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Dancing Tides Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4.5M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
100
Grants FY2024
77
Organizations funded FY2023
23%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,000,000
Organizations funded a year
68 to 90
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
20
Total assets, FY2024
$20M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 23% of the organizations Dancing Tides Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $379k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving91$4.2M23%
FY202377$3.9M23%
FY202290$3.5M13%
FY202183$2.7M25%
FY202078$3.3M28%
FY201974$2.3M34%
FY201868$2.3M32%
FY201769$2.0Mn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$6.5MEnvironment$4.9MPhilanthropy$4.3MEducation$4.0MHuman Services$874kArts & Culture$844kHealth$694kPublic Benefit$600kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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OR
WY
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
International Rescue Committee INC$5,397,70080%
Robin Hood Foundation$3,750,00061%
Crane Country Day School$1,790,00085%
The Trust for Public Land$1,450,00070%
Math for America$862,81481%
Charity Global Inc$700,00070%
America Votes$600,00012%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$400,00080%
Cate School$300,00021%
Direct Relief$260,00080%
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All grantees of Dancing Tides Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
International Rescue Committee INC$5,397,70080%
Robin Hood Foundation$3,750,00061%
Crane Country Day School$1,790,00085%
The Trust for Public Land$1,450,00070%
Math for America$862,81481%
Charity Global Inc$700,00070%
America Votes$600,00012%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$400,00080%
Cate School$300,00021%
Direct Relief$260,00080%
Aliados USA$236,300375%
Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade$200,00048%
Montecito Trails Foundation$182,000725%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$165,00080%
Mercy Corps$165,00050%
Pocono Environmental Education Center Inc$165,00072%
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History$145,00070%
Santa Barbara Zoological Foundation$142,50080%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$140,00050%
Santa Barbara Channelkeeper Inc$130,00083%
Children in Conflict Inc$130,00033%
Wilderness Youth Project Inc$116,04381%
Innovations for Poverty Action a Nonprofit Corporation$110,00050%
Storyteller Childrens Center Inc$110,00023%
The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County$100,00021%
Human Rights Watch Inc$100,00060%
Vital Voices Global Partnership Inc$100,00010%
Cancer Research Institute Inc$100,00080%
Dalmatian Dreams Dba Dream Foundation$100,00061%
Waterkeeper Alliance Inc$100,00040%
God's Love We Deliver Inc$99,00060%
New York Shakespeare Festival$95,00060%
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc$91,00040%
Environmental Defense Center$90,00072%
Aspetuck Land Trust$83,50062%
City Harvest Inc$80,00080%
Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation$80,00080%
The Malala Fund$80,00070%
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$70,00080%
Yale University$70,0004n/a
White Buffalo Land Trust$65,50051%
Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$62,50070%
Americana Music Foundation$60,000116%
Heal the Ocean Inc$55,00081%
Sustainable Conservation$50,00080%
Parkinsons Wellness Foundation$50,00011%
Goodnation Foundation Inc$50,00011%
Urban Pathways Inc$46,00040%
Telluride Society for Jazz$45,000514%
Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara$42,50080%
Thorn$40,00020%
PowerMyLearning Inc$40,00040%
The Trustees of Princeton University$37,00080%
i AM Music Inc$32,50052%
Saga Innovations Inc$30,00030%
Tennis Patrons Assoc of Santa Barbara$30,000510%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$30,00020%
Education Through Music Inc$30,00060%
Surf Happens Foundation$27,000629%
The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee$26,00080%
A Leg to Stand on Inc$25,07561%
Women Moving Millions Inc$25,00011%
Malama Kua Aina$25,000115%
Blue School$25,00010%
Womens Impact Fund$25,00014%
Urban Arts Partnership$20,00010%
Cohen Veterans Network Inc$20,00010%
Santa Barbara Historical Museum$20,00011%
Smile For A Lifetime Inc$20,000111%
Santa Barbara Education Foundation$20,00040%
The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation$20,00070%
The Student Conservation Association Inc$20,00080%
Food Fix Campaign Inc$20,00020%
Mission Scholars$20,00011%
Ganna Walska Lotusland$19,50070%
Yale University$18,0001n/a
The Young People's Chorus of New York City Inc$17,50060%
Jazz Foundation of America Inc$15,00020%
Community Environmental Council$10,50070%
Facing History & Ourselves Inc$10,00020%
Aha Foundation Inc$10,00040%
Pioneer Works Art Foundation$10,00010%
Student Veterans of America$10,00010%
Lobero Theatre Foundation$10,00010%
NAMI National$10,00010%
African Women Rising$10,00030%
Folk Alliance International$10,00011%
Cultural Alliance of Medfield Dba Bellforge Arts Center$10,00011%
Princeton Prospect Foundation$8,00080%
Channel Islands Young Men's Christian Association$7,50030%
Westside German Shepherd Rescue of Los Angeles$7,00030%
One805 Inc$6,01012%
Grand Teton National Park Foundation$6,00020%
National Museum of Mathematics$5,04010%
47 Palmer Inc$5,00010%
National Dance Institute$5,00010%
Next Stage Arts Project Inc$5,00011%
Companies for Causes$5,00010%
Foundation for Harmony Presents$5,00012%
Education Through Music$5,0001n/a
Music Helps$5,0001n/a
Sanctuary Centers of Santa Barbara Inc$5,00010%
Hope for Ukraine Inc$5,00010%
Friends of IHES Inc$5,00010%
Formative Foundation$5,00010%
Girls Incorporated of Greater Santa Barbara$3,00020%
Society of the Third Street Music School Settlement$2,50010%
Grand Vision Foundation$2,50010%
Aina Hookupu O Kilauea$2,50010%
The Hudson Valley Writers' Center Inc$2,50011%
Maui Food Bank Inc$2,50010%
Music Is Love Exchange$2,5001n/a
Chp 11-99 Foundation$2,5001n/a
Jazz Choreography Enterprises$2,0001n/a
Companions for Heroes$2,00020%
Westport Rotary Club$2,00022%
SANTA BARBARA BEEKEEPERS ASSOCIATION Attn JULIA WALTHER$2,00014%
Arizona Golden Retriever Connection$1,90013%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$1,65010%
Greater Santa Barbara Ice Skating Association$1,50010%
Ed Snider Youth Hockey & Education$1,50010%
RUNX1 Foundation dba RUNX1 Research Program$1,03310%
Lucky Dog Animal Rescue$1,03010%
Pacific Council on International Policy$1,00010%
St Baldrick's Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Jericho Project$1,00010%
Save The Children Federation Inc$1,00010%
Childhelp Inc$1,00010%
Sing for Hope Inc$1,00010%
Camp Sunshine at Sebago Lake Inc$1,00010%
The Library of American Landscape History Inc$1,0001n/a
United States Fund for Unicef$1,00010%
Congregation Bnai Brith$5001n/a
Smiling Dog Farms$50010%
Challenge Aspen$50010%

Plus 75 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.7M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Dancing Tides Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 126 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $5,397,700 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetRobin Hood Foundation: $3,750,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCrane Country Day School: $1,790,000 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetThe Trust for Public Land: $1,450,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMath for America: $862,814 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetCharity Global Inc: $700,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAmerica Votes: $600,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $400,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCate School: $300,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDirect Relief: $260,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAliados USA: $236,300 over 3y, 75% of budgetSanta Barbara Bucket Brigade: $200,000 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetMontecito Trails Foundation: $182,000 over 7y, 25% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $165,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps: $165,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPocono Environmental Education Center Inc: $165,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetSanta Barbara Museum of Natural History: $145,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSanta Barbara Zoological Foundation: $142,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $140,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Channelkeeper Inc: $130,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetChildren in Conflict Inc: $130,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetWilderness Youth Project Inc: $116,043 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetInnovations for Poverty Action a Nonprofit Corporation: $110,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetStoryteller Childrens Center Inc: $110,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetThe Land Trust for Santa Barbara County: $100,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHuman Rights Watch Inc: $100,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVital Voices Global Partnership Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCancer Research Institute Inc: $100,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDalmatian Dreams Dba Dream Foundation: $100,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetWaterkeeper Alliance Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGod's Love We Deliver Inc: $99,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNew York Shakespeare Festival: $95,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $91,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Center: $90,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetAspetuck Land Trust: $83,500 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetCity Harvest Inc: $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Bowl Foundation: $80,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetThe Malala Fund: $80,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $70,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWhite Buffalo Land Trust: $65,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetSanta Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $62,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetAmericana Music Foundation: $60,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetHeal the Ocean Inc: $55,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetSustainable Conservation: $50,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetParkinsons Wellness Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGoodnation Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUrban Pathways Inc: $46,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTelluride Society for Jazz: $45,000 over 5y, 14% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 126.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Santa Barbara FoundationCA59× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · The Kirby-Jones Foundation · Tony and Kyra Rogers Foundation · Brittingham Family Foundation · Www Foundation · The B & B Foundation · Mosher Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · James S Bower Foundation · G a Fowler Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Dancing Tides Foundation Inc

How much does Dancing Tides Foundation Inc give?
Dancing Tides Foundation Inc reported 100 grants totaling $4,455,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 68 and 90 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Dancing Tides Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (25%), Environment (19%), Philanthropy (17%).
Who are Dancing Tides Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: International Rescue Committee INC ($5.4M), Robin Hood Foundation ($3.8M), Crane Country Day School ($1.8M).
Does Dancing Tides Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dancing Tides Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dancing Tides Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation, Ann Jackson Family Foundation.
Where is Dancing Tides Foundation Inc based?
Dancing Tides Foundation Inc is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 217 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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