Wisconsin · Nonprofit
MILESTONE DEMOCRATIC SCHOOL INC
MILESTONE DEMOCRATIC SCHOOL INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $89,257 to it, the largest being TRUSTAGE FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $829k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $89k
- Net assets
- $-268234
What Milestone Democratic School Inc does
Mission
Establish and maintain a secondary school for the education of especially educationally disadvantaged members of the community, including youth in poverty, migrant and immigrant youth, youth racialized into oppressed identities, youth with disabilities, lgbtq+ youth, and youth living with trauma, that: is founded upon the principles of restorative, consensus- driven, participatory design; provides a curriculum determined by the iterative design of students, teachers, families, and communities; considers the responsibilities of governing the school to be a core learning component of the school, to be shared democratically among students, families, staff, and representatives of the community; and maintains a critical, iterative approach to its structure which allows on- going innovations in democratic participation.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
Milestone democratic school has established a school that provides full time learning. It's educational curriculum is and will continue to be certified under all state of wisconsin department of public instruction requirements for up to 200 students admitted on a non preferential basis grades 6-12. Provides education to children in seventh through twelfth grade in an environment that focuses on democracy and equity.
$834,417 spent$834,417 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $834,417.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $239k to $470k (+97%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 85% · 2022 96% · 2023 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $69k → $20k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of MILESTONE DEMOCRATIC SCHOOL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 7 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
MILESTONE DEMOCRATIC SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
38% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund MILESTONE DEMOCRATIC SCHOOL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 72% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of MILESTONE DEMOCRATIC SCHOOL INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $34k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
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In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MILESTONE DEMOCRATIC SCHOOL INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MILESTONE DEMOCRATIC SCHOOL INC?
- MILESTONE DEMOCRATIC SCHOOL INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $89,257 to it, the largest being TRUSTAGE FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MILESTONE DEMOCRATIC SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $89,257 in grants to MILESTONE DEMOCRATIC SCHOOL INC.
- Who is the largest funder of MILESTONE DEMOCRATIC SCHOOL INC?
- TRUSTAGE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MILESTONE DEMOCRATIC SCHOOL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2020–2023), and the filings of 7 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing