TIDES ADVOCACY

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 68 funders, grant income rose $11M → $15M.

16 of 207 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $229M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Tides Foundation); $209k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Tides Advocacy). These are real filings, and they are not money TIDES ADVOCACY raised.

From the IRS filings of TIDES ADVOCACY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 207 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

TIDES ADVOCACY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

96% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund TIDES ADVOCACY.

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 38% · 2019 52% · 2020 30% · 2021 46% · 2022 25% · 2023 29% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

44% of TIDES ADVOCACY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

TIDES ADVOCACY draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 23 states in all.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.