Maine · Nonprofit
MILESTONE RECOVERY
MILESTONE RECOVERY (Maine) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,001,576 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($813,500). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.7M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Milestone Recovery does
Mission
We provide compassionate care and services to empower individuals experiencing substance use disorders, mental illnesses and homelessness to attain an enhanced quality of life regardless of ability to pay.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Detoxification - a medically monitored withdrawal program, lasting 3-7 days, for mainers struggling with substance use disorders, offered regardless of ability to pay. Clients receive medical care, with counseling and aftercare planning.
$3,523,970 spent$1,457,782 earned by the program47% of program spendingEmergency shelter - Milestone Recovery operates southern maine's only specialized substance use disorder emergency shelter. The shelter provides individuals with a safe place to sleep, nutritious meals, clean clothes, showers, and counseling while being treated with dignity. Housing navigator - the housing navigator program assists milestone's clients experiencing chronic homelessness in accessing stabilization services and transitioning out of homelessness and into permanent housing.
$1,387,540 spent19% of program spendingResidential treatment - this clinically managed, high intensity, long-term residential program employs a variety of evidence-based treatments to serve male clients with substance use disorders who have not been successful at maintaining recovery after participating in other programs. Transitional housing - milestone's 3/4 -way housing provides more independent housing to graduates of the residential treatment program as they prepare to transition into the community. Programs are based in portland and old orchard beach.
$1,526,294 spent$2,786,937 earned by the program20% of program spendingHome team - the homeless outreach and mobile engagement (home) team provides street-level outreach and community support to people experiencing homelessness and substance use disorders in greater portland. We provide transportation and service navigation to help clients access food, shelter, clothing, health care, and other vital services.
$1,040,655 spent$42,876 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,478,459.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $3.6M to $5.9M (+67%).
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: 2019 65% · 2020 56% · 2021 71% · 2022 58% · 2023 45% · 2024 60% · 2025 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of MILESTONE RECOVERY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
Tom Doherty Dot 52025
Fmr exec dir
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $471k → $472k.
8 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $6k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Mahc Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MILESTONE RECOVERY raised.
From the IRS filings of MILESTONE RECOVERY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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 RECOVERY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
75% 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 RECOVERY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 25% · 2019 39% · 2020 28% · 2021 30% · 2022 35% · 2023 29% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
52% of MILESTONE RECOVERY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
91% of MILESTONE RECOVERY's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Against its field
MILESTONE RECOVERY has grown faster than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MILESTONE RECOVERY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $690k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$690k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MILESTONE RECOVERY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Mr Realty Holdings LLC · disregarded
- Mahc Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MILESTONE RECOVERY: 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 RECOVERY?
- MILESTONE RECOVERY (Maine) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,001,576 to it, the largest being Maine Community Foundation Inc ($813,500). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MILESTONE RECOVERY have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $3,001,576 in grants to MILESTONE RECOVERY, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MILESTONE RECOVERY?
- Maine Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $813,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MILESTONE RECOVERY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 37 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