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
42
Score
Financial
15
Score
Program
45
Score

Institutional Epochs

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Trajectory Era
Structural Deficit

Historical Performance

Year Revenue Top Comp Comp % Rev Score Phase Label Outlook Details
2024 Hidden Hidden — — Unknown —
2023 — — 30.1% 32 Critical Intervention Needed Gov Risk
2022 — — 24.9% 31 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2021 — — 37.6% 32 Critical Intervention Needed Gov Risk
2020 — — 36.2% 31 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2019 — — 29.6% 28 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2018 — — 30.8% 24 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2017 — — 27.8% 30 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2016 — — 28.0% 28 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2015 — — — 39 Financially Distressed Decline Risk
2014 — — — 43 Financially Distressed Decline Risk
2013 — — — 47 Financially Distressed Decline Risk
2012 — — — 51 Fragile Recovery
2011 — — — 45 Fragile Stable Watch

Officer compensation history

Tax year 2025

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
DARREN STEVENSON Executive Director 16.9% of Rev
HEATHER STEVENSON Artistic Director 13.2% of Rev
STEPHANIE REH Board President —
HALEY HENNING Treasurer —
LUANE HAGGERTY Board Member —
MICHAEL CHIAFULIO Board Member —
LARRY FRANCER Board Member —
PAUL TRACY Board Member —
NICK JOSPE Board Member —
SUSAN ROGERS Board Member —
DAVID HOU Board Member —
BEN CASILIO Board Member —

Tax year 2023

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
DARREN STEVENSON Executive Director 19.4% of Rev
DARREN STEVENSON Executive Director 13.3% of Rev
HEATHER STEVENSON Board Member 12.9% of Rev
HEATHER STEVENSON Board Member 11.3% of Rev
SUSAN ROGERS Treasurer —
LARRY FRANCER Board Member —
DAVID HOU Board Member —
FAHAD SAEED Board Member —
HALEY HENNING Board Member —
STEPHANIE REH Board President —
AARON KELSTONE Board Member —
KRISTEN LOPEZ Board Member —
PAUL TRACY Board Member —
JONATHAN BRATT Secretary —
SUSAN ROGERS Treasurer —
MICHAEL CHIAFULIO Board Member —
LARRY FRANCER Board Member —
DAVID HOU Board Member —
FAHAD SAEED Board Member —
HALEY HENNING Board Member —
STEPHANIE REH Board President —
AARON KELSTONE Board Member —
KRISTEN LOPEZ Board Member —
PAUL TRACY Board Member —

Tax year 2022

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
DARREN STEVENSON Executive Director 11.5% of Rev
HEATHER STEVENSON Board Member 7.0% of Rev
MICHAEL CHIAFULIO Board Member —
SUSAN ROGERS Treasurer —
SUSIE HUME Board Member —
LARRY FRANCER Board President —
DAVID HOU Board Member —
FAHAD SAEED Board Member —
GERIANNE PUSKAS Board President —
STEPHANIE REH Board Member —

Tax year 2021

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
DARREN STEVENSON Executive Director 14.9% of Rev
HEATHER STEVENSON Board Member 5.3% of Rev
MICHAEL CHIAFULIO Board Member —
SUSAN ROGERS Treasurer —
DAMON DIEHL Board Member —
LARRY FRANCER Board President —
DAVID HOU Board Member —
FAHAD SAEED Board Member —
TYLER CASSIDY-HEACOCK Secretary —
GERIANNE PUSKAS Board President —
STEPHANIE REH Board Member —
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Score breakdown

Score breakdown

Financial resilience
15 / 100
weight 40%
Governance risk
42 / 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 1,226 other orgs in NY with NTEE prefix A6.

Most-divergent component: financial score sits 37 points below the peer median (15 vs. 52).

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. Reduce top-officer compensation from 30.1% to under 22% of revenue — would move governance score by ~16 points.
  2. Separate signing authority from fundraising authority when both are held by one person — removes the concentration penalty (~12 points).

Improving governance is a board decision. These are the levers.