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The American Ireland Fund (Dba the Ireland Funds America/The Ireland Funds)

Dedicated to supporting programs of peace and reconciliation, arts and culture, education and community development primarily in the island of ireland.

$27M
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$639k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0187% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$5.4MEducation$3.5MHuman Services$1.5MHealth$430kInternational$411kEmployment$353kYouth Development$150kPhilanthropy$129kRecreation & Sports$60kOther$1.8M
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 18 grants below total $1,494,750 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $26,867,499 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $25,372,749 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $159k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $323k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
$12,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IRISH ARTS CENTER$638,750
NYU GLUCKSMAN IRELAND HOUSE$366,500
IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE$148,000
AMERICAN IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY$110,000
NEW YORK IRISH CENTER$65,000
CHILDREN'S MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC$25,000
AFRICAN AMERICAN IRISH DIASPORA NETWORK$25,000
EITHNE AND PADDY FITZPATRICK MEMORIAL FUND$16,000
THE BARNSTORMERS THEATRE$12,000
ORIGIN THEATRE COMPANY INC$11,000
NANTUCKET BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$10,000
RON BURTON TRAINING VILLAGE$10,000
CONCERN WORLDWIDE USA$10,000
IRISH PASTORAL CENTRE$10,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%American Red Cross of Massachusetts: $100k → 8%Irish Immigration Pastoral Center: $110k → 10%New York Irish Center: $857k → 13%Coalition of Irish Immigration Centers: $100k → 28%Assist the Officer Foundation: $10k → 14%NEW YORK IRISH CENTER: $65k → 13%EMERALD ISLE IMMIGRATION CENTER OF NEW YORK: $14k → 13%Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program: $30k → 16%Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program: $10k → 16%Irish International Immigrant Center: $28k → 16%Irish International Immigrant Center: $25k → 16%RIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER: $29k → 16%RIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER: $27k → 16%Rian Immigrant Center: $25k → 16%CELTIC FC FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
CA
VA
DC
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region — $23M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions, $19M to organizations and $4.0M to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$23M · 100% · 190 grants · 431 people

Stated purpose: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT · PEACE & RECONCILIATION · ARTS & CULTURE

East Asia and the Pacific$7k · 0% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 39 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

39 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
28

Total granted

$12M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+13%

Still filing today

79%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $162k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationInternationalHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • AC
    AN CLAIDHEAMH SOLUIS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $4.7M · revenue +62%
  • NY
    New York University
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +76%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
    4× · 2017–2021 · $1.3M · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • TG
    THE GALWAY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $221k · revenue -34% · 36% of their budget
  • TP
    THE PRINCE OF WALES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $150k
  • II
    IRISH IMMIGRATION PASTORAL CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $110k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Irish American Heritage Center

The mission of the irish american heritage center is to nurture and strengthen irish culture and heritage through programs emphasizing irish music, literature, drama, traditional dancing, fine arts and the constructive contributions of the…

Arts & Culture
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
Irelands Great Hunger Museum Inc

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. (…

Arts & Culture
5
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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6
The American Ireland Fund (Dba the Ireland Funds America/the Ireland Funds)

Dedicated to supporting programs of peace and reconciliation, arts and culture, education and community development primarily in the island of ireland.

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7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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8
Ireland Chamber of Commerce in the United States Inc

ICCUSAs primary mission is to promote commerce among the chambers representatives in the private sector and businesses in Ireland, and also to broaden and enhance Irish-American

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9
Irish American Endowment for Education Inc

The mission of the organization is to develop philanthropic relationships to support its mission to transform lives and societies.

Education
10
Institute of International Bankers

The iib represents the interests of the international banking community before u.s. legislative/regulatory bodies liaises with international regulatory bodies serves as a source of information to the media and other interested parties…

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11
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
12
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International

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 Dpas Assist the Officer Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCancer Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsCommunity Arts CentersYouth Sports ProgramsYouth Development CentersVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Immigrant Worker SupportSchool District FoundationsDomestic Violence ServicesMilitary Veterans Support
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr19%32%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr19%22%20–35yr13%64%35–55yr16%9%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/75
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,685

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

63 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. 63 of the 75 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/63
Grantees still filing
37/63
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AN CLAIDHEAMH SOLUIS INC — $4,729,895 · Arts & CultureAN CLAIDHEAMH SOLUIS INCORIGIN THEATRE COMPANY INC — $217,867 · Arts & Culture+11 more — $490,040 · Arts & Culture+11 moreNew York University — $1,659,878 · EducationNew York UniversityTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $1,280,391 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGETHE GALWAY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $221,024 · EducationTHE GALWAY UNIVERSITY FOUNDA…+6 more — $338,200 · Education+6 moreTHE IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANYINC — $619,000 · OtherTHE IRISH REPERTO…ST PATRICKS CATHEDRAL LANDMARK FOUNDATION INC — $201,666 · OtherST PATRICKS CATHE…IRELAND UNITED STATES COUNCIL FOR COMMERCE AND INC — $195,293 · OtherIRELAND UNITED ST…THE PRINCE OF WALES FOUNDATION — $150,000 · OtherTHE PRINCE OF WAL…CATHOLIC CHURCH EXTENSION SOCIETY OF US OF AMER — $120,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHURCH E…EITHNE AND PADDY FITZPATRICK MEMORIAL FUND CO FITZPATRICK MANHATTAN HOTEL — $119,000 · OtherEITHNE AND PADDY …+28 more — $769,862 · Other+28 moreFAILTE CARE CORPORATION — $922,000 · Human ServicesFAILTE CARE…RIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER INC — $134,000 · Human ServicesRIAN IMMIGR…IRISH IMMIGRATION PASTORAL CENTER — $110,000 · Human ServicesIRISH IMMIG…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $100,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Na…COALITION OF IRISH IMMIGRATION CENTERS INC C/O CELINE KENNELLY — $100,000 · Human ServicesCOALITION O…+4 more — $89,392 · Human Services+4 moreChildrens Medical Research Foundation Inc — $304,923 · HealthFRIENDS OF FACES — $100,000 · HealthCitizens United for Research in Epilepsy — $15,000 · Health+1 more — $10,000 · HealthCONCERN WORLDWIDE (US) INC — $173,000 · InternationalUS-IRELAND ALLIANCE — $100,000 · InternationalNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY INC — $73,587 · InternationalTHE IRISH AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP INC — $54,174 · International+1 more — $10,000 · InternationalAISLING IRISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $352,500 · Employment
Arts & Culture$5,437,802Education$3,499,493Other$2,174,821Human Services$1,455,392Health$429,923International$410,761Employment$352,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAN CLAIDHEAMH SOLUIS INC — $4,729,895 over 8y, 19% of budgetNew York University — $1,659,878 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $1,280,391 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFAILTE CARE CORPORATION — $922,000 over 2y, 47% of budgetTHE IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANYINC — $619,000 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetAISLING IRISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $352,500 over 2y, 19% of budgetChildrens Medical Research Foundation Inc — $304,923 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetTHE GALWAY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $221,024 over 1y, 36% of budgetORIGIN THEATRE COMPANY INC — $217,867 over 7y, 18% of budgetIRELAND UNITED STATES COUNCIL FOR COMMERCE AND INC — $195,293 over 6y, 9.4% of budgetCONCERN WORLDWIDE (US) INC — $173,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PRINCE OF WALES FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetRIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER INC — $134,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetEITHNE AND PADDY FITZPATRICK MEMORIAL FUND CO FITZPATRICK MANHATTAN HOTEL — $119,000 over 7y, 10% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $115,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetIRISH IMMIGRATION PASTORAL CENTER — $110,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetAMERICAN IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $110,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetSOLACE HOUSE INC — $105,030 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF FACES — $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION OF IRISH IMMIGRATION CENTERS INC C/O CELINE KENNELLY — $100,000 over 1y, 51% of budgetUS-IRELAND ALLIANCE — $100,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetGROUND ZERO 360 INC — $83,995 over 3y, 48% of budgetNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY INC — $73,587 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $70,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN IRISH DIASPORA NEWORK — $60,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $58,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST PATRICKS DAY FOUNDATION NYC — $55,015 over 2y, 49% of budgetTHE IRISH AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP INC — $54,174 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Haven Community Foundation (US) Inc — $48,500 over 3y, 12% of budgetFirst Presbyterian Church of Dallas Foundation — $45,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCELTIC FC FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetA WOMAN'S NATION — $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSOLAS NUA INC — $20,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetGREATER BOSTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATIONINC(FKA GREATER BOSTON CORP) — $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetOKIZU FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCitizens United for Research in Epilepsy — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTREPID MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMERALD ISLE IMMIGRATION CENTER INC — $14,392 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBARNSTORMERS INC — $12,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Liberty Mutual Founda…Bny Mellon Charitable…Eastern Bank Foundati…The Rockefeller Found…Emerald Guild SocietyCatholic Schools Foun…The Flatley FoundationMutual of America Fou…Suffolk Cares Charita…The Ayco Charitable F…Communities Foundatio…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY18.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Rockefeller Foundation · Emerald Guild Society · Catholic Schools Foundation Inc · The Flatley Foundation · Mutual of America Foundation · Suffolk Cares Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc

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 The American Ireland Fund (Dba the Ireland Funds America/The Ireland Funds) 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
  • Center for Creative Education — 2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 75 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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