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
50
Score
Financial
15
Score
Program
60
Score

Institutional Epochs

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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 38 Financially Distressed Decline Risk
2022 1.8% 45 Fragile Recovery
2021 6.5% 40 Fragile Recovery
2020 41 Fragile Recovery
2019 32 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2018 32 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2017 32 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2016 32 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2015 29 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2014 35 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2013 43 Financially Distressed Decline Risk
2012 47 Financially Distressed Stable Watch
2011 47 Fragile Stable Watch

Officer compensation history

Tax year 2026

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
ANNE TEUTSCHEL Board President
NORA MARTINEZ DEBENEDETTO Secretary
RYAN MITCHELL Treasurer
MARIA DEMOKA Board Member
JEN PARIKH Board Member
PJ JOHNNIE Board Member
MESLISSA SHEPHERD Board Member
ROSEY SINGH Board Member
KOSI REMY Board Member
JILL WHITELAW Board Member
JEREMY WINE Board Member
ELIZABETH DICANDILO EXECUTIVE DI

Tax year 2025

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
ANNE TEUTSCHEL Board President
ZABRINA STOFFEL Vice President
NORA DEBENEDETTO MARTINEZ Secretary
RYAN MITCHELL Treasurer
MARIA DEMOKA Board Member
JEN PARIKH Board Member
PJ JOHNNIE Board Member
KEVIN FREE Artistic Director
LAJU SHAH Board Member
MESLISSA SHEPHERD Board Member
ROSEY SINGH Board Member
KOSI REMY Board Member
JILL WHITELAW Board Member
JEREMY WINE Board Member
MICHELLE ZANGARI Board Member
SHARON SHAHINIAN Board Member

Tax year 2023

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
KEVIN FREE Artistic Director Hidden
STEPHANIE KIP ROSTAN Board President
TRACY GAVANT Vice President
ANNE TEUTSCHEL Secretary
MARK STEHLI Treasurer
DAVID TORNABENE Board Member
JEANNE BOSSOLINA-LUBIN Board Member
STEPHANIE ROSTAN Board President
TOM HORAN Board Member
TRACY GAVANT Vice President
ZABRINA STOFFEL Board Member
ANNE TEUTSCHEL Secretary
OREN KNISHINSKY Board Member
MARK STEHLI Treasurer
MELISSA ROMO Board Member
THOMAS HORAN Board Member
ZABRINA STOFFEL Board Member
JAHAYRA HARRELL Board Member
ERIN BUSH Board Member
CORINNE MULLEN Board Member
KEVIN FREE Artistic Director
JOI DANIELLE PRICE Board Member
MICHELLE ZANGARI Board Member
JOI DANIELLE PRICE Board Member

Tax year 2022

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
CHRIS OCONNOR Artistic Director Hidden
STEPHANIE KIP ROSTAN Board President
TRACY GAVANT Vice President
MARK STEHLI Treasurer
ANNE TEUTSCHEL Secretary
JAHAYRA HARRELL Board Member
CORRINE MULLEN Board Member
JOI DANIELLE PRICE Board Member
DAVID TORNABENE Board Member
ELIZABETH DICANDILO Board Member
JOE EPSTEIN Board Member
TOM HORAN Board Member
DANIEL GANS Board Member
OREN KNISHINSKY Board Member
ZABRINA STOFFEL Board Member
MELISSA ROMO Board Member
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Score breakdown

Score breakdown

Financial resilience
15 / 100
weight 40%
Governance risk
50 / 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 175 other orgs in NJ with NTEE prefix A6.

Most-divergent component: program score sits 34 points above the peer median (60 vs. 26).

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.