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Tidemark 10 Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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95% of Tidemark 10 Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 11 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

2
’22
0
’23
2
’24
11
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,000,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 2
FY2022 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$9.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Tidemark 10 Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 58% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving12$76k83%
FY20242$9k50%
FY20222$41kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.3MEducation$1.0MEnvironment$55kPublic Safety & Disaster$40kArts & Culture$20kFood & Nutrition$10kInternational$10kHealth$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
IA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of Tidemark 10 Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
World Central Kitchen Inc$30,00020%
Sustainable Surf$24,89431%
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace$10,00010%
Pbs Foundation$10,00010%
Kqed Inc$10,00010%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$10,00010%
Refed Inc$10,0001n/a
Nora's Gift Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation$5,00010%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$4,50010%
Lifemoves$2,50010%
La Cocina$2,25010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($1k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Tidemark 10 Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSustainable Surf: $24,894 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCarnegie Endowment for International Peace: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPbs Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKqed Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNora's Gift Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLos Angeles Fire Department Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLifemoves: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLa Cocina: $2,250 over 1y, 0.0% 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 11.

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How do I get to Tidemark 10 Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Tidemark 10 Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Tidemark 10 Foundation

How much does Tidemark 10 Foundation give?
Tidemark 10 Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $1,396,970 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 2 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
What does Tidemark 10 Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (53%), Education (41%), Environment (2%).
Who are Tidemark 10 Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: World Central Kitchen Inc ($30k), Sustainable Surf ($25k), Carnegie Endowment for International Peace ($10k).
Does Tidemark 10 Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Tidemark 10 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.
Where is Tidemark 10 Foundation based?
Tidemark 10 Foundation is based in DE.

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 18 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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