California · Nonprofit
TIDES ADVOCACY
TIDES ADVOCACY (California) receives grants from 209 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,065,687 to it, the largest being OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC ($28,345,000). 103 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $93M
- Funders on record
- 209
- Grants received
- $133M
- Net assets
- $28M
What Tides Advocacy does
Mission
The mission of Tides Advocacy is to advocate for and make grants in support of social justice, the environment, and the health of our democracy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Tides Advocacy supports, through advocacy and grantmaking, innovative initiatives to bridge boundaries and sustain investment in social change. Our primary areas of focus include: promoting equality, human rights and shared prosperity; improving and protecting health and the environment; and advancing democracy.
$81,771,492 spentof which $29,700,480 as grants$1,492,323 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $81,771,492.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $30M to $54M (+82%).
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.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Vincent Jones
Board chair / CEO (as of 2/2024)
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 68 funders, grant income rose $11M → $15M.
17 of 209 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 209 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.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
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; 49% 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.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is 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.
Organizations like TIDES ADVOCACY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 26 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TIDES ADVOCACY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TIDES ADVOCACY?
- TIDES ADVOCACY (California) receives grants from 209 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,065,687 to it, the largest being OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC ($28,345,000). 103 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TIDES ADVOCACY have?
- IRS filings report 209 organizations giving $133,065,687 in grants to TIDES ADVOCACY, 103 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TIDES ADVOCACY?
- OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $28,345,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TIDES ADVOCACY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 209 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing