The American Ireland Fund (dba the
Boston, MA · EIN 25-1306992. Reported 83 grants totalling $4,863,066 to 42 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 42 distinct organizations, with 32% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 41% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $35,000; the smallest was $6,700 and the largest $638,750. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Claidheamh Soluis Inc | New York, NY | $1,549,711 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| New York University | New York, NY | $1,034,137 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Irish Repertory Theatre Company Inc | New York, NY | $387,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Childrens Medical Research Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $304,923 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Boston College Trustees | Chestnut Hill, MA | $250,391 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Catholic Church Extension Society of US of Amer | Chicago, IL | $120,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| American Irish Historical Society Inc | New York, NY | $110,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of Faces | Reston, VA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ireland United States Council for Commerce and Industry Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $80,943 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| National Committee on American Foreign Policy Inc | New York, NY | $73,587 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Failte Care Corporation | Long Island City, NY | $65,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| African American Irish Diaspora Network Inc | Washington, DC | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Eithne and Paddy Fitzpatrick Memorial Fund | New York, NY | $60,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Rian Immigrant Center Inc | Boston, MA | $56,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Solace House Inc | Long Island City, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Special Olympics Inc | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Origin Theatre Company Inc | New York, NY | $46,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Catholic Schools Foundation Inc | Boston, MA | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Irish American Partnership Inc | Boston, MA | $36,674 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| St Patricks Cathedral Landmark Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Concern Worldwide U S Inc | New York, NY | $31,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc | Dorchester, MA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston a Corporation Sole | Braintree, MA | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Celtic Fc Foundation Inc | Boston, MA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | $20,700 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston Inc | Boston, MA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc | Boston, MA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Lawrence Catholic Academy of Lawrence Massachusetts Inc | Lawrence, MA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Solas Nua Inc | Washington, DC | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Barnstormers Inc | Tamworth, NH | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Best of the Batch Foundation | Homestead, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cristo Rey Boston High School Inc | Dorchester, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gaelic Athletic Association of Greater New York Inc | Yonkers, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mother Jones Heritage Project | Dekalb, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Nantucket Boys & Girls Club Inc | Nantucket, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Okizu Foundation | Novato, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Palm Beach Police Foundation Inc | Palm Beach, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ron Burton Training Village Inc | Hubbardston, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Saint Teresa of Calcutta Parish | Dorchester, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Special Olympics Texas Inc | San Antonio, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | Staten Island, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
23 of 42 (55%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 31 of 42 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 22 | $1,195,873 | $17,250 |
| 2022 | 26 | $1,344,611 | $22,500 |
| 2023 | 17 | $827,832 | $10,206 |
| 2024 | 18 | $1,494,750 | $11,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
78% of its giving went to organizations in New York. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The American Ireland Fund (dba the's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 18 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 10 Post Office Square N950, Boston, MA, 02109.
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