$8 Mil Charity Donations from Brangelina

$8 Mil Charity Donations from Brangelina

News cameras have captured Brad Pitt building homes in New Orleans, and now the federal tax filings for the Jolie Pitt Foundation reveal the good works that Brad and Angelina Jolie are doing behind the scenes.

The happy couple donated more than $8 million in 2006, Brad giving in $4,402,317, and Angelina $4,123,613 .(These latest figures don’t include 2007 – in which, among other charitable efforts, Brad’s Make It Right Foundation raised $5 million.)

In terms of dispensing their funds, according to records for 2006, the foundation handed out $2,367,935, including $1 million to both Doctors Without Borders (International Division) and to the Global AIDS Alliance.

Additional gifts included $137,935 to the Namibia Red Cross Action Program (their daughter Shiloh was born in the African country); $100,000 to the Daniel Pearl Foundation (the late journalist’s widow, Marianne Pearl, was played by Jolie in A Mighty Heart); $100,000 to Global Green U.S.A. and to the Epidermolysis Bulloma Medical Research Foundation.

In addition, $20,000 went to an art park in Los Angeles, as did separate $5,000 donations to two orphanages that Jolie had visited.

Morgan Freeman declared:

“We were in contact with Brad about the situation in New Orleans” – and he called Jolie “such a wonderful woman.”