· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| 212 BERLIN FILMS | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Beyond the US: 39% of all-years giving ($221k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against -72% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: International Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization DC Friends of Ireland Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from DC Friends of Ireland Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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