Better Together International

What it reported doing in 2025

At better together international, our primary focus is to provide comprehensive support to orphaned and vulnerable children in haiti, ensuring all their essential needs are met while delivering top-tier education and empowerment opportunities. Currently, our core program centers on directly impacting the lives of these children by:- meeting essential needs: we are dedicated to providing the fundamental necessities that these children require to thrive, including nutritious food, safe shelter within existing community structures, adequate clothing, access to crucial medical care, and consistent emotional and psychological support. Our commitment is to ensuring their well-being on every level.- delivering top-tier education: recognizing the transformative power of education, we operate a school that currently serves nearly 200 children. Our educational program is designed to be of the highest quality, fostering intellectual growth, critical thinking skills, and a lifelong love of learning. We strive to equip these young minds with the knowledge and skills necessary to break cycles of poverty and build successful futures.- empowering for independence: beyond basic needs and education, we actively work to empower these children. Our initiatives focus on building their self confidence, fostering resilience, and developing crucial life skills. We aim to instill a sense of agency and equip them with the tools they will need for long-term independence and self-sufficiency as they mature. A key element in our current program delivery is our valued partnership with food for the poor. This collaboration significantly enhances our ability to provide consistent and reliable resources, ensuring the nutritional and material well-being of the children we support. Our future goal: establishing safe havenslooking ahead, a significant future goal for better together international is the establishment of dedicated safe havens in the haitian countryside. We envision creating purpose-built educational institutions and orphanages that will offer a secure and nurturing environment, shielding children from the dangers prevalent in urban areas. These future safe havens will allow us to further expand our capacity to provide comprehensive support, top-tier education, and empowerment within a stable and protective setting. Our present efforts are intensely focused on maximizing the impact of our current programs, ensuring the children we serve receive the highest quality care, education, and the tools for empowerment. We are simultaneously laying the groundwork and building the necessary resources to realize our future vision of establishing safe havens that will provide an even more secure and comprehensive foundation for their growth and development.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 71.2%; rating input score 71
• Program expense ratio: 97.4%; rating input score 97

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 26.8%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: -28.5% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: -16.9% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 60% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings