# American foundations gave $650,000 to Ireland in 2012

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2013/06/27/american-foundations-gave-650000-ireland-2012/
- Published: 2013-06-27T09:06:31+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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.

 

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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](http://www.foundationcenter.org) 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](http://www.atlanticphilanthropies.org)
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.

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