# Irish community foundation grants and endowment increase - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/06/30/irish-community-foundation-grants-and-endowment-increase/ - Published: 2015-06-30T17:05:31+01:00 - Author: Howard Lake **The Community Foundation for Ireland significantly increased its grant making between 2012 and 2013 while also boosting its endowment by over €5.5 million, according to the Foundation’s latest accounts.** For the year up to 2013 grant making increased from €2.4 million to €3.5 million. Around €1 million of the total figure came from the Foundation’s endowment with the balance distributed through around 50 donor advised funds. The endowment stood at €34.5 million in 2013, up from €29 million in 2012. However, grants from the endowment fund fell slightly in 2013. ## Advertisement The single biggest contributor to the Foundation in 2013 was the Atlantic Philanthropies which made a donation of €2 million to fund an older person’s grant fund. The biggest categories of recipient from the Foundation’s endowment were youth, family and community which received grants of around €200,000 each. Mental health and ethnic minorities received around €100,000 each. The biggest theme in the donor advised category was education which received nearly €1 million. Developing countries were awarded grants of nearly €500,000 while employment and older people received around €200,000 each. Fundraising costs for the [Community Foundation for Ireland](http://www.foundation.ie) were around €300,000, a similar figure to the year before. * **[Online shopping cart abandonment rates ‘lowest on charity sites’](https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/07/29/online-shopping-cart-abandonment-rates-lowest-on-charity-sites/)**( 29 July 2015) * **[Irish cancer charity income shows small increase](https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/08/07/irish-cancer-charity-income-shows-small-increase/)**( 7 August 2015) * **[Focus Ireland increases income by 17%](https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/09/01/focus-ireland-increases-income-by-17/)**( 1 September 2015)