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21 of 32 known platforms

A clinic count with no denominator invites the question 'out of how many?' and has no answer. This is the answer, and the list it is measured against is not ours.

Platforms covered

21 of 32

66% of known in-scope platforms

Facilities we do not publish

504

at the platforms we have not covered

Not started

in scope, simply not done

Blocked

obstacle recorded per platform

Where the denominator comes from

The spine of this list is the appendix of the Private Equity Stakeholder Project's April 2026 report, Appendix: Private equity-backed ABA providers. Using someone else's published list is the point: we do not get to draw our own finish line. The report is fetched and content-hashed exactly like every other source, so the denominator can be audited rather than taken on trust.

The unit is the platform, the operating company a financial sponsor actually buys. Not the deal, because one platform absorbs many: LEARN Behavioral is eleven brands from at least six transactions. And not the clinic, because that is the thing being measured.

The list is wrong in both directions, and both halves are recorded here. PESP omits 4 platforms we publish, including Caravel Autism Health and its 79 clinics, absent from a table of the largest PE-backed ABA providers. And it names 8 platforms we have not started, holding 504 facilities between them by PESP's own count.

Source: PESP, 2026-04 · sha256 27c7e9594e8b20d9…

Covered

Published on this site, with a clinic count traced to a content-hashed source.

Platform	Investors	Fundprint	PESP	Note
Action Behavior Centers	Charlesbank Capital Partners, Antares Capital	412	403	Read from ABC's own directory. Our 412 and PESP's 403 are the closest independent agreement in the table.
BlueSprig Pediatrics	KKR	197	155	One directory, five brands. PESP names seven more sub-brands than bluesprigautism.com currently lists as centers; worth checking in D3.
LEARN Behavioral	Gryphon Investors, PineBridge Investments	151	133	Eleven brands under one WP Store Locator. PESP lists a Creative Learning Center brand we do not carry.
Behavioral Innovations	Tenex Capital Management, Yukon Partners	139	127	Texas-heavy. The federal registry sees four of these; the gap is the lead example in the undercount argument.
Proud Moments ABA	Nautic Partners	128	98
Hopebridge	Arsenal Capital Partners	101	112	We publish 101, the number Hopebridge's own directory lists. PESP's 112 includes 'opening soon' sites, which we exclude as not yet operating.
Caravel Autism Healthnot in PESP	GTCR	79	n/a	79 clinics, absent from a table of the largest PE-backed ABA providers. Larger than eleven platforms PESP does list.
ACES ABA	General Atlantic	75	59
ABS Kids	Petra Capital Partners, Altos Health, Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital	74	87	Registry legal name is Alternative Behavior Strategies. Diagnostic-only sites excluded as out of scope.
Acorn Health	Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan	70	70	Exact agreement: 70 and 70. A pension fund, not private equity, and labelled as such.
Centria Healthcare	Thomas H. Lee Partners, Michigan Economic Development	64	64	Exact agreement: 64 and 64, reached from opposite directions after the registry's residential rows were replaced by the owner's list.
Helping Hands Family	Zenyth Partners	58	52
Behavior Frontiers	NexPhase Capital, Churchill Asset Management	54	28	We publish 54 against PESP's 28. Reading the owner's directory roughly doubled it.
Autism Learning Partners	FFL Partners	45	64	We publish 45 centers with street addresses. PESP's 64 likely includes in-home service areas, which carry no clinic.
InBloom Autism Services	Elysium Management	28	27	Family office, not private equity. Registry legal name is Vocational Development Group.
Kind Behavioral Health	WSC & Company, Highland Creek Partners, Pacific Lake Partners, Trilogy Search Partners	24	20	Search-fund owned, not private equity. Registry legal name is Carolina Center for Autism Services.
Catalyst Behavior Solutionsnot in PESP	Pharos Capital Group	24	n/a	24 clinics, absent from PESP. Rebranded from Behavior Care Specialists, which is the name the registry still carries.
Center for Social Dynamics	Goldman Sachs Asset Management, CD Private Equity, NMS Capital	20	22	PESP names four sub-brands we do not carry. A D3 target.
Woven Carenot in PESP	Anacapa Partners	12	n/a	12 clinics, absent from PESP. Search fund, not private equity. Registry legal name is Buck Jack LLC, the acquisition vehicle.
Key Autism Services	Cane Investment Partners, SierraStone Capital	0	22	Published with 0 clinics: in-home model. PESP counts 22 facilities; these are one registered office per state, not therapy centers.
Butterfly Effectsnot in PESP	Moran Capital Partners	0	n/a	Published with 0 clinics: in-home model, and its registry rows were apartments. Ownership published, footprint correctly empty.

Not started

In scope and publishable. We have not done the work yet. This is the honest gap, and it is the reason our clinic count is a floor at the platform level as well as at the clinic level.

Platform	Investors	Fundprint	PESP	Note
The TreeTop ABA	Betterment Capital	n/a	114	The largest single gap: 114 facilities across 11 states, none of them published. Highest-value expansion target in the dataset.
Center for Autism & Related Disorders	Audax Private Equity, Pantogran	n/a	105	We carry CARD only as history: the Blackstone buyout and 2023 bankruptcy, with 0 live clinics. It now operates under a Pantogran-led group with Audax. The current footprint is unpublished.
Cultivate Behavioral Health & Education	Imperial Capital Group	n/a	65	65 facilities across 11 states, entirely unpublished.
VersiCare Group	Seven Hills Capital, Tenth Street Capital	n/a	58	58 facilities across FL, MI, KY, TN. Unpublished.
Lighthouse Autism Center	Barings, Cerberus Capital Management	n/a	50	50 centers across the Midwest. Unpublished.
Already Autism Health	ACE & Company, Triton Pacific Capital Partners	n/a	33	33 facilities across seven southeastern states. Unpublished.
360 Behavioral Health	DW Healthcare Partners	n/a	30	30 California facilities. Unpublished.
Kyo	Norwest Venture Partners	n/a	26	Previously held back because the Norwest investment dated to 2019 and nothing since 2021 restated it. PESP's April 2026 appendix lists Norwest as a current investor, which clears that objection.

Blocked

In scope, with a specific obstacle recorded. A claim we cannot content-hash does not ship, however plausible it is.

Platform	Investors	Fundprint	PESP	Note
Autism Care Partners	Coppermine Capital	n/a	23	Ownership is confirmed and PESP corroborates it. Blocked on the registry legal entity name, without which its clinics cannot be matched.
ABA Connectnot in PESP	MBF Healthcare Partners	n/a	n/a	Blocked on provenance, not on truth. Its only ownership source is a Businesswire release that returns 403 even to curl, and a claim we cannot content-hash does not ship.
Patterns Behavioral Servicesnot in PESP	Webster Equity Partners	n/a	n/a	Blocked on inference depth. Establishing current ownership takes three hops and no single current source names it outright.

Mixed scope

Not primarily operators of ABA therapy centres. Staffing agencies, school operators, and diversified rehab groups that own ABA brands. Only the named ABA sub-brands would ever be in scope, so counting the whole platform against us would be misleading.

Platform	Investors	Fundprint	PESP	Note
ChanceLight	The Halifax Group	n/a	97	Alternative and special education schools. Its sites are schools, not ABA therapy centers.
New Story	Audax Private Equity	n/a	59	Special education schools with one ABA brand attached.
Ivy Rehab Network	Waud Capital Partners, ACE & Company	n/a	36	Physical and pediatric therapy network with ABA sub-brands. Only those brands would be in scope.
Sevita	Centerbridge Partners, Aeterna Capital Partners, Equity Investment Group, Duchossois Capital Management, Finback Investment Partners	n/a	34	A 40,000-employee diversified home and community health provider. Only its named ABA brands could ever be in scope.
The Stepping Stones Group	Leonard Green & Partners, Crescent Capital Group, Five Arrows	n/a	32	Primarily a school therapy staffing agency across 30-plus brands. Staffing contracts are not clinics.
FullBloom	Vistria Group	n/a	n/a	In-school services. PESP lists no facility count for it either.

Out of scope

Excluded by a methodology rule rather than by effort: an in-home provider operates no clinics, and a minority investment is not ownership.

Platform	Investors	Fundprint	PESP	Note
Cortica	CVS Health Ventures, Deerfield Management, Morgan Health, RA Capital Management, Questa Capital	n/a	25	Fifteen venture and strategic minority investors, no controlling institutional owner. Our methodology requires a controlling interest, so we exclude it. PESP includes it; this is a definitional disagreement, not an error on either side.
Alora Behavioral Health	Enhanced Healthcare Partners, Riverside Credit Solutions	n/a	n/a	PESP lists it as 'In home'. An in-home provider operates no clinics, the same rule under which we publish Key Autism and Butterfly Effects with a footprint of zero.
My Favorite Therapistsnot in PESP	5th Century Partners	n/a	n/a	Minority stake, founders retain control.
Able Kidsnot in PESP	MKH Capital Partners	n/a	n/a	Minority stake, founders retain control.
Fortanot in PESP	Insight Partners	n/a	n/a	Venture minority stake, founders retain control.

The two count columns are not directly comparable and are shown side by side anyway. PESP counts facilities a company lists as open or opening soon, from PitchBook and LevinPro; Fundprint counts physical sites currently operating, keyed on owner, street and ZIP. PESP states its own table is likely an undercount. Where the two disagree sharply, the disagreement is the finding, not an error to be smoothed away.