EXCLUSIVE: Brad Pitt's Charity Raises $20 Million For Hurricane Katrina Survivors
May 28 2018, Updated 10:17 a.m. ET
Hollywood megastar Brad Pitt and the charitable foundation he helped create donated more than $24 million in 2009 to survivors of Hurricane Katrina to help them secure mortgages for new homes, Breaking Celebrity News has exclusively learned.
EXCLUSIVE DOCUMENTS: Make It Right Foundation's Tax Returns
What's more, Pitt and Co. were able to raise an additional $20 million for the people of New Orleans, who continue to rise from the ruins more than five years after the natural disaster.
According to tax forms obtained by Breaking Celebrity News, the Make It Right Foundation's assets soared from $19,781,522 to $40,781,113 in 2009 -- a gain of $20 million.
"Its primary goal is to provide high-quality, energy-efficient housing to families in need, and to improve the development of communities in which they live," the organization says in its mission statement.
The foundation lists 15 primary goals they achieved with the money raised in 2009 including:
- building the first permitted f