Arizona · Nonprofit
Irish Cultural and Learning Foundation
Irish Cultural and Learning Foundation (Arizona) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $154,630 to it, the largest being ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($80,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $737k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $155k
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Irish Cultural and Learning Foundation does
Mission
The Mission of the Irish Cultural and Learning Foundation is: We bring Irish heritage to life through dynamic education, vibrant community events, and the celebration of cherished traditions, inviting people of all cultures to connect, learn, and carry the Celtic spirit forward. The Irish Cultural Center is strategically designed to celebrate and promote Irish and Celtic Heritage and its influence on and partnership with other cultures. Continued on Schedule O.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The ICLF hosted over 100 events and programs of cultural and literary significance. The three largest key events were the annual Gala celebrating Irish Heritage and key community members, St. Patricks Day Celebration (multi-day event), and the Winter Solstice celebration. In total these events welcomed approximately 1,500 community members. In October, The Haunted Castle, multi-day event welcomed approximately 500 new community members to the Irish Cultural Center.
$611,524 spent$170,308 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $611,524.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $4.0M to $3.6M (−9%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2018 7% · 2019 4% · 2020 14% · 2021 16% · 2022 4% · 2023 4% · 2024 4% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of Irish Cultural and Learning Foundation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 9 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Laddie Shane
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income fell $16k → $8k.
5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Irish Cultural and Learning Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Irish Cultural and Learning Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Irish Cultural and Learning Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 78% · 2023 84% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
75% of Irish Cultural and Learning Foundation's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
99% of Irish Cultural and Learning Foundation's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2k that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from funders outside Arizona, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $152k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Irish Cultural and Learning Foundation's revenue grew 32% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Irish Cultural and Learning Foundation
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Irish Cultural Learning Foundation Library LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Irish Cultural and Learning Foundation: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Irish Cultural and Learning Foundation?
- Irish Cultural and Learning Foundation (Arizona) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $154,630 to it, the largest being ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($80,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Irish Cultural and Learning Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $154,630 in grants to Irish Cultural and Learning Foundation, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Irish Cultural and Learning Foundation?
- ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $80,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Irish Cultural and Learning Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing