Brackett Foundation

What it reported doing in 2025

Programs in Thailand Projects: BREF supports several projects that are devoted to helping refugees acquire education and skills in Thailand. Many of these are programs within refugee camps. In the Mae La Refugee camp we support a program linking English language students virtually with volunteer ESL teachers from all over the world for practice in conversational English as well as supporting computer programs. We continued our support of the Ban Nai Soi Community Learning Center in Mae Hong Son which helps students in a wide variety of ways including Thai language instruction and completion of high school requirements. We continued to support the migrant school at the Mae Tao Clinic. Successfully passing the American GED exam allows students who did not go to high school in Thailand qualify for university admission. In 2025 BREF supported 25 students at the BEAM Education Foundation in Chiang Mai to pay for the costs of the GED exams. BREF also continues to support a program in Bangkok that provides English and Thai instruction and basic computer skills to migrant Burmese workers. At the High school level, BREF contributes to Minmahaw High School in Mae Pa as it transitions from visiting volunteer teachers to full time local teachers. BREF also supports Mae Kwee High School on the border of Karen state in Myanmar and Thailand. BREF supported the school from 2003-2018 but as life became more stable in Karen state, the school closed in 2018. An increase in the refugee population after the 2019 military coup in Myanmar prompted the reopening of the school and renewed support from BREF. In 2025 BREF provided funding for 15 teachers at Mae Kwee School.Political unrest continues to challenge education for internally displaced students. Local communities have worked hard to keep their schools open and continue to work to overcome interruptions in their children's education. We supported 9 elementary and middle schools serving over 700 children in IDP areas where there is no support for education from the government. In the months since the coup, some of these schools temporarily closed or relocated due to government shelling. One of these is a unique animist school where Karen traditions are taught by elders from the community. BREF supported a new Food Security Project in 2025 for 3 middle schools and their villages. This two year project will establish vegetable gardens and orchards, irrigation systems and fencing in order to provide year round food security for the community.We continue to support Children On The Edge (COTE) who provides early childhood education for refugee children.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
• Program expense ratio: 97.9%; rating input score 98
• Fundraising efficiency: $74.6 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 10th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
  • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
  • Requires narrative reports: Fail
  • Conducts field audits: Fail
  • May suspend future funding: Fail
  • Requires financial reports: Fail
  • Conducts site visits: Pass
  • Requires grant agreements: Fail
  • May require repayment: Fail
• Grant itemization coverage: 98.1%; rating input score 98; 60th percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -23.6%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.01; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings