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
38
Score
Governance
50
Score
Financial
15
Score
Program
45
Score

Institutional Epochs

2010
2011
2012
2013
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2015
2016
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2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
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 38 Financially Distressed Recovery
2023 35 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2022 39 Fragile Decline Risk
2021 36 Financially Distressed Recovery
2020 34 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2019 35 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2018 34 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2017 31 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2016 38 Financially Distressed Recovery
2015 28 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2014 32 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2013 32 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2012 43 Fragile Recovery
2011 35 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch

Officer compensation history

Tax year 2025

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
KERI KUTZNER Secretary
ANDY MCPHERSON PARLIMENTARIAN
ELISA ROMEO Board President
GRETCHEN SWANSON Board President
MATT HILLERUD Treasurer

Tax year 2023

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
MICHELE PRESCOTT Board President
JODI HAIGHT Board President
KAREN KING Treasurer

Tax year 2022

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
MICHELE PRESCOTT Board President
JODI HAIGHT Board President
KAREN KING Treasurer
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Score breakdown

Score breakdown

Financial resilience
15 / 100
weight 40%
Governance risk
50 / 100
weight 40%
Program scale
45 / 100
weight 20%
Overall
38 / 100
Priority Review

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

Peer comparison

Compared to 830 other orgs in CA with NTEE prefix A6.

Most-divergent component: financial score sits 18 points below the peer median (15 vs. 33).

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.