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
39
Score
Governance
45
Score
Financial
20
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 17.1% 39 Fragile Recovery
2022 14.5% 38 Financially Distressed Decline Risk
2021 42 Fragile Recovery
2020 20.9% 41 Fragile Recovery
2019 36 Financially Distressed Recovery
2018 34 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2017 32 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2016 25 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2015 25 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2014 25 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2013 29 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2012 29 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2011 29 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2010 31 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch

Officer compensation history

Tax year 2025

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
MARK MORGANELLI Executive Director 9.8% of Rev
MARK MORGANELLI Executive Director 9.8% of Rev
ELLEN PRIOR CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER 8.4% of Rev
ELLEN PRIOR CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER 8.4% of Rev
SARA LANGBERT Board President
JOHN GUNTHER-MOHR Board President
ZACHARY CARTER Board Member
EVAN CHARKES Board Member
MATTHEW COOLEEN Board Member
ROBERT GRAEF Board Member
ROBIN BELL-STEVENS Board Member
NEIL BENSON Board Member
RAYNALD LEVEQUE Board Member
ANTHONY MACELI Board Member
PAULA ROMANOW ETZEL Board Member
ADAM R ROSE Board Member
KATHRYN SLOCUM Board Member
BARRY STRUTT Board Member
DENISE DURHAM WILLIAMS Board Member
SARA LANGBERT Board President
JOHN GUNTHER-MOHR Board President
ZACHARY CARTER Board Member
EVAN CHARKES Board Member
MATTHEW COOLEEN Board Member
ROBERT GRAEF Board Member
ROBIN BELL-STEVENS Board Member
NEIL BENSON Board Member
RAYNALD LEVEQUE Board Member
ANTHONY MACELI Board Member
PAULA ROMANOW ETZEL Board Member
ADAM R ROSE Board Member
KATHRYN SLOCUM Board Member
BARRY STRUTT Board Member
DENISE DURHAM WILLIAMS Board Member

Tax year 2023

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
MARK MORGANELLI EXEC. DIRECT 6.5% of Rev
ELLEN PRIOR CHIEF OPERAT 5.6% of Rev
ROBIN BELL-STEVENS Board Member
NEIL BENSON Board Member
ZACH CARTER Board Member
EVAN CHARKES Board Member
PAULA ETZEL Board Member
ROBERT GRAEF Board Member
JOHN GUNTHER-MOHR BOARD PRESID
SARA LANGBERT Board Member
KATHRYN SLOCUM Board Member
BARRY STRUTT Board Member

Tax year 2021

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
MARK MORGANELLI EXEC. DIRECT 5.9% of Rev
ELLEN PRIOR Executive Director 3.0% of Rev
PAULA ETZEL Board Member
MONICA GETZ Board Member
ROBERT GRAEF Board Member
JOHN GUNTHER-MOHR BOARD PRESID
SARA LANGBERT Board Member
ED RUTLAND Board Member
KATHRYN SLOCUM Board Member
BARRY STRUTT Board Member
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Score breakdown

Score breakdown

Financial resilience
20 / 100
weight 40%
Governance risk
45 / 100
weight 40%
Program scale
60 / 100
weight 20%
Overall
39 / 100
Priority Review

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

Peer comparison

Compared to 700 other orgs in NY with NTEE prefix A6.

Most-divergent component: program score sits 31 points above the peer median (60 vs. 29).

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.