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
42
Score
Financial
25
Score
Program
45
Score

Institutional Epochs

2010
2011
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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 Hidden Hidden 27.8% 34 Critical Intervention Needed Gov Risk
2023 Hidden Hidden 25.8% 34 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2022 — — 26.3% 32 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2021 — — 27.6% 27 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2020 — — 35.5% 21 Critical Intervention Needed Gov Risk
2019 — — 18.6% 33 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2018 — — 22.6% 31 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2017 — — — 31 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2016 — — — 35 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2015 — — — 39 Fragile Recovery
2014 — — — 29 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2013 — — — 29 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2012 — — — 29 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2011 — — — 29 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch

Officer compensation history

Tax year 2025

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
BARRY STEVENS Executive Director 27.8% of Rev
MELISSA KIPER BALDWIN Board President —
TYLER BAUGH Treasurer —
LEONARD CLARK Board Member —
KELLI COLE Board Member —
WILLIAM COPELAND Chairman —
DAPHANIE DAILEY Board Member —
CHRISTIANE DRIELING Board Member —
TALITHA SMITH ELLIOTT Board Member —
JESSICA RAINWATER-GRIGSON Board Member —
SARAH HOFFMAN Board Member —
SARA BETH HOWARD Board Member —
ASHLEY HUBENTHAL Board Member —
REBECKAH LAWRENCE Board Member —
BRITTANY LINER Board President —
JESSICA LOUGUE Secretary —
LINDSEY LOWE Board Member —
KELSEA MCCRARY Board Member —
CHEYENNE MCCURDY Board Member —
LACY MILETELLO Board Member —
WENDY NAPOLI Board Member —
LINDA O'NEAL Board President —
GRACIE OUCHLEY Board Member —
DYLAN SANDERS Board Member —
JESSICA SLAUGHTER Board Member —
CHERYL SUTTON Board Member —
RONNIE WALKER Board President —
SHANNON WARREN Board Member —
CARMEN WRIGHT Board Member —

Tax year 2022

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
Barry Stevens Board President 33.5% of Rev
Georgia Street Board Member —
Michael Sawyer Board Member —
Lenece Laseter Cavalier Board Member —
Linda O'Neal Board Member —
June Cooper Board Member —
William Copeland Board Member —
Naomi Cordill Board Member —
Lauren Davis Board Member —
Aleta Eley Board Member —
Amy Keifenheim Board Member —
Melissa Kiper Board Member —
Adrienne Wells Board Member —
Cassie Livingston Board Member —
Nadia Morris Board Member —
Pam Morrison Board Member —
Kara Platt Board Member —
Sarah Sierveld Board Member —
Hillary Sirmon Board Member —
Cheryl Sutton Board Member —
Jason Tiser Board Member —
Courtney Wetzel Board Member —
Jay Yates Board Member —
Ashley West Board President —
Brandi Cole Secretary —
Debora Colvin Chairman —
Malcolm Oakley Treasurer —

Tax year 2021

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
Barry Stevens Board President 26.2% of Rev
Adrienne LaFrance Wells Board President —
Michael Sawyer Board President —
Ashley West Chairman —
Brandi Cole Secretary —
Debora Colvin Board President —
Chris Hyde Treasurer —
Linda O'Neal Board President —
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Score breakdown

Score breakdown

Financial resilience
25 / 100
weight 40%
Governance risk
42 / 100
weight 40%
Program scale
45 / 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 99 other orgs in LA with NTEE prefix A6.

Most-divergent component: financial score sits 32 points below the peer median (25 vs. 57).

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 27.8% to under 22% of revenue — would move governance score by ~12 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.