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

2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
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 18.4% 27 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2023 19.4% 27 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2022 18.9% 31 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2021 16.8% 31 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2020 18.0% 27 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2019 15.8% 27 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2018 29 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2017 29 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2016 14.5% 29 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2015 15.0% 29 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2014 20.1% 24 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2013 18.7% 25 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2012 15.8% 27 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2011 17.2% 27 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch

Officer compensation history

Tax year 2025

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
ELIZABETH CRAIG Board President
JAMES BLAIR Board President
JOAN COLE Board Member
SANDRA DEL CASALE Board Member
CICELY DAUTREMONT Board Member
DOUGLAS MANCE Board Member
LAURA MANCE Board Member
PAMELA PARRY Board Member
ROCHELLE TAYLOR Board Member
RUTH DAVIS Board Member
SHIRLEY SCOTT Board Member
GAIL FITZHUGH Board Member
DEE DEE SAMET Board Member
JAKE JACOBS Board Member
JONATHAN ZENZ Board Member
FRED RODRIGUEZ Board Member
LINDSAY JOELLE Board Member
ALEJANDRO CANELOS Board Member
MARYANN TROMBINO Board Member

Tax year 2023

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
JAMES BLAIR Board President 10.6% of Rev
JAMES BLAIR Board President 9.6% of Rev
SUSAN CLAASEN Board President 7.0% of Rev
SUSAN CLAASEN Board President 3.0% of Rev
SHIRLEY SCOTT Board Member
GAIL FITZHUGH Board Member
ANNE CAVANAGH Board Member
RUTH DAVIS Board Member
JAKE JACOBS Board Member
HOPE SIMPARA Board Member
STEVE PETERSON Board Member
DEE DEE SAMET Board Member
SANDRA DEL CASALE Board Member
CICELY DAUTREMONT Board Member
JANE BROWN Board Member
JOAN COLE Board Member
PAMELA PARRY Board Member
ROCHELLE TAYLOR Board Member
DOUGLAS MANCE Board Member
LAURA MANCE Board Member
RUTH DAVIS Board Member
ANNE CAVANAGH Board Member
ROCHELLE TAYLOR Board Member
SHIRLEY SCOTT Board Member
DEE DEE SAMET Board Member
STEVE PETERSON Board Member
GAIL FITZHUGH Board Member
SANDRA DEL CASALE Board Member
JOAN COLE Board Member
JANE BROWN Board Member
CICELY DAUTREMONT Board Member
PAMELA PARRY Board Member
LAURA MANCE Board Member
DOUGLAS MANCE Board Member

Tax year 2021

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
JAMES BLAIR Board President 9.7% of Rev
SUSAN CLAASEN Board President 3.4% of Rev
CICELY DAUTREMONT Board Member
PAMELA PARRY Board Member
LAURA MANCE Board Member
DOUGLAS MANCE Board Member
TAMMY BRUMMITT Board Member
RUTH DAVIS Board Member
ANNE CAVANAGH Board Member
LILY BRUMMITT Board Member
DEE DEE SAMET Board Member
LAURA K ORLICH Board Member
GAIL FITZHUGH Board Member
ROCHELLE TAYLOR Board Member
SANDRA DEL CASALE Board Member
JOAN COLE Board Member
JANE BROWN 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 118 other orgs in AZ with NTEE prefix A6.

Most-divergent component: financial score sits 31 points below the peer median (0 vs. 31).

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.