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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.

$51M
Granted FY2024still arriving
461
Grants FY2024still arriving
42
States reached
$13M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Civil Rights$152MEmployment$68MPhilanthropy$56MCrime & Legal$43MEnvironment$27MHealth$26MArts & Culture$22MEducation$21MOther$0
02FY2024 · 461 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k33 grants · $228k
  • $10k–50k260 grants · $5.5M
  • $50k–250k148 grants · $13M
  • $250k+20 grants · $36M
$25,000
Median grant
42
States reached
$297M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS$400,000
WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE EDUCATION PROJECT$400,000
SOUTHEAST CLIMATE ENERGY NETWORK INC$400,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $33.5M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LOFT THE LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER INC: $201k → 9%REALITY SPEAKING INC: $100k → 7%LOFT THE LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER INC: $101k → 9%WORKER S CENTER OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC: $123k → 14%WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC: $113k → 14%FIERCE ADVOCATES FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS EQUITABLY ROOTED IN CO: $996k → 9%VILLAGE CONNECT INC: $150k → 10%VILLAGE CONNECT INC: $100k → 10%FILIPINO AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $288k → 10%REINVENT SOUTH STOCKTON COALITION: $447k → 12%MINKWON CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $118k → 13%FILIPINO ADVOCATES FOR JUSTICE: $338k → 10%FILIPINO ADVOCATES FOR JUSTICE: $130k → 10%HAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE: $200k → 11%INDIGENOUS JUSTICE: $120k → 12%PARTNERSHIP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANS: $160k → 11%CENTRAL AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER CARECEN OF CALIFORNIA: $446k → 14%TIDES FOUNDATION: $5.0M → 10%TIDES FOUNDATION: $3.5M → 10%BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC: $2.5M → 17%TIDES FOUNDATION: $1.1M → 10%CHILD WELFARE INNOVATION INCORPORATED: $1.0M → 10%TIDES FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 10%TIDES FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 10%TIDES FOUNDATION: $566k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $296k → 10%TIDES FOUNDATION: $222k → 10%WILLAMETTE RIVER NETWORK: $130k → 10%EMERGENT WORKS INC: $1.3M → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $295k → 17%MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $309k → 10%GARMENT WORKER CENTER: $466k → 14%GARMENT WORKER CENTER: $125k → 14%KOREAN RESOURCE CENTER INC: $150k → 14%YWCA OF GREATER BATON ROUGE: $445k → 19%YWCA GREATER BATON ROUGE: $150k → 19%FIRST FOCUS: $1.5M → 14%FIRST FOCUS ON CHILDREN: $810k → 14%FIRST FOCUS ON CHILDREN: $500k → 14%FIRST FOCUS: $500k → 14%SOUTHERN PARTNERS FUND INC: $143k → 13%OPERATION RESTORATION: $406k → 23%FIRST FOCUS ON CHILDREN: $405k → 14%SOUTHERN PARTNERS FUND INC: $125k → 13%WE THE PEOPLE OF DETROIT: $215k → 21%MASSACHUSETTS BAIL FUND INC: $880k → 8%CHILD WELFARE INNOVATION INCORPORATED: $300k → 16%DETENTION WATCH NETWORK: $431k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$295M · 534 repeat orgs$97M to everyone else

534 repeat relationships: 280 still active in FY2024, 254 since wound down; 169 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

534
831

Total granted

$295M
$85M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+23%

Still filing today

87%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationCivil RightsHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TA
    TIDES ADVOCACY
    4× · 2019–2024 · $35M · revenue +75%
  • CM
    CHRIST-CENTERED MINISTRIES
    2× · 2018–2019 · $13M · revenue +171% · 36% of their budget
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE
    2× · 2021–2022 · $12M · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • CF
    Cooperatives for a Better World
    one grant, 2022 · $15M · revenue -90% · 94% of their budget
  • SC
    SHELTERWOOD COLLECTIVE
    one grant, 2023 · $9.6M · revenue -66% · 73% of their budget
  • I
    IFWHENHOWgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3.1M · revenue +28% · 36% of their budget
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

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,…

Employment
2
Forward Together

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…

Health
3
Justice Funders

Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.

—
4
Fuerza LaboralPower of Workers

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…

Education
5
Youth Represent Inc

Youth represent uses legal services, policy advocacy, peer education, and other tools to build power and opportunity for black, latine, and other youth of color who the criminal legal system and other systems of oppression harm the most.…

Crime & Legal
6
Common Future

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…

Community Improvement
7
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
8
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
9
Fund for Justice

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…

Crime & Legal
10
CommonHealth Action

CommonHealth ACTION develops people and organizations to produce health through equitable policies, programs, and practices.

Health
11
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal
12
Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Opportunity Agenda Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

1316 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

122
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
330
Early backer (in before they grew)
1284/1316
Grantees still filing
773/1316
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TIDES FOUNDATION: $63,247,772 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATIONCONNECT HUMANITY: $3,261,912 · PhilanthropyPrime Produce Limited: $2,765,000 · Philanthropy+13 more: $11,610,211 · Philanthropy+13 moreONETEN COALITION INC: $63,411,202 · Civil RightsONETEN COALITION INCIFWHENHOW: $3,121,256 · Civil Rights+20 more: $13,772,882 · Civil Rights+20 moreTIDES ADVOCACY: $34,619,059 · OtherTIDES ADVOCACY401 STATE STREET WBU LLC: $17,145,000 · Other401 STATE STREET WBU LLCSHELTERWOOD COLLECTIVE: $9,598,594 · OtherSHELTERWOOD COLLECTIVEAlliance for Global Justice Corp: $6,529,299 · OtherAlliance for Global Justice Corp+100 more: $54,161,723 · Other+100 moreCHRIST-CENTERED MINISTRIES: $12,647,348 · Human ServicesCHRIST-CEN…TIDES CENTER: $6,128,860 · Human ServicesTIDES CENT…First Focus on Children: $3,715,000 · Human ServicesFirst Focu…BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC: $2,510,730 · Human ServicesBLUE MERID…Child Welfare Innovation Inc: $1,412,361 · Human Services+20 more: $11,129,523 · Human Services+20 moreWITNESS TO INNOCENCE: $16,140,627 · Crime & LegalWITNESS T…ALLIANCE FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE: $12,447,789 · Crime & LegalALLIANCE …EMERGENCY RELEASE FUND: $1,724,500 · Crime & LegalEMERGENCY…+4 more: $1,273,612 · Crime & LegalCooperatives for a Better World: $14,630,616 · Arts & CultureTHE OPPORTUNITY AGENDA INC: $3,637,442 · Arts & CultureTHE BRONX DOCUMENTARY CENTER: $1,265,700 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $4,362,025 · Arts & CultureNational AIDS Memorial Inc: $7,355,438 · HealthTRANSFORMING RESEARCH INTO ACTION TO IMPROVE THE LIVES OF STUDENTS: $5,362,697 · HealthCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $872,683 · HealthIMOGEN ROCHE FOUNDATION INC: $843,800 · HealthSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $685,751 · HealthEYELLIANCE INC: $609,032 · Health+6 more: $2,264,054 · Health
Philanthropy$80,884,895Civil Rights$80,305,340Other$122,053,675Human Services$37,543,822Crime & Legal$31,586,528Arts & Culture$23,895,783Health$17,993,455

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetONETEN COALITION INC: $63,411,202 over 2y, 45% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $63,247,772 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetTIDES ADVOCACY: $34,619,059 over 4y, 20% of budgetWITNESS TO INNOCENCE: $16,140,627 over 3y, 23% of budgetCooperatives for a Better World: $14,630,616 over 1y, 94% of budgetCHRIST-CENTERED MINISTRIES: $12,647,348 over 2y, 36% of budgetALLIANCE FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE: $12,447,789 over 2y, 19% of budgetSHELTERWOOD COLLECTIVE: $9,598,594 over 1y, 73% of budgetNational AIDS Memorial Inc: $7,355,438 over 2y, 17% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp: $6,529,299 over 5y, 85% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $6,128,860 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetFirst Focus on Children: $3,715,000 over 5y, 49% of budgetTHE OPPORTUNITY AGENDA INC: $3,637,442 over 2y, 30% of budgetCONNECT HUMANITY: $3,261,912 over 2y, 35% of budgetIFWHENHOW: $3,121,256 over 1y, 36% of budgetPrime Produce Limited: $2,765,000 over 4y, 74% of budgetBLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC: $2,510,730 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT: $2,386,369 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $1,926,454 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetPROJECT EVIDENT INC: $1,809,688 over 3y, 94% of budgetEMERGENCY RELEASE FUND: $1,724,500 over 2y, 45% of budgetWOMEN BUILDING UP INC: $1,607,737 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetHASER Inc: $1,479,114 over 5y, 37% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $1,441,721 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetChild Welfare Innovation Inc: $1,412,361 over 2y, 14% of budgetADVOCACY INSTITUTE INC: $1,348,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetDIRECT WOMEN: $1,345,878 over 1y, 77% of budgetINTERACTION THE AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY INT'L ACTION INC: $1,323,472 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $1,283,078 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetTHE BRONX DOCUMENTARY CENTER: $1,265,700 over 2y, 31% of budgetNorCal Resist: $1,254,220 over 5y, 36% of budgetEMERGENT WORKS INC: $1,250,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetPUBLIC RIGHTS PROJECT: $1,184,468 over 1y, 14% of budgetNATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN'S FORUM: $1,169,883 over 3y, 24% of budgetGATES FOUNDATION: $1,168,428 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAY YES BUFFALO SCHOLARSHIP INC: $1,135,900 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetLEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY: $1,121,372 over 3y, 19% of budgetCHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA: $1,006,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIERCE Advocates Families & Individuals Equitably Rooted in Collective Empowerme: $995,747 over 1y, 40% of budgetMassachusetts Bail Fund: $988,660 over 5y, 14% of budgetPILIPINO WORKERS CENTER OF SOUTHERN: $942,140 over 2y, 26% of budgetAKWESASNE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $932,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetBRONXNET PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION(FORMER BRONX COMMUNITY CABLE PROGRAMMING CORP ): $927,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $872,683 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetMONUMENT IMPACT: $844,890 over 2y, 15% of budgetIMOGEN ROCHE FOUNDATION INC: $843,800 over 1y, 69% of budgetST LAWRENCE COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL: $827,550 over 2y, 88% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Proteus Fund IncActblue Charities IncNEO Philanthropy IncMovement Strategy Cen…The Heising-Simons Fo…Evelyn and Walter Haa…Solidago FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…Borealis PhilanthropyGroundswell FundCalifornia Physicians…Common Counsel Founda…
Proteus Fund IncMA87× affinity131 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Tides Center funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tides Center. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
67report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 1573 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 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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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home