Mapping the Pan Amazon Philanthropy Support Ecosystem: Overview of Initial Findings
The Amazon region – home to 47 million people, including 2.2 million Indigenous peoples from over 350 ethnic groups – is one of the world’s most vital ecological and cultural biomes. Yet it is reaching a critical tipping point, as available climate funding remains insufficient, fragmented, and too often fails to reach local communities. While global philanthropic investment in climate action is increasing, very little of this growth currently flows to Amazon-based or locally led initiatives. A strong Philanthropy Support Ecosystem is therefore needed to bridge this gap—by making local philanthropy actors more visible, identifying barriers to resource flow, and informing a roadmap for collective action. By strengthening this ecosystem, the region can attract and channel international climate philanthropy more effectively, while also unlocking domestic giving, building trust, and mobilising coordinated funding at the scale the Amazon urgently needs.