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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$6.0MEducation$3.6MHuman Services$1.7MCommunity Improvement$1.0MHealth$476kInternational$267kYouth Development$170kRecreation & Sports$123kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 18 grants below total $1,494,750, the rows itemized in this filing. The $26,867,499 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $25,372,749 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
AFRICAN AMERICAN IRISH DIASPORA NETWORK$25,000
CHILDREN'S MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC$25,000
EITHNE AND PADDY FITZPATRICK MEMORIAL FUND$16,000
THE BARNSTORMERS THEATRE$12,000
ORIGIN THEATRE COMPANY INC$11,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON$10,000
BEST OF THE BATCH FOUNDATION$10,000
SAINT TERESA OF CALCUTTA PARISH$10,000
RON BURTON TRAINING VILLAGE$10,000
CONCERN WORLDWIDE USA$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its 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

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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%
+17%

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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $221k · revenue +83% · 36% of their budget
  • TP
    THE PRINCE OF WALES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $150k
  • II
    IRISH IMMIGRATION PASTORAL CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $110k · revenue +17%
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.

04Its field

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.

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
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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5
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
6
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
7
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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8
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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9
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

—
10
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
11
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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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington Ireland Program for Service & Leadership; 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.
04the grantee network

63 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. 63 of the 75 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/63
Grantees still filing
40/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…COALITION OF IRISH IMMIGRATION CENTERS INC C/O CELINE KENNELLY: $100,000 · Human ServicesCOALITION O…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $100,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Na…+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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetCOALITION OF IRISH IMMIGRATION CENTERS INC C/O CELINE KENNELLY: $100,000 over 1y, 51% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUS-IRELAND ALLIANCE: $100,000 over 2y, 4.1% 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 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 budgetJOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFirst Presbyterian Church of Dallas Foundation: $45,000 over 2y, 0.5% 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 budgetOKIZU FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetA WOMAN'S NATION: $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER BOSTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATIONINC(FKA GREATER BOSTON CORP): $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSOLAS NUA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetINTREPID MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCitizens United for Research in Epilepsy: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEMERALD ISLE IMMIGRATION CENTER INC: $14,392 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBARNSTORMERS INC: $12,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The American Ireland Fund (Dba the Ireland Funds America/The Ireland Funds) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The American Ireland Fund (Dba the Ireland Funds America/The Ireland Funds). Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 75 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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