· Public charity
The Tara Circle Inc
Foster the interest and awareness of irish - american culture by sponsoring classes in irish music, dance, history, language, art and literature.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k3 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $74k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GAA MINOR BOARD | $250,000 |
| FIDELITY | $34,000 |
| AISLING CENTER | $30,000 |
| SOLACE HOUSE | $10,000 |
| IONA UNIVERSITY NATIONAL COLLEGIATE IRISH DANCE CHAMPIONS | $5,000 |
| ANCIENT ORDER OF HIBERNIANS | $5,000 |
| UNITED IRISH COUNTIES ASSOC OF NY FEIS | $200 |
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 human-services grants (FY19–23, $705k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
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.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- AIAISLING IRISH COMMUNITY CENTER6× · 2018–2023 · $718k · revenue -16% · 80% of their budget
- CNCharity Navigator2× · 2022–2023 · $650k · revenue -47%
- SHSOLACE HOUSE INC4× · 2019–2023 · $46k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- EIEMERALD ISLE IMMIGRATION CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +164%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $10k
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +112%
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 ancient order of hibernians is a catholic, irish american fraternal organization founded in new york city, may 4, 1836. the order seeks to aid the newly arrived irish, both socially and politically. the order has also provided a…
The mission of the irish cultural and historical society of the mohawk valley is to establish and maintain a state-of-the-art cultural center that will be regional in scope, researching, cataloguing, and displaying the history and…
Ciic provides service to the irish/irish american community across the us in partnership with its direct service member centers, thus impacting constituents. ciic provides a national perspective of issues facing irish immigrants, while…
Support of public charities and new york catholic schools.
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…
To unite immigrants, members and allies so all new yorkers can thrive.
The mission of the irish cultural center is to cultivate a connection with ireland, through the arts, culture, history, language, and heritage. the center offers opportunities to engage in educational, travel, and social events that…
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 Aisling Irish Community Center and the most unlike its peers is Rockland County Ancient Order of Hibernians Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 10 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 AISLING IRISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
- Who funds EMERALD ISLE IMMIGRATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOLACE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds IONA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ROCKLAND COUNTY ANCIENT ORDER OF HIBERNIANS INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED IRISH COUNTIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Tara Circle Inc 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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