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
60
Score

Institutional Epochs

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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 23.2% 27 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2022 22.0% 24 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2021 11.6% 27 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2020 10.3% 23 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2019 1.9% 32 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2018 2.3% 32 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2017 2.6% 32 Critical Intervention Needed Stable Watch
2016 2.4% 32 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2015 4.3% 24 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2014 3.0% 30 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2013 1.1% 34 Critical Intervention Needed Recovery
2012 31 Critical Intervention Needed Decline Risk
2011 51 Fragile Stable Watch

Officer compensation history

Tax year 2026

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
Bruno Oliver Board President 6.0% of Rev
Michael Leggett Board Member 6.0% of Rev
Padraic Duffy Board Member 6.0% of Rev
Emily Kosloski Board Member 4.0% of Rev
Sidney Edwards Artistic Director 4.0% of Rev
Paul Plunkett Secretary
John Sylvain Board Member
Ariadne Shaffer Board Member
Detra Payne Board Member
Victor Isaac Board Member
Michael Caldwell Board Member

Tax year 2025

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
Emily Kosloski Board Member 10.5% of Rev
Michael Leggett Board Member 6.5% of Rev
Padraic Duffy Board Member 5.5% of Rev
Bruno Oliver Board President 5.2% of Rev
Paul Plunkett Secretary
John Sylvain Board Member
Ariadne Shaffer Board Member
Detra Payne Board Member

Tax year 2023

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
Emily Kosloski Business Manager Educaition 8.8% of Rev
Padraic Duffy Board Member 4.0% of Rev
Michael Leggett Board Member 4.0% of Rev
Bruno Oliver Facilities 2.3% of Rev
Bruno Oliver Board President
Paul Plunkett Secretary
Brian Finkelstein Board Member
John Syvain Board Member
David Baron Board Member
Detra Payne Board Member
Ariadne Shaffer Board Member

Tax year 2022

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
Emily Kosloski Business Manager 6.3% of Rev
Padraic Duffy Board Member 1.7% of Rev
Michael Leggett Board Member 0.9% of Rev
Bruno Oliver Board President
Paul Plunkett Secretary
Brian Finkelstein Board Member
John Sylvain Board Member
David Baron Board Member
Detra Payne Board Member
CJ Merriman Board Member

Tax year 2021

Name Title Phone Email Compensation
Emily Kosloski Business Manager 3.5% of Rev
Bruno Oliver Board President
Paul Plunkett Secretary
Brian Finkelstein Board Member
John Sylvain Board Member
David Baron Board Member
Detra Payne Board Member
Jessica Sherman Board Member
Padraic Duffy Board Member
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Score breakdown

Score breakdown

Financial resilience
0 / 100
weight 40%
Governance risk
45 / 100
weight 40%
Program scale
60 / 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 829 other orgs in CA with NTEE prefix A6.

Most-divergent component: financial score sits 33 points below the peer median (0 vs. 33).

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.