JP body donates €33m

A charitable foundation set up by businessman JP McManus has donated more than €33 million to causes in Ireland and abroad over the past six years.

Newly filed accounts for the JP McManus Charitable Foundation Limited, which has been in existence since 2000, show that it has donated €33m between 2007 and 2012. However, the figures show that the amount of money donated by the foundation last year totalled €2.38m — down 49% on the €4.7m distributed in 2011.

The foundation is largely funded from the 2010 JP McManus’s Invitational Pro-Am Charities fund and in 2012, the foundation held €25m on behalf of the JP McManus Pro-Am 2010 Committee.