 In 2019, DiCaprio’s environmental NGO "Earth Alliance" has pledged $5 million in order to help protect the Amazon after fires destroyed large parts of the rainforest in July and August of that year.In 1998, DiCaprio and his mother donated $35,000 for a "Leonardo DiCaprio Computer Center" at the library in Los Feliz, the site of his childhood home.It was rebuilt after the 1994 Northridge earthquake and opened in early 1999.