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Tides Center
TIDES CENTER provides social change leaders comprehensive fiscal sponsorship - including operational, grantmaking, and capacity-building support - to propel the work of community-led organizations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $228k
- $10k–50k260 grants · $5.5M
- $50k–250k148 grants · $13M
- $250k+20 grants · $36M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TIDES ADVOCACY | $13,095,792 |
| TIDES FOUNDATION | $8,837,683 |
| TRANSFORMING RESEARCH INTO ACTION TO IMPROVE THE LIVES OF STUDENTS | $5,362,697 |
| WOMEN BUILDING UP INC | $1,459,854 |
| HASER INC | $826,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY | $800,723 |
| COUNTY OF SOLANO | $725,000 |
| ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC | $621,200 |
| GIVSUM FOUNDATION | $457,012 |
| REINVENT SOUTH STOCKTON COALITION | $447,014 |
| THE BRONX DOCUMENTARY CENTER | $421,900 |
| FIRST FOCUS ON CHILDREN | $405,000 |
| WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE EDUCATION PROJECT | $400,000 |
| MOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | $400,000 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS | $400,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $33.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
535 repeat relationships — 280 still active in FY2024, 255 since wound down; 169 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TATIDES ADVOCACY4× · 2019–2024 · $35M · revenue +75%
- CMCHRIST-CENTERED MINISTRIES2× · 2018–2019 · $13M · revenue +171% · 36% of their budget
- AFALLIANCE FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE2× · 2021–2022 · $12M · revenue +56%
Funded once
- CFCooperatives for a Better Worldone grant, 2022 · $15M · revenue -90% · 94% of their budget
- SCSHELTERWOOD COLLECTIVEone grant, 2023 · $9.6M · revenue -76% · 73% of their budget
- IIFWHENHOWgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3.1M · revenue +28% · 36% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…
Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.
The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…
Fuerza Laboral is a workers' rights center whose mission is to shift the balance of power in our economy in favor of workers by educating, training, and organizing workers to become community leaders; taking direct action to recover unpaid…
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
The Equal Justice Society (EJS) is transforming the nations consciousness on racethrough law, social science, and the arts. EJS works to dismantle structural andinstitutional racism to advance robust equal protection under the Fourteenth…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families for Justice As Healing Inc and the most unlike its peers is John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
1316 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1316 of the 1,573 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ONETEN COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TIDES ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds WITNESS TO INNOCENCE ↗
- Who funds Cooperatives for a Better World ↗
- Who funds CHRIST-CENTERED MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds SHELTERWOOD COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds National AIDS Memorial Inc ↗
- Who funds Alliance for Global Justice Corp ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds TRANSFORMING RESEARCH INTO ACTION TO IMPROVE THE LIVES OF STUDENTS ↗
- Who funds First Focus on Children ↗
- Who funds THE OPPORTUNITY AGENDA INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECT HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds IFWHENHOW ↗
- Who funds Prime Produce Limited ↗
- Who funds BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT EVIDENT INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY RELEASE FUND ↗
- Who funds WOMEN BUILDING UP INC ↗
- Who funds HASER Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds Child Welfare Innovation Inc ↗
- Who funds ADVOCACY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT WOMEN ↗
- Who funds INTERACTION THE AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY INT'L ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRONX DOCUMENTARY CENTER ↗
- Who funds NorCal Resist ↗
- Who funds EMERGENT WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC RIGHTS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN'S FORUM ↗
- Who funds GATES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAY YES BUFFALO SCHOLARSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Proteus Fund Inc · Actblue Charities Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Movement Strategy Center · The Heising-Simons Foundation · Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr Fund · Solidago Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Groundswell Fund · California Physicians' Service Fdn Dba Blue Shield of California Fdn · Common Counsel Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Tides Center funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Ironbound Community Corporation — 100% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
- Anthropocene Alliance — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.