Foundation Focus
The Zangrillo Family Foundation’s mission is to create a sustainable, evolved future for humanity and our planet.
We do this by helping to save the Amazon rainforest, empower indigenous peoples, and support social entrepreneurship for communities in the Amazon rainforest by donating to select projects that support the bio-economy.
In addition, locally, in Little Haiti we are working to enable the next generation of leaders through empowerment backpacks, technology labs, and support for local charities.
Through these initiatives, we aim to foster sustainability, education, and leadership, creating a brighter future for all.
Climate Impact
The Robert Zangrillo Family Foundation has funded over $100,000 to environment initiatives that empower indigenous peoples to protect and preserve the Amazonian rainforest. Our goal is to provide enough work for indigenous families, the protectors of the jungle, so that they can be independent and have a stable source of income and stop them from accepting offers from oil and mining companies and other threats that will destroy the primary forest and pollute the most biodiverse place in Earth.
We do this by supporting indigenous people and empowering local organizations that are working in conservation projects to protect the indigenous forest and build cultural, medicinal and food sovereignty through reforestation with carefully selective native tree species and territory mapping.
$31 Million Little Haiti Trust
Developers of Magic City Innovation District, Dragon Global, Plaza Equity Partners, and Lune Rouge commit and fund the Little Haiti Revitalization Trust to fund $31 million from trio of Miami-based real estate firms.
To be governed by a five-person board, the Trust would decide how to spend the money to provide affordable housing, job, business training, and other benefits to Little Haiti.
Tech Lab for Teenagers in Little Haiti Miami
The Robert Zangrillo Family Foundation has funded over $100,000 to the next generation of technologists at the Pierre Toussaint Leadership and Learning Center
The goal of the donation is to support the building of a Tech Campus at the Pierre Toussaint Leadership and Learning Center- Notre Dame d’Haiti Catholic Church in partnership with Magic City Innovation District.
Gen Z Empowerment Backpacks and Mentorship Classes
The Robert Zangrillo Family Foundation has funded over $250,000 to support the building and delivering of Empowerment Backpacks, including a Mentorship Program, to 14 to 18-year-old teenagers in Miami.
The Zangrillo Family Foundation has recently funded the distribution of 5,000 backpacks for under privileged children in Los Angeles, California and will be supporting an additional endeavor in Miami this summer.
Little Light House Foundation
The Robert Zangrillo Family Foundation has funded over $100,000 to The Little Lighthouse Foundation, a nonprofit organization that assists underserved children and their families throughout South Florida. Our support helped anchor a record- breaking $850,000 —during its annual Hearts & Stars Gala, held at Space Park in Miami’s Magic City Innovation District – Little Haiti in November.