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

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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
2024 Hidden Hidden Unknown
2023 Hidden Hidden 8.5% 34 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2022 6.4% 40 Fragile Recovery
2021 4.5% 39 Financially Distressed Recovery
2020 12.0% 26 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2019 13.3% 31 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2018 11.5% 31 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2017 23.6% 27 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2016 10.2% 32 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2015 9.4% 34 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2014 9.2% 34 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2013 10.9% 32 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2012 32 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2011 32 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2010 32 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch

Officer compensation history

Tax year 2025

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
BRUCE CURLESS FOUNDER & TR 9.3% of Rev
DIANNE JACKOWSKI Board President
EDWIN RICO SANTIAGO VICE PRESIDE
JONATHAN PATOUHAS Treasurer
BRENDA ROBLES-COOK Secretary
RACHEL DURDIN Board Member
JEFFREY PEIRCE Board Member
CHRIS CONSOLE Board Member
PATTI DEITCH Board Member
FRANCESCA DELLELCI Board Member
DR MICHELE FORTE Board Member
TIMOTHY HARRIS Board Member
JENNIFER HOELZEL Board Member
JOE RYAN Board Member

Tax year 2023

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
BRUCE CURLESS Executive Director 9.1% of Rev
ROBERT BERNARDO Board Member
FELICIA LATOYA BROWN Board Member
RHONDA FIDELIA Board Member
MICHELE FORTE Board Member
JENNIFER HOELZEL Board Member
DOMINIC JANNEY Board Member
MARY FAJARDO JENKINS Board Member
JOE RYAN Board Member
EDWIN RICO SANTIAGO Board Member
CHRISTOPHER SORIANO Board Member
DAVIS TAGUE Board Member
PATRICIA DEITCH Board President
MAURICE HAYMAN Board President
JONATHAN PATOUHAS Treasurer
DIANNE JACKOWSKI Secretary

Tax year 2022

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
BRUCE CURLESS Executive Director 5.1% of Rev
FELICIA LATOYA BROWN Board Member
RHONDA FIDELIA Board Member
MICHELE FORTE Board Member
DOMINIC JANNEY Board Member
MARY FAJARDO JENKINS Board Member
JOE RYAN Board Member
EDWIN RICO SANTIAGO Board Member
CHRISTOPHER SORIANO Board Member
DAVIS TAGUE Board Member
PATRICIA DEITCH Board President
MAURICE HAYMAN Board President
JONATHAN PATOUHAS Treasurer
DIANNE JACKOWSKI Secretary

Tax year 2021

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
BRUCE CURLESS Executive Director 4.0% of Rev
FELICIA LATOYA BROWN Board Member
RHONDA FIDELIA Board Member
MICHELE FORTE Board Member
MARY FAJARDO JENKINS Board Member
JOE RYAN Board Member
EDWIN RICO SANTIAGO Board Member
CHRISTOPHER SORIANO Board Member
DAVIS TAGUE Board Member
VEDRA CHANDLER Board President
PATRICIA DEITCH Board President
MAURICE HAYMAN Board President
JONATHAN PATOUHAS Treasurer
DIANNE JACKOWSKI Secretary
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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 175 other orgs in NJ with NTEE prefix A6.

Most-divergent component: financial score sits 34 points below the peer median (0 vs. 34).

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.