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DC Friends of Ireland Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 212 BERLIN FILMS | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your US giving — 61% of grant dollars ($341k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 39% that went abroad ($221k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Beyond the US — 39% of all-years giving ($221k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against -72% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- WIWASHINGTON IRELAND PROGRAM FOR SERVICE & LEADERSHIP5× · 2017–2022 · $95k · revenue +91%
- CFCENTER FOR MILITARY RECRUITMENT ASSESSMENT AND VETERANS EMPLOYMENT3× · 2017–2020 · $65k · revenue +65%
- BBBELFAST-BELTWAY BOXING PROJECT4× · 2017–2020 · $43k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF RISE - IRELAND INCone grant, 2019 · $10k
- LOLABOR OF LOVEone grant, 2022 · $5k
- TBTHE BRENDAN LOONEY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -72%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The institute provides leadership and resources to preserve, interpret, and promote irish and irish american cultures.
The Ireland Institute of Pittsburghs mission is to promote mutual understanding of the Catholic and Protestant traditions in Northern Ireland and economic development throughout all of Ireland. The Institute fulfills its mission by…
The purpose of the organization is to maintain and promote the irish cultural traditions.
Encourage the development of closer economic business and investment ties between the united states and the island of ireland.
To educate the public and foster an appreciation of and respect for irish history, culture, language and traditional irish art forms.
The irish repertory theatre (the "theatre") mission is to bring works by irish and irish american masters and contemporary playwrights to american audiences, to provide a context for understanding the contemporary irish american experience…
Irish arts center, founded in 1972 and based in hell's kitchen, new york city, is a home for artists and audiences of all backgrounds who share a passion or appreciation for the evolving arts and culture of contemporary ireland and irish…
The mission of ireland's great hunger museum at quinnipiac university is to collect, preserve, exhibit and study its collection of art, artifacts and literature relating to the irish famine/great hunger that occurred from 1845 - 1852. (…
To organize irish america on behalf of it's irish heritage to support education programs, cross-community programs, and job creation programs in ireland and northern ireland, and to provide speaking and interactive forums in the united…
The aim of african american irish diaspora network is to foster relationships between african americans and ireland through shared heritage and culture. it will provide a framework for the exchange of information, research, exploration and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington Ireland Program for Service & Leadership and the most unlike its peers is The Labor Heritage Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds WASHINGTON IRELAND PROGRAM FOR SERVICE & LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR MILITARY RECRUITMENT ASSESSMENT AND VETERANS EMPLOYMENT ↗
- Who funds BELFAST-BELTWAY BOXING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOLAS NUA INC ↗
- Who funds THE LABOR HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BRENDAN LOONEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization DC Friends of Ireland Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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