Washington Brazil Office

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
871670487
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Washington, DC, USA
Rating
90
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alliance/Advocacy Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$188,420
Expenses
$191,303
Assets
$1,042

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

17 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Paulo Abrao (Executive Director)
  • James N Green (President)

People named in this filing

  • Iman Musa Jadallah (Public Affairs Specialist)
  • Paulo Abrao (Executive Director)
  • James N Green (President)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

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.

What it reported doing in 2025

The 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.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Sustainability: 14
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 98.9%; rating input score 99

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1.5%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 40.7%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 57.3% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -27.5% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -57.9% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 98.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $189K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 17 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.