# Atlantic Philanthropies makes big grant as it nears end of grant giving

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/09/18/atlantic-philanthropies-makes-big-grant-nears-end-grant-giving/
- Published: 2014-09-18T12:55:23+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**As Atlantic Philanthropies winds down its grant giving, the foundation has announced
new grants of over £25 million to projects in Northern Ireland.**

£25 million will be shared between three areas of work — shared education, dementia
care and an early years learning programme. The funding is being matched by £33 
million from the Northern Ireland Executive and follows a similar pattern of Atlantic‘
challenge’ grants.

[Atlantic Philanthropies](http://www.atlanticphilanthropies.org) is the foundation
established by 83-year-old Irish American Chuck Feeney who made his fortune in duty
free shopping.  Mr Feeney has pledged to give away his entire fortune of £4 billion
in his own lifetime with the final grants being made around the end of this year.

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Last month, the foundation gave almost £12 million for dementia care and research
in the Republic of Ireland, matched by the government.

The foundation has also recently revealed that it has given over £600,000 to organisations
to disseminate and evaluate learning from its programmes in Ireland, north and south.

Clear Thinking Communications has been given two grants of £120,000 to evaluate 
programmes in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland while the Centre for 
Effective Services will spend nearly £400,000 on an implementation conference next
year.

 * **[Chuck Feeney joins the Giving Pledge](https://fundraising.co.uk/2011/03/11/chuck-feeney-joins-giving-pledge/)(
   11 March 2011)
 * **[Atlantic Philanthropies records its giving in Ireland](https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/07/30/atlantic-philanthropies-records-its-giving-in-ireland/)(
   30 July 2015)
 * **[New book captures story of $1.3 billion grant giving in Ireland](https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/10/19/new-book-captures-story-1-3-billion-grant-giving-ireland/)(
   19 October 2017)**