New York · Nonprofit
Brackett Foundation
Brackett Foundation (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,924,594 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,407,100). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $472k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Brackett Foundation does
Mission
Believing that the best hope for peace and happiness for mankind lies in education, we are dedicated to assisting refugees or displaced persons of any race,nationality, or creed to acquire an education. The focus is on refugees from Burma in Thailand, India,and Bangladesh.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Programs in Thailand - Scholarships: BREF distributed a total of 113 scholarships to High School, Vocational college and University students. 40 High School students received scholarships. With BREF's growing focus on Vocational and Technical education, 10 scholarships were awarded to students attending Phayao Technical College and 13 students at Maesot Technical College. We have also begun the process of interviewing candidates for scholarships at MaeSaring Vocational College. 50 university students received BREF scholarships in 2025. Majors included Public Health, Social Science and Sustainable Development, Education, English for International Communication among others. Our in-country coordinator for the scholarship programs in Thailand has revitalized the BREF Facebook page with updates on our activities and student accomplishments, identified candidates in line with BREF's mission and served as a contact and coordinator with other projects that BREF supports.
$82,680 spentof which $68,844 as grants14% of program spendingPrograms 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…
$103,322 spentof which $103,322 as grants18% of program spendingPrograms in Bangladesh: BREF supports educational assistance to over 7000 Rohingya children provided by Children On The Edge (COTE) in Kutupalaong refugee camp, the slums of Cox's Bazar, the Dohazari Enclaves, and Basan Char Island. COTE has had significant recent success developing a written script for Rohingya students in their native tongue. This generation will be the first Rohingya who will write in their native language. The Rohingya refugee population has been significantly impacted by the withdrawal of support from USAID and COTE finds greatly increased need for educational resources for the Rohingya community in Bangladesh.
$336,754 spentof which $336,000 as grants59% of program spendingPrograms in IndiaBREF distributed a total of 779 scholarships to support education for Chin refugees from Myanmar for the 2025/26 academic year. Most of the students live in the Indian state of Mizoram. Students' eligibility was based on the ability to show significant financial need, as well as academic ability and drive. Special focus was given during selection to students who have recently been displaced by the conflict in Myanmar. 441 scholarships were given to children from grades K to 7 whose parentsmany of whom have recently migrated from Myanmar and live in border areas or in Aizawlappreciate relief from the costs of textbooks, uniforms and exam fees. 186 scholarships were directed towards high school students (Grades 8 to 10), and 65 of these students are completing Grade 10 in 2026, becoming high school graduates. There were 100 university preparatory-level (Grades 11 and 12) scholarships distributed. 46 of these students are graduating from Grade 12 in 2026 and will be able to apply to university programs anywhere in India. BREF financially supported 52 students in their university studies. Students who were awarded these post-secondary scholarships would have been…
$47,949 spentof which $45,107 as grants8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $570,705.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.3M to $1.6M (+28%).
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.
98% of Brackett Foundation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Russell Brackett
Executive Director/Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $29k → $267k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 Brackett Foundation’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
Brackett Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 Brackett Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 82% · 2019 55% · 2020 88% · 2021 83% · 2022 67% · 2023 80% — broadly stable.
“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
71% of Brackett Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% 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
92% of Brackett Foundation's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $147k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Brackett Foundation receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.9M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,673 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Brackett Foundation
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Brackett Foundation: 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 Brackett Foundation?
- Brackett Foundation (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,924,594 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,407,100). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Brackett Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,924,594 in grants to Brackett Foundation, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Brackett Foundation?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,407,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Brackett Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 10 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing