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
37
Score
Governance
45
Score
Financial
15
Score
Program
60
Score

Institutional Epochs

2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
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 — — 18.1% 37 Financially Distressed Recovery
2023 Hidden Hidden 18.9% 33 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2022 — — 11.9% 39 Fragile Recovery
2021 — — 21.0% 37 Fragile Recovery
2020 — — 12.4% 35 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2019 — — 8.5% 36 Financially Distressed Recovery
2018 — — 12.2% 35 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2017 — — 16.1% 29 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2016 — — 13.0% 35 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2015 — — 14.9% 35 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2014 — — 11.5% 38 Financially Distressed Recovery
2013 — — 18.2% 33 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2012 — — 17.1% 29 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2011 — — — 35 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch

Officer compensation history

Tax year 2025

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
ERIC LENTZ Executive Director 13.5% of Rev
LISA CAMERON Board Member 4.6% of Rev
DARYL WALKER Board Member —
ILANA STEINBURG Board Member —
BILL DAVIS Board Member —
TONY HUERTA Board Member —
DIANA BLACK Board Member —
CAMERON HUDLEY-TAYLOR Board Member —
CINDY KRAYBILL Board Member —
KRISTIN MEROLLA Board Member —
ELLEN GRAHAM Board President —
CECILIA QUINTANILLA Board President —
IAN LINDEMANN Treasurer —
NISHANA JOHN Secretary —
ADRIENNE JOHNSON Board President —

Tax year 2023

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
LISA CAMERON Board Member 10.3% of Rev
DARYL WALKER Board Member —
ILANA STEINBURG Board Member —
RACHELE ESPIRITU Board Member —
DIANE CONAWAY Board Member —
ELLEN GRAHAM Board Member —
NISHANA JOHN Board Member —
JESS KLOTSCHE Board Member —
IAN LINDEMANN Board Member —
CECILIA QUINTANILLA Board Member —
SONIA GONZALEZ-ORTEGA Board Member —
ADRIENNE JOHNSON Board President —
LUCY O'SHAUGHNESSY Board President —
JULIE ALMERIA Secretary —
DIANA BLACK Treasurer —

Tax year 2022

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
LAURA GABBAY Executive Director 5.6% of Rev
LISA CAMERON Board Member 2.6% of Rev
ILANA STEINBERG Board President —
DARYL WALKER Board Member —
LUCY O'SHAUGHNESSY Board President —
JIM MANIRE Treasurer —
JULIE ALMERIA Secretary —
DARLA DAKIN Board Member —
ADRIENNE JOHNSON Board Member —
JUDD CHOATE Board Member —
DIANA BLACK Board Member —
DIANE CONAWAY Board Member —
RACHELE ESPIRITU Board Member —
SONIA GONZALEZ-ORTEGA Board Member —
ELLEN GRAHAM Board Member —
NISHANA JOHN Board Member —
JESS KLOTSCHE Board Member —
IAN LINDEMANN Board Member —
CECILIA QUINTANILLA Board Member —

Tax year 2021

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
LISA CAMERON Board Member 4.0% of Rev
LAURA GABBAY Executive Director 3.7% of Rev
ANDREW COX Treasurer —
JIM MANIRE Treasurer —
ILANA STEINBERG Board President —
DARLA DAKIN Board Member —
ADRIENNE JOHNSON Board Member —
JULIE ALMERIA Secretary —
JUDD CHOATE Board Member —
LUCY O'SHAUGHNESSY Board President —
ARIELLE RUBIN Board Member —
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Score breakdown

Score breakdown

Financial resilience
15 / 100
weight 40%
Governance risk
45 / 100
weight 40%
Program scale
60 / 100
weight 20%
Overall
37 / 100
Priority Review

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

Peer comparison

Compared to 270 other orgs in CO with NTEE prefix A6.

Most-divergent component: financial score sits 35 points below the peer median (15 vs. 50).

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.