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
32
Score
Governance
58
Score
Financial
0
Score
Program
45
Score

Institutional Epochs

2010
2011
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2013
2014
2015
2016
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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 Hidden Hidden 1.1% 32 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2022 1.3% 32 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2021 1.4% 32 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2020 14.1% 29 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2019 5.3% 36 Financially Distressed Recovery
2018 9.0% 34 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2017 29 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2016 51 Fragile Stable Watch
2015 51 Fragile Stable Watch
2014 51 Fragile Recovery
2013 47 Financially Distressed Decline Risk
2012 51 Fragile Recovery
2011 14.4% 35 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch

Officer compensation history

Tax year 2025

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
Sam Yoder Executive Director
Lachelle Yoder Board Member
Debbie Eisele Board President
Jennifer Puffenbarger Board President
Nick Spyros Corporate Attorney
Scott Gookin Board Member
Gina Clatterbuck Board President
Lori Roddy Treasurer
Melissa Pieja Board Member
Rick Davis Advisory Board
Bill Reeder Advisory Board
Honorable Jill Vogal Advisory Board
Jerry Hull Board Member
Tabatha Mitchell Board Member
Liba Spyros Board Member
Amy Thorpe Board Member

Tax year 2023

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
Sam Yoder Executive Director 1.7% of Rev
Melissa Pieja Board Member 1.4% of Rev
Lachelle Yoder Board Member
Debbie Eisele Board President
Jennifer Puffenbarger Board President
Nick Spyros Corporate Attorney
Scott Gookin Board Member
Kim Bridges Secretary
Gina Clatterbuck Board President
Lori Roddy Treasurer
Rick Davis Advisory Board
Bill Reeder Advisory Board
Honorable Jill Vogal Advisory Board
Jerry Hull Board Member
Tabatha Mitchell Board Member
Liba Spyros Board Member
Amy Thorpe Board Member

Tax year 2022

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
Bob Swift Board Member 6.6% of Rev
Sam Yoder Executive Director 2.8% of Rev
Melissa Pieja Board Member 0.8% of Rev
Lachelle Yoder Board Member
Debbie Eisele Board President
Jennifer Puffenbarger Board President
Nick Spyros Corporate Attorney
Scott Gookin Board Member
Aimee O'Grady Secretary
Gina Clatterbuck Board President
Karen Lovitt Treasurer
Rick Davis Advisory Board
Bill Reeder Advisory Board
Honorable Jill Vogal Advisory Board
Dr Lawrence Finkel Board Member
Jerry Hull Board Member
Royce Kelly Board Member

Tax year 2021

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
Sam Yoder Executive Director
Lachelle Yoder Board Member
Debbie Eisele Board President
Jennifer Puffenbarger Board President
Nick Spyros Corporate Attorney
Scott Gookin Board Member
Aimee O'Grady Secretary
Gina Clatterbuck Board President
Karen Lovitt Treasurer
Melissa Pieja Board Member
Rick Davis Advisory Board
Bill Reeder Advisory Board
Honorable Jill Vogal Advisory Board
Dr Lawrence Finkel Board Member
Jerry Hull Board Member
Royce Kelly Board Member
Bob Swift Board Member
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Score breakdown

Score breakdown

Financial resilience
0 / 100
weight 40%
Governance risk
58 / 100
weight 40%
Program scale
45 / 100
weight 20%
Overall
32 / 100
Priority Review

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

Peer comparison

Compared to 146 other orgs in VA with NTEE prefix A6.

Most-divergent component: financial score sits 36 points below the peer median (0 vs. 36).

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.