ISPIS - Synchronicity Institute

What ISPIS - Synchronicity Institute does

ISPIS (Instituto Sincronicidade Para Interação Social) is a Brazilian non-profit institute founded around 2000 and headquartered in São Paulo that operates as an 'Organização-ponte' (bridge organization or fiscal sponsor). Its core function is to lend its organizational, legal, administrative, and fiscal structure to social impact projects and initiatives that lack legal personality, enabling them to receive funding, operate with compliance, and execute under a shared institutional umbrella. The organization packages this into four service lines: a Legal Administrative Platform for project execution, Social Investment Research and Optimization services for funders, Institutional Mentorship and Development programs, and Legal Security/Transparency/Compliance services. It also publishes the 'Guia de Boas Práticas - Organizações-ponte no Brasil', a reference guide that positions ISPIS as the standard-setter for the fiscal-sponsorship category in Brazil.

ISPIS serves two customer segments. The primary segment consists of social impact projects and entrepreneurs without legal personality, including advocacy initiatives (Advocacy HUB PB, Me Representa, Virada Política), LGBTQ+ engagement projects (Vote LGBT, All Out), community-development efforts (Campo Favela), and social business ventures (Artemisia, Bigu, Pioneers of Change, Tamo Juntas). The secondary segment comprises social investors and funders—including Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundations, CAF, Fundação Telefônica, Fundo Elas, UN-Habitat, Prefeitura de São Paulo, Porticus, and Oak Foundation—who benefit from a curated pipeline of vetted, governance-compliant projects.

The business model is donation- and grant-based; ISPIS operates as a private non-profit with no disclosed pricing, no app, no API, and no proprietary technology layer beyond a website and Jotform-based submission infrastructure. It reaches both segments through direct digital channels—project submission forms at cloud.ispis.org and a funder solutions page at ispis.org/solucoes—supplemented by LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube presence. The team comprises 6 employees, and the organization is independently managed with no parent company or institutional investor ownership.

Name

ISPIS - Synchronicity Institute

Legal name

Instituto Sincronicidade Para Interação Social

Website

https://ispis.org.br

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

ISPIS is a São Paulo-based non-profit fiscal sponsor that lends its legal, administrative, and tax infrastructure to social impact projects in Brazil lacking legal personality, serving roughly 25 partner projects and major institutional funders.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Fiscal Sponsorship Services

NAICS

Social Advocacy Organizations (8133)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Democratic Governance & Public Administration Reform (BPADAGAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Human Rights, Democracy & Rule of Law IGOs (BPADAAAG)

Keywords

• Fiscal sponsorship services
• Nonprofit bridge organization
• Social impact projects
• Institutional development mentorship
• Legal administrative platform

Headquarters

HQ city

São Paulo

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Donations and charitable contributions: ISPIS operates as a non-profit institute receiving donations and charitable contributions to support its fiscal sponsorship services and operational costs.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

ISPIS functions as a Brazilian nonprofit bridge organization (Organização-ponte) that provides fiscal sponsorship to social impact projects lacking legal personality, sharing its organizational, legal, administrative, and fiscal structure so projects can operate compliantly. It complements this with research and analysis services for funders, institutional mentorship and development guidance, and rigorous legal security, transparency, and compliance support.

Product overview

ISPIS (Instituto Sincronicidade Para Interação Social) operates as a unified service platform providing four interconnected offerings: (1) a Legal Administrative Platform enabling fiscal sponsorship for projects without legal personality, (2) social investment research and optimization services for funders, (3) institutional mentorship and development programs, and (4) legal security and compliance services. Additionally, they publish the 'Guia de Boas Práticas - Organizações-ponte no Brasil' guide. The platform functions as a bridge organization (Fiscal Sponsorship) model, sharing organizational, legal, administrative, and fiscal infrastructure to support social impact projects.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Named customers10 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and major.

• Advocacy HUB PBcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner project receiving fiscal sponsorship and administrative support from ISPIS for advocacy initiatives in Paraíba, Brazil.
• All OutcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner project receiving fiscal sponsorship and administrative support from ISPIS for LGBTQ+ rights advocacy.
• ArtemisiacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner organization receiving fiscal sponsorship for social business ventures and impact entrepreneurship.
• Campo FavelacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner project receiving fiscal sponsorship for favela community development initiatives.
• Me RepresentacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner project receiving fiscal sponsorship for political representation and civic engagement initiatives.
• Virada PolíticacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner project receiving fiscal sponsorship for political engagement and civic education.
• UN-HabitatmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerUnited Nations agency for human settlements, partnering on urban development and housing initiatives.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• GlobalGiving: Global crowdfunding and intermediary platform for nonprofits; offers fiscal sponsorship-adjacent services (vetting, disbursement, reporting) to projects lacking direct 501(c)(3) status, comparable to ISPIS's role for Brazil-based projects.
• BrazilFoundation: US-Brazil civil society intermediary that channels donor capital to vetted Brazilian social impact projects, performing curation and administrative oversight — closest US-facing analogue to ISPIS for Brazilian civil society.
• Give2Asia: Fiscal intermediary enabling US donors and foundations to grant to projects across Asia with local compliance and due diligence — same operating model as ISPIS (cross-border funder-to-project intermediation), targeted at a different region.
• Tides Foundation: Pioneering US-based fiscal sponsorship intermediary that hosts charitable projects under its legal and administrative umbrella — directly analogous to ISPIS's Organização-ponte model, with broader scale and longer history.
• CAF America: Cross-border giving intermediary that enables US donors to support international nonprofits through fiscal sponsorship and due diligence — parallels ISPIS's function of connecting funders with vetted projects that lack direct legal standing.

Broad incumbents

• Instituto Unibanco: Established Brazilian institute focused on public education reform with significant operational scale; another institutional Brazilian civil society heavyweight operating in adjacent social-impact territory with deeper resources.
• Fundação Lemann: Largest Brazilian philanthropic foundation, operating its own education and social programs rather than serving as fiscal sponsor; sets the standard for trusted civil society actors in Brazil that ISPIS partners with and competes for funder mindshare against.

Emerging players

• Netri Foundation: Brazilian impact platform focused on building capacity of social enterprises and impact ventures; shares ISPIS's ecosystem-builder role for high-potential Brazilian social projects, though more venture-stage oriented.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@ISPISInstitutoSincronicidade%20
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ispis
• Instagraminstagram.com/ispis.institutosincronicidade

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Funding overview

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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