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
32
Score
Governance
55
Score
Financial
0
Score
Program
60
Score

Institutional Epochs

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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
2023 7.9% 32 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2022 5.6% 40 Fragile Recovery
2021 43.6% 40 Governance-Stressed Recovery
2020 1.4% 35 Financially Distressed Decline Risk
2019 7.0% 34 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2018 5.3% 34 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2017 5.1% 34 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2016 5.6% 34 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2015 7.7% 34 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2014 6.2% 36 Financially Distressed Decline Risk
2013 7.2% 38 Financially Distressed Recovery
2012 6.5% 36 Financially Distressed Recovery
2011 7.4% 34 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch

Officer compensation history

Tax year 2026

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
SARA FIERER Board Member 0.4% of Rev
LESLIE SCARPINO Board Member 0.3% of Rev
CLAIRE FIGEL Board Member 0.2% of Rev
PHYLLIS WISE Board President
THOMAS KINDER Treasurer
CHARLOTTE ROEHM Secretary
DAVID FULKER Board Member
MARILYN GALLANT Board Member
SVEIN GROEM Board Member
LIN HAWKINS Board Member
ERMA MANTEY Board Member
HARRY POEHLMANN Board Member
KARYN SAWYER Board Member
JUDY KNAPP Board President

Tax year 2023

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
SARA PARKINSON Executive Director 7.9% of Rev
RONNY WELLS Board President
STEVE MILLER Board President
ADRIANNE TRACY Treasurer
CHARLOTTE ROEHM Secretary
DAVE FULKER Board Member
MARILYN GALLANT Board Member
KARYN SAWYER Board Member
ERMA MANTEY Board Member
JESSICA BAUTERS Board Member
LESLIE SCARPINO Board Member
CLAIRE FIGEL Board Member
SHARON PARK Board Member
DAVID CROWE Board Member
STEVE KNAPP Board Member
DAVID ROTHMAN Board Member
HARRY POEHLMANN Board Member

Tax year 2022

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
KATHERINE LEHMAN EXECUTIVE DIR THRU 10/2020 9.6% of Rev
SARA PARKINSON EXECUTIVE DIR FROM 10/2020 3.4% of Rev
SARA PARKINSON Executive Director 1.7% of Rev
RONNY WELLS Board President
STEPHEN MILLER Board President
ADRIANNE TRACY Treasurer
BRUCE FEST Secretary
CLAIRE FIGEL Board Member
DAVID FULKER Board Member
ERMA MANTEY Board Member
LESLIE SCARPINO Board Member
STEVE KNAPP Board Member
DAVID CROWE Board Member
KARYN SAWYER Board Member
DAVID ROTHMAN Board Member
SHARON PARK Board Member
MARILYN GALLANT Board Member
HARRY POEHLMAN Board Member
RONNY WELLS Board President
STEPHEN MILLER Board President
ADRIANNE TRACY Treasurer
BRUCE FEST Secretary
CLAIRE FIGEL Board Member
DAVID FULKER Board Member
ERMA MANTEY Board Member
LESLIE SCARPINO Board Member
STEVE KNAPP Board Member
DAVID CROWE Board Member
KARYN SAWYER Board Member
DAVID ROTHMAN Board Member
SHARON PARK Board Member
MARILYN GALLANT Board Member
HARRY POEHLMAN Board Member

Tax year 2021

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
KATHERINE LEHMAN Executive Director 9.1% of Rev
RONNY WELLS Board President
STEPHEN MILLER Board President
ADRIANNE TRACY Treasurer
BRUCE FEST Secretary
CLAIRE FIGEL Board Member
DAVID FULKER Board Member
ERMA MANTEY Board Member
LESLIE SCARPINO Board Member
STEVE KNAPP Board Member
HARRY POEHLMANN Board Member
KARYN SAWYER Board Member
DAVID ROTHMAN Board Member
SHARON PARK 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
32 / 100
Priority Review

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

Peer comparison

Compared to 182 other orgs in CO with NTEE prefix A6.

Most-divergent component: financial score sits 36 points below the peer median (0 vs. 36).

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.