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
45
Score
Financial
15
Score
Program
60
Score

Institutional Epochs

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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
2025 Hidden Hidden Unknown
2024 Hidden Hidden Unknown
2023 Hidden Hidden 20.8% 35 Fragile Gov Risk
2022 11.0% 37 Fragile Recovery
2021 48.4% 24 Critical Intervention Needed Gov Risk
2020 7.0% 38 Financially Distressed Decline Risk
2019 5.2% 44 Fragile Recovery
2018 9.6% 30 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2017 4.8% 35 Financially Distressed Stable Watch
2016 6.7% 34 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2015 12.2% 31 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2014 11.3% 31 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2013 10.9% 31 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2012 12.7% 32 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2011 8.3% 34 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch

Officer compensation history

Tax year 2026

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
CHAD AUSTIN JENKINS Artistic Director 21.6% of Rev
JOHN GASDASKA Board Member
JIM KIERSTEAD Board President
YASMEEN MOCK Board Member
LISA W SPELTZ Secretary
AMY E GEWIRTZ Board Member
RICHARD VIDA Board Member
KATELYN NICHOLS BARZIZZA Board Member
MERRIE L DAVIS Board Member
LORETTA MCCARTHY Board Member
PAMELA PAUL Board Member
KATHERINE KLINE Treasurer
RACHEL STANGE Board Member
JAN BUTTRAM ART DIR EMERITI

Tax year 2025

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
CHAD AUSTIN JENKINS Artistic Director 20.8% of Rev
LORETTA MCCARTHY Board Member
PAUL MARLOW Board Member
PAMELA PAUL Board Member
KATHERINE KLINE Board Member
SARAH O'GLEBY Board Member
RACHEL STANGE Board Member
JAN BUTTRAM ART DIR EMERITI
JOHN GASDASKA Board Member
DMW GREER Board President
JIM KIERSTEAD Board President
YASMEEN MOCK Board Member
LISA W SPELTZ Treasurer
AMY E GEWIRTZ Board Member
RICHARD VIDA Board Member
KATELYN NICHOLS BARZIZZA Board Member
JUDY GREENBLATT Board Member
MERRIE L DAVIS Board Member

Tax year 2023

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
CHAD AUSTIN JENKINS Artistic Director 13.4% of Rev
JOHN GASDASKA Board Member
DMW GREER Board President
JIM KIERSTEAD Board President
YASMEEN MOCK Board Member
LISA W SPELTZ Treasurer
AMY E GEWIRTZ Board Member
RICHARD VIDA Board Member
MICHAEL MILLS Board Member
JUDY GREENBLATT Board Member
MERRIE DAVIS Board Member
LORETTA MCCARTHY Board Member
PAUL MARLOW Board Member
PAM PAUL Board Member
ANDREA FLINK Board Member

Tax year 2021

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
CHAD AUSTIN JENKINS Board Member 11.5% of Rev
JOHN GASDASKA ART DIR-EMERITU
DMW GREER Board President
JIM KIERSTEAD Board President
ELLEN HERMAN Treasurer
LISA SPELTZ Board Member
AMY GEWIRTZ Board Member
RICHARD VIDA Board Member
MICHAEL MILLS Board Member
JUDY GREENBLATT Board Member
MERRIE DAVIS Board Member
LORETTA MCCARTHY Board Member
PAUL MARLOW Board Member
PAM PAUL Board Member
ANDREA FLINK Board Member
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Score breakdown

Score breakdown

Financial resilience
15 / 100
weight 40%
Governance risk
45 / 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 699 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.