American foundations gave $650,000 to Ireland in 2012

Howard Lake | 27 June 2013 | News

Charities in Ireland received grants totalling $650,000 from US registered foundations in 2012, according to the New York based Foundation Center.
 
$450,000 was distributed to charities in the Republic of Ireland and $200,000 to charities in Northern Ireland. In 2011 the figure for Ireland was $14.5 million.
 
Switzerland received the most funding from the USA in 2012, with a grant total of $755 million to just 22 recipients. England-based organisations received nearly $48 million.
 
Organisations in Ireland which received funding in 2012 included An Taisce, Front Line and the Irish Youth Foundation. In Northern Ireland the Community Foundation received $200,000 from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.
 
In 2011 the Foundation Center reported that the figure for foundation giving to Ireland was $14.5 million, $10 million to the Republic of Ireland and $4.5 million in Northern Ireland. The largest single grant in the Republic was $2 million to the National University of Ireland while the Law Centre in Northern Ireland received $1.8 million.
 
The single biggest donor in 2011 to Ireland was Atlantic Philanthropies which is headquartered in New York. Atlantic has consistently been the biggest foundation donor to Ireland since the mid 1990s but will make its final grants in 2015/16.

Photo: John F Kennedy on Eire stamp 1988, by Boris15 / Shutterstock.com

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