Connecticut · Nonprofit
MILESTONES BEHAVIORAL SERVICES INC
MILESTONES BEHAVIORAL SERVICES INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,234 to it, the largest being Nessel Family Foundation Inc ($12,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $17M
What Milestones Behavioral Services Inc does
Mission
Non-profit school for autistic children, early intervention aba services, and consulting.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Dedicated to assisting schools and families implementing behavioral interventions for children with autism and related disorders. Children are taught at the lower school and upper school locations. Milestones behavioral services, inc. Also provides educational evaluation and consulting to private and public educational programs.
$14,671,809 spent$17,844,774 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $14,671,809.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2022 to 2023, from $21M to $16M (−21%).
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 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of MILESTONES BEHAVIORAL SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Lisa Gregory
Pt yr CEO, e
Board chair
Anna Friedberg
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $14k → $102.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 MILESTONES BEHAVIORAL SERVICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
MILESTONES BEHAVIORAL SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
39% 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 MILESTONES BEHAVIORAL SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 56% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 66% · 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
62% of MILESTONES BEHAVIORAL SERVICES INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $484 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
MILESTONES BEHAVIORAL SERVICES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like MILESTONES BEHAVIORAL SERVICES INC
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% 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 MILESTONES BEHAVIORAL SERVICES 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 MILESTONES BEHAVIORAL SERVICES INC?
- MILESTONES BEHAVIORAL SERVICES INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,234 to it, the largest being Nessel Family Foundation Inc ($12,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MILESTONES BEHAVIORAL SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $20,234 in grants to MILESTONES BEHAVIORAL SERVICES INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MILESTONES BEHAVIORAL SERVICES INC?
- Nessel Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $12,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MILESTONES BEHAVIORAL SERVICES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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