Compensation Escalation Cycle
Compensation Escalation Cycle
Compensation Escalation Cycle Market Archetype Mechanical Natural
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Compensation Escalation Cycle

What does this mean?

Revenue grows modestly, but top officer compensation grows consistently for 5 years, breaching danger zones. The executive is negotiating aggressive raises against a compliant board.

The Path Forward

The Steward

Re-establishes board supremacy over executive extraction. It freezes compensation and mandates that all future financial rewards be tied strictly to verifiable mission expansion.

The Steward
The Steward
Institutional Health Scores
5-yr trend: Compensation Escalation Cycle ↓
Overall
34
Score
Governance
42
Score
Financial
35
Score
Program
30
Score

Institutional Epochs

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2021
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Financial Era
Governance Era
Trajectory Era
Compensation Escalation

Historical Performance

Year Revenue Top Comp Comp % Rev Score Phase Label Outlook Details
2025 Hidden Hidden — — Unknown —
2024 Hidden Hidden — — Unknown —
2023 — — 26.0% 34 Critical Intervention Needed Gov Risk
2022 — — 22.8% 35 Financially Distressed Decline Risk
2021 — — 31.7% 40 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2020 — — — 48 Fragile Decline Risk
2019 — — 9.6% 46 Fragile Decline Risk
2018 — — 7.0% 50 Fragile Recovery
2017 — — 11.5% 43 Financially Distressed Decline Risk
2016 — — 11.4% 45 Fragile Decline Risk
2015 — — 11.7% 45 Fragile Decline Risk
2014 — — 14.0% 49 Fragile Recovery
2013 — — 16.3% 43 Fragile Stable Watch
2012 — — 15.9% 43 Fragile Stable Watch

Officer compensation history

Tax year 2025

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
ALECIA ONEILL Executive Director 27.7% of Rev
ALECIA ONEILL Executive Director 26.0% of Rev
MARY EL EMERSON Board Member —
VIRGINIA LEE Board Member —
WHITNEY MCCRACKEN Board Member —
JOSEPH SKUNDRICH Board Member —
DENISE REPPERT Board President —
MEGAN MCKOWN Board President —
ROY FULLER Treasurer —
SARAH GREEN Secretary —
JIM BALDWIN Board Member —
JONI EATON Board Member —
LISA FEIGENBAUM Board Member —
ELAINE GENUTE Board Member —
GREG LAMONICA Board Member —
DENISE REPPERT Board President —
ALYSSA CHAWGO Board Member —
MEGAN MCKOWN Board President —
MARY EL EMERSON Board Member —
ROY FULLER Treasurer —
VIRGINIA LEE Board Member —
SARAH GREEN Secretary —
WHITNEY MCCRACKEN Board Member —
JIM BALDWIN Board Member —
JOSEPH SKUNDRICH Board Member —
JONI EATON Board Member —
KELLY REPPERT Board Member —
LISA FEIGENBAUM Board Member —
ELAINE GENUTE Board Member —
GREG LAMONICA Board Member —
ALYSSA CHAWGO Board Member —

Tax year 2023

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
ALECIA ONEILL Executive Director 25.0% of Rev
ANNETTE BURNS Board President —
MARY EL EMERSON Board President —
JOSEPH SKUNDRICH Treasurer —
DENISE REPPERT Secretary —
JIM BALDWIN Board Member —
SHANNON BELTZ Board Member —
MEENA CONANT Board Member —
ROY FULLER Board Member —
ELAINE GENUTE Board Member —
SARAH GREEN Board Member —
VIRGINIA LEE Board Member —
JOYCE ZUMMO Board Member —

Tax year 2022

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
JIM BALDWIN Board Member —
SHANNON BELTZ Board Member —
ANNETTE BURNS Treasurer —
MEENA NAIR CONANT Board Member —
MARY EL EMERSON VICE PRESIDE —
ANNE ENGLISH Board Member —
HON MIKE GENUTE Board Member —
RICHARD HEIM Board President —
REBECCA KAUFMAN Board Member —
DENISE REPPERT Secretary —
JOSEPH SKUNDRICH Board Member —
JOYCE ZUMMO Board Member —
ALECIA O'OEILL EXECUTIVE DI —

Tax year 2021

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
ALECIA O'OEILL EXECUTIVE DI 23.9% of Rev
JIM BALDWIN Board Member —
ANNETTE BURNS Treasurer —
MELISSA DECORDOVA Secretary —
MARY EL EMERSON VICE PRESIDE —
ANNE ENGLISH Board Member —
HON MIKE GENUTE Board Member —
RICHARD HEIM Board Member —
TJ MOOREHEAD Board Member —
DENISE REPPERT Board Member —
JOE SKUNDRICH Board President —
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Score breakdown

Score breakdown

Financial resilience
35 / 100
weight 40%
Governance risk
42 / 100
weight 40%
Program scale
30 / 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 806 other orgs in NY with NTEE prefix A2.

Most-divergent component: governance score sits 37 points below the peer median (42 vs. 79).

5-year trend: Compensation Escalation Cycle

Revenue grows modestly, but top officer compensation grows consistently for 5 years, breaching danger zones. The executive is negotiating aggressive raises against a compliant board.

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.