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Private foundations don’t post open calls, so nobody can search them. We read IRS filings instead — 9.6 million grants from 174,053 foundations and grantmaking charities, searchable by what the money was actually for.
12 funders with a record of paying for “brazil”
Where the money went
Largest: $50,000 to FIRST LOOK MEDIA BRASIL AGENCIA DE NOTICIAS EIRELI — for the intercept brazil (tib) for reporting on human rights violations, violence and racial justice in brazil
Largest: $3.9M to WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY — to support the conservation and effective management of wetlands in beni, bolivia, and the amazon estuary in brazil through scientific research, knowledge, improved livelihoods, co…
Largest: $207,000 to FIRST LOOK INSTITUTE INC — to support the grantee's fiscally sponsored project, the intercept brazil, to strengthen press freedom and independent journalism in brazil
Largest: $520,000 to Instituto Elos Brazil — general operating support
Largest: $21,450 to DAVID CHRISTOPHER THOMPSON — thompson, david (independent scholar) "break the chain: an ethnography of brazil's interfaith decarceration movement"
Largest: $400,000 to Institute for the Development of Social Investment IDIS — to support community philanthropy development in brazil.
Largest: $5.9M to AMERICAN FRIENDS OF JEWISH HOSPITALS AND EDUCATION CENTERS OF BRAZIL — general donation
Largest: $304,000 to BRAZIL FOUNDATION — support the youth employment organizations in rio de janeiro, brazil
Largest: $25,000 to DOUGLAS BELCHIOR — to strengthen the networks and connections between black leadership, organizations, and movements in brazil and the united states by developing emerging leadership through public e…
Largest: $11,000 to FRIENDS OF BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC — brazil & iraq fund
Largest: $300,000 to Associacao Comite Rio da Acao da Cidadania Contra — disaster relief support for communities affected by floods in brazil
Largest: $150,000 to FASE FEDERACAO DE ORGAOS PARA ASSISTENCIA SOCIAL E EDUCACIONAL — water for what and for whom? safeguarding water as a human right and a common resource in brazil
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →