXECUTIVE DI 6.0% of Rev
LAUREN ROBERTS Board President
ANN MOSS Board President
MIKE PICHE Board President
ELIZA LEACH Treasurer
KIRK AMBROSE Secretary
AARON BROCKETT Board Member
ANN DALEY Board Member
MARIA COLE Board Member
AMY METIER Board Member
PATTY ORTIZ Board Member
BRENDAN PICKER Board Member
CHANDLER ROMEO Board Member
CHRIS SHEARS Board Member
ANITA SAYED Board Member

Tax year 2021

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
DAVID DADONE EXECUTIVE DI 6.7% of Rev
GWYNETH BURAK DEPUTY DIREC 5.5% of Rev
LAUREN ROBERTS Board President
AMY METIER Board President
MIKE PICHE Board President
ELIZA LEACH Treasurer
KIRK AMBROSE Secretary
AARON BROCKETT Board Member
ANN DALEY Board Member
SHEILA KEMPER DIETRICH Board Member
KATHLEEN MCCORMICK Board Member
RON MCMAHAN Board Member
ANN MOSS Board Member
PATTY ORTIZ Board Member
BRENDAN PICKER Board Member
CHANDLER ROMEO Board Member
CHRIS SHEARS Board Member
ANITA SAYED Board Member
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Score breakdown

Score breakdown

Financial resilience
10 / 100
weight 40%
Governance risk
55 / 100
weight 40%
Program scale
60 / 100
weight 20%
Overall
38 / 100
Priority Review

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

Peer comparison

Compared to 10 other orgs in CO with NTEE prefix A5.

Most-divergent component: financial score sits 23 points below the peer median (10 vs. 33).

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.