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
35
Score
Governance
50
Score
Financial
0
Score
Program
60
Score

Institutional Epochs

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2020
2021
2022
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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
2024 Hidden Hidden Unknown
2023 Hidden Hidden 35 Financially Distressed Recovery
2022 32 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2021 32 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2020 35 Financially Distressed Decline Risk
2019 35 Financially Distressed Recovery
2018 32 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2017 32 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2016 32 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2015 32 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2014 5.2% 34 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2013 32 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2012 32 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2011 34 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch

Officer compensation history

Tax year 2025

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
COLIN ALLEY Treasurer
ERIN ALLEY Board Member
GABRIELLE BERMAN-SMITH Board Member
JEAN BOTE Board Member
MARY DILTS Secretary
CARL FREDRICK Board Member
LUCY MERCER Board Member
LISETTE SELL Board President

Tax year 2023

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
MARY DILTS Secretary
LUCY MERCER Board Member
MICHAEL PRITCHARD Board Member
LISETTE SELL Board President
GARY STANFORD Board Member
BRUCE TREMAYNE Treasurer

Tax year 2022

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
MARY DILTS Secretary
LUCY MERCER Board Member
MICHAEL PRITCHARD Board Member
LISETTE SELL Board President
GARY STANFORD Board Member
BRUCE TREMAYNE Treasurer

Tax year 2021

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
MARY DILTS Secretary
LUCY MERCER Board Member
MICHAEL PRITCHARD Board Member
LISETTE SELL Board President
GARY STANFORD Board Member
BRUCE TREMAYNE Treasurer
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Score breakdown

Score breakdown

Financial resilience
0 / 100
weight 40%
Governance risk
50 / 100
weight 40%
Program scale
60 / 100
weight 20%
Overall
35 / 100
Priority Review

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

Peer comparison

Compared to 830 other orgs in CA with NTEE prefix A6.

Most-divergent component: financial score sits 33 points below the peer median (0 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.