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
31
Score
Governance
50
Score
Financial
0
Score
Program
60
Score

Institutional Epochs

2010
2011
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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 12.4% 31 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2022 15.8% 25 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2021 8.9% 33 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2020 21.1% 24 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2019 15.7% 24 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2018 14.4% 31 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2017 13.7% 25 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2016 13.6% 20 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2015 15.8% 22 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2014 9.9% 27 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2013 4.0% 34 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2012 41 Financially Distressed Stable Watch
2011 37 Fragile Stable Watch

Officer compensation history

Tax year 2025

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
KIRVEN DOUTHIT-BOYD Board Member 6.3% of Rev
ERIN WARNER PRANGE Executive Dir. 6.2% of Rev
BILL HORNBARGER Board President
SHEREEN FISCHER Board President
STEVE SINGER Treasurer
TIM WICHMER Secretary
JAN ALBUS Board Member
TIM BAHR Board Member
CHRISTY BECKMANN Board Member
LAUREN BRICKLER Board Member
JASE CARTER Board Member
DAWN GILBERTSON Board Member
DR ROBERT S HARVEY Board Member
MONIQUE LEVY Board Member
MARILYN SHEPERD Board Member
TRACY SYKES-LONG Board Member
KATHIE WINTER Board Member
FRANCESCA DESTEFANE Board Member
ANDREA SLAVIK Board Member

Tax year 2023

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
ERIN PRANGE Executive Director 4.8% of Rev
MONICA BLACK ROBINSON Board Member
JOHN BRASE Board Member
LAUREN BRICKLER Board Member
LAUREN GENTRY Board Member
DAWN GILBERTSON Board Member
MARILYN SHEPERD Board Member
TRACY SYKES-LONG Board Member
CALVIN WINDSCHITL Board Member
ELIZABETH CRABTREE Board Member
CHRISTY BECKMANN Board President
KATHRYN WINTER Board President
BILL HORNBARGER Treasurer
TIM WICHMER Secretary
JAN ALBUS Board Member

Tax year 2022

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
BRIAN ENOS Artistic Director 4.1% of Rev
ERIN PRANGE Executive Director 3.6% of Rev
CHRISTY BECKMANN Board President
KATHRYN WINTER Board President
BILL HORNBARGER Treasurer
TIM WICHMER Secretary
JAN ALBUS Board Member
MONICA BLACK ROBINSON Board Member
JOHN BRASE Board Member
LAUREN BRICKLER Board Member
LAUREN GENTRY Board Member
DAWN GILBERTSON Board Member
MARYLIN SHEPERD Board Member
TRACY SYKES-LONG Board Member
CALVIN WINDSCHITL Board Member
ELIZABETH CRABTREE Board Member
KATHLEEN GOODMAN Board Member

Tax year 2021

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
Brian Enos Artistic Director 3.3% of Rev
Erin Prange Executive Director 3.1% of Rev
Christy Beckmann Board President
Kathryn Winter Board President
Dawn Gilbertson Treasurer
Timothy Wichmer Secretary
Jan Albus Board Member
Lauren Brickler Board Member
John Brase Board Member
Marilyn Sheperd Board Member
Bill Hornbarger Board Member
Elizabeth Crabtree Board Member
Kathleen Goodman Turner Board Member
Lauren Brooks Board Member
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Score breakdown

Score breakdown

Financial resilience
0 / 100
weight 40%
Governance risk
50 / 100
weight 40%
Program scale
60 / 100
weight 20%
Overall
31 / 100
Priority Review

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

Peer comparison

Compared to 104 other orgs in MO with NTEE prefix A6.

Most-divergent component: financial score sits 39 points below the peer median (0 vs. 39).

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.