New York · Private foundation
High Tide Foundation
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.
- $2.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2024
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 83
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $141M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations High Tide Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 2 | $2.3M | 100% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $10k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $312k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $3.1M | 29% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $9.4M | 42% |
| FY2019 | 64 | $18M | 84% |
| FY2017 | 83 | $9.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cool Effect Inc | $6,000,140 | 2 | 58% |
| The Partnership Project Inc | $1,250,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $1,010,811 | 2 | 0% |
| South Kent School Corporation | $1,001,000 | 1 | 8% |
| The Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham Environmental Trust | $1,000,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Conservative Energy Network | $912,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Climateworks Foundation | $891,249 | 1 | 1% |
| Sustainable Markets Foundation | $813,125 | 2 | 5% |
| Rocky Mountain Institute | $755,585 | 2 | 1% |
| American Flood Coalition Inc | $750,000 | 2 | 11% |
Show all 104 grantees
Plus 53 recipients with no EIN on record ($19M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
High Tide Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 95 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Climateworks Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Energy Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Sustainable Markets Foundation · New Venture Fund
How this is measured
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About High Tide Foundation
- How much does High Tide Foundation give?
- High Tide Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $2,333,334 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 83 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does High Tide Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (74%), Philanthropy (8%), Education (7%).
- Who are High Tide Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Cool Effect Inc ($6.0M), The Partnership Project Inc ($1.3M), Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated ($1.0M).
- Does High Tide Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does High Tide Foundation 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 High Tide Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Climateworks Foundation, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, United States Energy Foundation.
- Where is High Tide Foundation based?
- High Tide Foundation is based in NY.
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