# NI community foundation grant giving falls - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/12/08/ni-community-foundation-grant-giving-falls/ - Published: 2015-12-08T17:17:58+00:00 - Author: Howard Lake **The Community Foundation Northern Ireland (CFNI) made grants last year of £3.6 million, down from £5.3 million the previous year, according to its latest accounts.** This reduction in grant giving was despite an increase in income from £7 million to £10 million from 2014 to 2015. Total resources expended in 2015 were £6.2 million, down from £6.9 million the previous year. [Community Foundation Northern Ireland](https://fundraising.co.uk/www.communityfoundationni.org) administers a number of major grant programmes on behalf of other funders such as the Big Lottery and Atlantic Philanthropies. Space and Place, for example, is a Lottery funded capital scheme worth £15 million which last year distributed grants worth £3.5 million. ## Advertisement Atlantic Philanthropies has funded CFNI programmes over many years related to peace and human rights and last year provided a grant of over £6.8 million ‘to secure sustainable protection and promotion of human rights by establishing a time bound Northern Ireland Human Rights Fund.’ The contribution to CFNI’s income from this fund last year was just over £4 million. CFNI distributes income from the EU Peace Programme which amounted to over £2 million in the financial year ending March 2015 as well as a range of smaller grants from a number of endowments and CFNI’s own endowment. CFNI spent £2.6 million to cover the cost of administering its grant programme and development costs, up from £2.2 million the year before. The charity’s net funds stood at just over £17 million in 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) * **[Support for Irish NGOs to access EU funding](https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/02/09/support-irish-ngos-access-eu-funding/)**( 9 February 2017)