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IRISH FELLOWSHIP EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL FOUNDATION

IRISH FELLOWSHIP EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $153,950 to it, the largest being CHICAGO JOURNEYMEN PLUMBERS' LOCAL UNION 130 UA ($46,750). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$424k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$154k
Net assets
$352k
5/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What Irish Fellowship Educational & Cultural Foundation does

Mission

Exclusively for charitable, religious, educational, and literary purposes, including, but not limited to, providing scholarships, grants, or other aid to needy students of irish heritage who are u.s. Citizens residing in the chicago metro area and promoting cultural awareness.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Exclusively for charitable, religious, educational, and literary purposes, including, but not limited to, providing scholarships, grants, or other aid to needy students of irish heritage who are u.s. Citizens residing in the chicago metro area and promoting cultural awareness.

    $289,500 spentof which $283,000 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $289,500.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($247k) Expenses 100 ($236k) Net assets 100 ($343k)2018 Revenue 135 ($333k) Expenses 112 ($264k) Net assets 120 ($413k)2019 Revenue 157 ($387k) Expenses 120 ($283k) Net assets 150 ($517k)2020 Revenue 52 ($130k) Expenses 105 ($247k) Net assets 116 ($399k)2021 Revenue 45 ($110k) Expenses 101 ($239k) Net assets 79 ($270k)2022 Revenue 68 ($167k) Expenses 123 ($290k) Net assets 43 ($147k)2023 Revenue 150 ($371k) Expenses 119 ($281k) Net assets 69 ($237k)2024 Revenue 171 ($424k) Expenses 131 ($309k) Net assets 103 ($352k)
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Revenue (171)Expenses (131)Net assets (103)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $399k to $270k (−32%).

$343k
$413k
$517k
$399k
$270k
$147k
$237k
$352k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

86% of IRISH FELLOWSHIP EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$11k
’17
$69k
’18
$104k
’19
−$117k
’20
−$129k
’21
−$123k
’22
$90k
’23
$115k
’24
14
months of
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.

Chief executive

Kathleen Taylor

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1412121211111111
Joined·+0+4+0+1+0+1+1
No longer listed·2402011
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $20k.

3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 FELLOWSHIP EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 funders by total. 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 FELLOWSHIP EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 FELLOWSHIP EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL FOUNDATION.

30%
largest funder
62%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 27% · 2020 57% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 50% — 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

0% of IRISH FELLOWSHIP EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

100% of IRISH FELLOWSHIP EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
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’20
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

IRISH FELLOWSHIP EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin27% · top quartile
Months of reserve13.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like IRISH FELLOWSHIP EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL FOUNDATION

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In Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 5%Fundraising 1%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

91%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Irish Fellowship Club of Chicago · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds IRISH FELLOWSHIP EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL FOUNDATION?
IRISH FELLOWSHIP EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $153,950 to it, the largest being CHICAGO JOURNEYMEN PLUMBERS' LOCAL UNION 130 UA ($46,750). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does IRISH FELLOWSHIP EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $153,950 in grants to IRISH FELLOWSHIP EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of IRISH FELLOWSHIP EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL FOUNDATION?
CHICAGO JOURNEYMEN PLUMBERS' LOCAL UNION 130 UA is the largest funder on record, with $46,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like IRISH FELLOWSHIP EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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