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
34
Score
Governance
55
Score
Financial
0
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 5.1% 34 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2022 5.0% 35 Financially Distressed Stable Watch
2021 6.7% 34 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2020 6.0% 36 Financially Distressed Recovery
2019 3.8% 35 Financially Distressed Decline Risk
2018 8.1% 34 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2017 8.0% 36 Financially Distressed Recovery
2016 8.5% 34 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2015 8.3% 34 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2014 6.9% 34 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2013 4.3% 35 Financially Distressed Recovery
2012 11.6% 36 Financially Distressed Stable Watch
2011 9.6% 38 Financially Distressed Stable Watch

Officer compensation history

Tax year 2025

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
EMILY O'NEIL Executive Director Hidden
AIMEE ANDERSON GOVERNOR
SUSAN CHAPMAN GOVERNOR
LINDSAY BENTIS GOVERNOR
JESSICA BLACK GOVERNOR
STEPHANIE BOGGS GOVERNOR
MICHAEL KAUFMAN GOVERNOR
DEWEY NICHOLS GOVERNOR
KEN CALHOUN GOVERNOR
NICOLA DAY GOVERNOR
ALISON HONG GOVERNOR
DONNALYN KAHN GOVERNOR
YVETTE LEESON GOVERNOR
ANNIE NEWMAN GOVERNOR
MIRA WOODS GOVERNOR
SAMI WAKIM GOVERNOR
NANCY BAUER GOVERNOR
KATE PLOUSSIOS GOVERNOR
LIVIA ABER GOVERNOR
KYM LONG GOVERNOR
ROBERTA MARTONE PAVIA GOVERNOR
KRISTEN PERULLO Secretary
NOLLA HAIDAR GOVERNOR
MARIA BUNKER Treasurer
ROBIN HICKS Secretary
JOELLE TOMB Board President

Tax year 2023

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
EMILY O'NEIL Executive Director Hidden
AIMEE ANDERSON GOVERNOR
SUSAN CHAPMAN GOVERNOR
LINDSAY BENTIS GOVERNOR
JESSICA BLACK GOVERNOR
STEPHANIE BOGGS GOVERNOR
MICHAEL KAUFMAN GOVERNOR
VIVIANA BOZON GOVERNOR
LAURA SAUTER GOVERNOR
KEN CALHOUN GOVERNOR
NICKKI DAWES GOVERNOR
NICOLA DAY GOVERNOR
ALISON HONG GOVERNOR
DONNALYN KAHN GOVERNOR
YVETTE LEESON GOVERNOR
ANNIE NEWMAN GOVERNOR
GAYATRI PRADHAN GOVERNOR
KIM SPENCER GOVERNOR
MAI UCHIDA GOVERNOR
SAMI WAKIM GOVERNOR
MARIA BUNKER Treasurer
ROBIN HICKS Secretary
DEWEY NICHOLS Board President
JOELLE TOMB Board President

Tax year 2022

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
EMILY O'NEIL Executive Director Hidden
BRYAN BARASH GOVERNOR
SUSAN CHAPMAN GOVERNOR
NOAH BERGER GOVERNOR
MARCIA NEIBERG GOVERNOR
NORMAN FINN GOVERNOR
MICHAEL KAUFMAN GOVERNOR
TY FURMAN GOVERNOR
LAURA SAUTER GOVERNOR
PAULA WITKIN GOVERNOR
JEFF GREENSTEIN Treasurer
ROBIN HICKS Secretary
DEWEY NICHOLS Board President
JOELLE TOMB Board President

Tax year 2021

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
EMILY O'NEIL Executive Director Hidden
TY FURMAN Board President
JENNIFER LONDON GOVERNOR
KIMBERLEY SPENCER Board President
NOAH BERGER Secretary
MARCIA NEIBERG VICE PRESIDNET
JEFF GREENSTEIN Treasurer
PAULA WITKIN GOVERNOR
MICHAEL KAUFMAN GOVERNOR
NORMAN FINN GOVERNOR
ROBIN HICKS GOVERNOR
DEWEY NICHOLS GOVERNOR
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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
34 / 100
Priority Review

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

Peer comparison

Compared to 54 other orgs in MA with NTEE prefix A2.

Most-divergent component: financial score sits 35 points below the peer median (0 vs. 35).

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.