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
27
Score
Governance
45
Score
Financial
0
Score
Program
45
Score

Institutional Epochs

2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
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
2025 Hidden Hidden Unknown
2024 Hidden Hidden Unknown
2023 Hidden Hidden 17.0% 27 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2022 8.9% 30 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2021 11.7% 31 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2020 8.8% 36 Fragile Decline Risk
2019 9.9% 40 Fragile Recovery
2018 9.4% 36 Financially Distressed Recovery
2017 14.2% 35 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2016 13.2% 39 Fragile Recovery
2015 15.4% 35 Fragile Decline Risk
2014 45 Fragile Decline Risk
2013 43 Financially Distressed Stable Watch
2012 43 Fragile Stable Watch

Officer compensation history

Tax year 2026

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
ERIN FIKE Artistic Director 12.1% of Rev
ABIGAIL WINGNARAJAH Executive Director 11.3% of Rev
KRISTINA PINDELL Treasurer
CAROLYN BELL Board President
DUSTIN VAN TASSELL Board President
ROBERT KINCHELOE Secretary
GENIE RATLIFF Board Member
CAROLYN MARYLAND Board Member
CHRISTINA NEUMANN Board Member
MICHAEL NEUMANN Board Member
BERTHA SALAZAR Board Member
RACHEL KENNEDY Board Member
FRANK LISA Board Member

Tax year 2025

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
VALENTINE LIBERATORE Executive Director 7.3% of Rev
ABIGAIL WINGNARAJAH Board Member 6.7% of Rev
MISHIC LIBERATORE Artistic Director 3.0% of Rev
CHRISTINA NEUMANN Board Member
KRISTINA PINDELL Board Member
BERTHA SALAZAR Board Member
GINIE RATLIFF Board Member
DUSTIN VAN TASSEL Board President
CAROLYN BELL Board President
ROBERT KINCHELOE Treasurer
MICHAEL NEUMANN Board Member
CAROLYN MARYLAND Board Member
BROOKE WILLIS Secretary

Tax year 2023

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
VALENTINE LIBERATORE EXECUTIVE DI 7.5% of Rev
HANS-PETER SCHUELE Board President
CHERYL FELIX Secretary
ROBERT KINCHELOE Treasurer
BROOKE WILLIS VICE PRESIDE
CHRIS MARVEL-LOSKOT Board Member
CAROLYN BELL Board Member
KRISTINA PINDELL GUILD PRESID
CAROLYN MARYLAND Board Member
GENIE RATLIFF Board Member
MISHIC LIBERATORE Artistic Director

Tax year 2021

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
VALENTINE LIBERATORE EXECUTIVE DI 7.9% of Rev
VALENTINE LIBERATORE EXECUTIVE DI 7.5% of Rev
MISHIC LIBERATORE Artistic Director 0.6% of Rev
AMBER SCHACTER Board President
KATIE INMAN Board Member
PEGGY SUE CLINE Secretary
ROBERT K ROACH Treasurer
MARCIA BERNHARDT Board Member
ROBIN COOK Board Member
TREVOR EDWARDS Board Member
KATHRYN FERGUSON Board Member
CAROLYN BELL Board Member
DR ANN MARIE LEIMER Board Member
LINDSAY PEREZ Board Member
KRISTINA PINDELL GUILD PRESID
LAURIANNE RODRIGUEZ Board Member
GAIL WHITE Board Member
MISHIC LIBERATORE Artistic Director
PAUL HOPKINS Board President
AMBER SCHACTER VICE-PRESIDE
PEGGY SUE CLINE Secretary
ROBERT K ROACH Treasurer
MARCIA BERNHARDT Board Member
MINDY BROWN Board Member
ROBIN COOK Board Member
TREVOR EDWARDS Board Member
MELANIE HERNDON GUILD TREASU
KATIE INMAN Board Member
DR ANN MARIE LEIMER Board Member
LINDSAY PEREZ Board Member
KRISTINA PINDELL GUILD PRESID
GAIL WHITE Board Member
JULIA WHITMIRE Board Member
RICHARD YOUNG Board Member
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Score breakdown

Score breakdown

Financial resilience
0 / 100
weight 40%
Governance risk
45 / 100
weight 40%
Program scale
45 / 100
weight 20%
Overall
27 / 100
Priority Review

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

Peer comparison

Compared to 132 other orgs in TX with NTEE prefix A6.

Most-divergent component: financial score sits 32 points below the peer median (0 vs. 32).

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. Separate signing authority from fundraising authority when both are held by one person — removes the concentration penalty (~12 points).
  2. 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.