# Atlantic allocates $36 million in Ireland

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/11/04/atlantic-allocates-36-million-ireland/
- Published: 2014-11-04T15:58:56+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Atlantic Philanthropies has announced another series of grants in Ireland totalling
nearly $36,000,000.

Despite being in its final stages of grant-giving, Atlantic continues to make some
of the largest grants in Ireland to charity and community organisations.

The biggest grant went to the Galway University Foundation which received a grant
of nearly $14 million (€11 million) for child and family services in Ireland. This
brings the total awarded to Galway University to nearly $63 million since 2001.

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In Northern Ireland the Community Foundation received $11.6 million for a Human 
Rights Fund ‘to secure sustainable protection and promotion of human rights by establishing
a time bound Northern Ireland Human Rights Fund.’

This latest grant, the largest grant ever made to the Foundation, brings the total
grant allocation to the Community Foundation to nearly $21 million (£13 million)
since 2006.

Other large grants went to the Health Research Board ($3.7 million) and Immigrant
Council of Ireland ($3 million).

[Atlantic Philanthropies](http://www.atlanticphilanthropies.org) says it will make
its final grants in 2016 and conclude operations in 2020.

 * **[NI community foundation grant giving falls](https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/12/08/ni-community-foundation-grant-giving-falls/)**(
   8 December 2015)
 * **[Irish philanthropists recognised](https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/02/02/irish-philanthropists-recognised-2/)**(
   2 February 2016)
 * **[Book on philanthropy and peace building published](https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/12/13/book-philanthropy-peace-building-published/)**(
   13 December 2016)