Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Washington Brazil Office
Washington Brazil Office (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $577,569 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION TO PROMOTE OPEN SOCIETY ($344,727). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $188k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $578k
- Net assets
- $1k
What Washington Brazil Office does
Mission
To promote and defend democracy human rights socio-environmental justice and equity in Brazil and in U.S.-Brazil relations through advocacy research and transnational collaboration.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The WBO strengthened democracy human rights and socioenvironmental justice in Brazil through international advocacy in the U.S. and multilateral arenas. In 2025 the WBO supported congressional engagement on Brazil including work related to disinformation democratic institutions tariffs and threats to the rule of law. The WBO also co-organized a multi-sector Brazilian civil society delegation to NYC and Washington D.C. from September 24 to October 1 2025 bringing together organizations working on Indigenous rights environmental protection LGBTQI equality democracy and territorial defense. The delegation participated in meetings with U.S. congressional offices the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights the Mission of Brazil to the OAS the Atlantic Council AFL-CIO and other civil society and policy organizations.
$78,765 spent42% of program spendingThe WBO carried out capacity-building research and communications activities to strengthen the ability of Brazilian civil society and international audiences to understand and respond to challenges related to democracy human rights and socioenvironmental justice in Brazil. In 2025 the WBO organized an online course on the Inter-American System of Human Rights held 8 sessions totaling 24 hours for Brazilian civil society leaders legal professionals students and human rights advocates. The course reached an average of 30-40 participants per session and 26 participants received certificates of completion. The WBO also maintained public-facing communications including its weekly newsletter podcast website opinion articles press releases and social media channels. By December 2025 the newsletter reached 1,957 subscribers in English and 428 subscribers in Portuguese while the website recorded 28,000 unique visitors and 46,000 page views.
$61,716 spent33% of program spendingThe WBO advanced a joint project with Instituto Lavoro titled Strengthening International Advocacy on Labor and Social Rights approved by the Open Society Foundations in 2025. Through this project the WBO supported Brazilian labor organizations and social movements in developing international advocacy strategies including the presentation of cases and thematic reports to international bodies. The project also aims to connect labor rights to broader debates on climate democracy and economic justice in multilateral forums and to build an integrated advocacy calendar between Brazil Washington and key European institutions. This work will Brazilian labor organizations social movements and allied civil society actors by expanding their capacity to engage international mechanisms and policy spaces.
$48,800 spent26% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $189,281.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $166k to $4k (−98%).
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.
100% of Washington Brazil Office’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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
Paulo Abrao
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $233k → $345k.
From the IRS filings of Washington Brazil Office’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
Washington Brazil Office leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
40% 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 Washington Brazil Office.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 56% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
Washington Brazil Office draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Washington Brazil Office's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 Washington Brazil Office: 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 Washington Brazil Office?
- Washington Brazil Office (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $577,569 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION TO PROMOTE OPEN SOCIETY ($344,727). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Washington Brazil Office have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $577,569 in grants to Washington Brazil Office.
- Who is the largest funder of Washington Brazil Office?
- FOUNDATION TO PROMOTE OPEN SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $344,727 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Washington Brazil Office find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 3 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing