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2018
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US$ 4.64 million (FY2025)
Hybrid
Brazil
Founded in 2018, Movimento Bem Maior (MBM) connects philanthropists, investors, social organizations and public partners to tackle inequality and promote social justice in Brazil. It works as a hub for strategic philanthropy: it mobilizes capital, knowledge and connections, selects organizations with proven capacity to deliver, and follows each investment with technical support and shared indicators.
Its portfolio is organized into four connected fronts. 1) Education strengthens public schooling through teacher development, public management and policy advocacy. 2) Work expands productive inclusion, entrepreneurship and access to credit. 3) Territory funds community-based organizations through the Futuro Bem Maior program and supports community foundations as permanent local infrastructure. 4) Impulso strengthens the philanthropic ecosystem itself, with research, events and advocacy for a better regulatory environment. In 2026, MBM began building Redes, state-level coalitions that bring...
Founded in 2018, Movimento Bem Maior (MBM) connects philanthropists, investors, social organizations and public partners to tackle inequality and promote social justice in Brazil. It works as a hub for strategic philanthropy: it mobilizes capital, knowledge and connections, selects organizations with proven capacity to deliver, and follows each investment with technical support and shared indicators.
Its portfolio is organized into four connected fronts. 1) Education strengthens public schooling through teacher development, public management and policy advocacy. 2) Work expands productive inclusion, entrepreneurship and access to credit. 3) Territory funds community-based organizations through the Futuro Bem Maior program and supports community foundations as permanent local infrastructure. 4) Impulso strengthens the philanthropic ecosystem itself, with research, events and advocacy for a better regulatory environment. In 2026, MBM began building Redes, state-level coalitions that bring local philanthropists, companies and governments into shared co-investment models, with coalitions in three Brazilian states: Bahia, Ceará and Minas Gerais.
Movimento Bem Maior is No. 6 in thedotgood’s Brazil Top 100 Social Good Organizations, and in each of the past two years it published its audited financial statements within four months of its fiscal year-end.
To activate the transformative potential of civil society in Brazil through strategic and collaborative philanthropy, in order to tackle inequalities and promote social justice.
To activate the transformative potential of civil society in Brazil through strategic and collaborative philanthropy, in order to tackle inequalities and promote social justice.
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Auditores Independentes (FY2025, unqualified opinion)
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Movimento Bem Maior began in 2018 with Elie Horn’s wish to build a network that could transform Brazil through philanthropy. Eugênio Mattar and Rubens Menin soon joined him.
In 2019, we launched the first edition of Futuro Bem Maior, an open call for community organizations and informal groups that drew 2,542 applications from every state in the country. When the pandemic hit in 2020, we partnered with IDIS and BSocial to create the Emergency Health Fund, which mobilized more than 10,000 donors to support hospitals and health institutions in 25 states. In 2021, we signed a technical cooperation agreement with Brazil’s National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) to back projects that generate social transformation. A year later, together with Santander, we held the first edition of Legado, which gathered more than 700 business, opinion and social leaders to...
Movimento Bem Maior began in 2018 with Elie Horn’s wish to build a network that could transform Brazil through philanthropy. Eugênio Mattar and Rubens Menin soon joined him.
In 2019, we launched the first edition of Futuro Bem Maior, an open call for community organizations and informal groups that drew 2,542 applications from every state in the country. When the pandemic hit in 2020, we partnered with IDIS and BSocial to create the Emergency Health Fund, which mobilized more than 10,000 donors to support hospitals and health institutions in 25 states. In 2021, we signed a technical cooperation agreement with Brazil’s National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) to back projects that generate social transformation. A year later, together with Santander, we held the first edition of Legado, which gathered more than 700 business, opinion and social leaders to reflect on philanthropy’s role in building a more inclusive society.
Since our founding, we have invested more than R$140 million in over 270 organizations and projects across every Brazilian state. This work has earned recognition along the way: the Folha Empreendedor Social Award in 2021 and, in 2025, the Catalyst Now Awards in the Leaders in Learning category and Philanthropy of the Year at the Person of the Year Awards of the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce.