Structural Deficit
Structural Deficit
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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

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 Hidden Hidden 18.4% 27 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2023 — — 19.4% 27 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2022 — — 18.9% 31 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2021 — — 16.8% 31 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2020 — — 18.0% 27 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2019 — — 15.8% 27 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2018 — — — 29 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2017 — — — 29 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2016 — — 14.5% 29 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2015 — — 15.0% 29 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2014 — — 20.1% 24 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2013 — — 18.7% 25 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2012 — — 15.8% 27 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2011 — — 17.2% 27 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch

Officer compensation history

Tax year 2025

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
ELIZABETH CRAIG Board President —
JAMES BLAIR Board President —
JOAN COLE Board Member —
SANDRA DEL CASALE Board Member —
CICELY DAUTREMONT Board Member —
DOUGLAS MANCE Board Member —
LAURA MANCE Board Member —
PAMELA PARRY Board Member —
ROCHELLE TAYLOR Board Member —
RUTH DAVIS Board Member —
SHIRLEY SCOTT Board Member —
GAIL FITZHUGH Board Member —
DEE DEE SAMET Board Member —
JAKE JACOBS Board Member —
JONATHAN ZENZ Board Member —
FRED RODRIGUEZ Board Member —
LINDSAY JOELLE Board Member —
ALEJANDRO CANELOS Board Member —
MARYANN TROMBINO Board Member —

Tax year 2023

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
JAMES BLAIR Board President 10.6% of Rev
JAMES BLAIR Board President 9.6% of Rev
SUSAN CLAASEN Board President 7.0% of Rev
SUSAN CLAASEN Board President 3.0% of Rev
SHIRLEY SCOTT Board Member —
GAIL FITZHUGH Board Member —
ANNE CAVANAGH Board Member —
RUTH DAVIS Board Member —
JAKE JACOBS Board Member —
HOPE SIMPARA Board Member —
STEVE PETERSON Board Member —
DEE DEE SAMET Board Member —
SANDRA DEL CASALE Board Member —
CICELY DAUTREMONT Board Member —
JANE BROWN Board Member —
JOAN COLE Board Member —
PAMELA PARRY Board Member —
ROCHELLE TAYLOR Board Member —
DOUGLAS MANCE Board Member —
LAURA MANCE Board Member —
RUTH DAVIS Board Member —
ANNE CAVANAGH Board Member —
ROCHELLE TAYLOR Board Member —
SHIRLEY SCOTT Board Member —
DEE DEE SAMET Board Member —
STEVE PETERSON Board Member —
GAIL FITZHUGH Board Member —
SANDRA DEL CASALE Board Member —
JOAN COLE Board Member —
JANE BROWN Board Member —
CICELY DAUTREMONT Board Member —
PAMELA PARRY Board Member —
LAURA MANCE Board Member —
DOUGLAS MANCE Board Member —

Tax year 2021

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
JAMES BLAIR Board President 9.7% of Rev
SUSAN CLAASEN Board President 3.4% of Rev
CICELY DAUTREMONT Board Member —
PAMELA PARRY Board Member —
LAURA MANCE Board Member —
DOUGLAS MANCE Board Member —
TAMMY BRUMMITT Board Member —
RUTH DAVIS Board Member —
ANNE CAVANAGH Board Member —
LILY BRUMMITT Board Member —
DEE DEE SAMET Board Member —
LAURA K ORLICH Board Member —
GAIL FITZHUGH Board Member —
ROCHELLE TAYLOR Board Member —
SANDRA DEL CASALE Board Member —
JOAN COLE Board Member —
JANE BROWN 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 147 other orgs in AZ with NTEE prefix A6.

Most-divergent component: financial score sits 41 points below the peer median (0 vs. 41).

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.