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TIDES INC

TIDES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $295,251 to it, the largest being CENTRE FOUNDATION INC ($138,339). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$281k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$295k
Net assets
$225k
6/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 23%
01What it does

What Tides Inc does

Mission

Our mission is to serve grieving individuals of all ages by providing a healthy and compassionate support system so that no one has to grieve alone.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Tides is committed to providing compassionate grief support to children, teens, and adults who have experienced the death of a loved one. We believe grief is a natural, deeply personal process unique to each individual, and our commitment is to offer a non-judgmental, supportive environment where people of all ages can find healing in their own time. Tides brings together those who are grieving by hosting community and school-based peer support groups, providing educational resources and guidance upon request, delivering crisis response support, and offering a variety of resources to bring hope and comfort to families. Our vision is to foster a community where no one has to navigate grief alone. Continued on schedule o

    $129,585 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $129,585.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($75k) Expenses 100 ($88k) Net assets 100 ($24k)2018 Revenue 149 ($111k) Expenses 84 ($74k) Net assets 249 ($61k)2019 Revenue 170 ($127k) Expenses 103 ($91k) Net assets 397 ($97k)2020 Revenue 128 ($96k) Expenses 106 ($94k) Net assets 405 ($99k)2021 Revenue 170 ($127k) Expenses 108 ($95k) Net assets 535 ($131k)2022 Revenue 216 ($161k) Expenses 153 ($135k) Net assets 642 ($157k)2023 Revenue 208 ($156k) Expenses 177 ($156k) Net assets 641 ($157k)2024 Revenue 376 ($281k) Expenses 241 ($213k) Net assets 920 ($225k)
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Revenue (376)Expenses (241)Net assets (920)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $164k to $233k (+42%).

$31k
$62k
$102k
$103k
$138k
$164k
$164k
$233k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

71% of TIDES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$13k
’17
$36k
’18
$36k
’19
$2k
’20
$32k
’21
$26k
’22
−$377
’23
$68k
’24
13
months of
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.

Chief executive

Holly Oxendale

Executive director

Board chair

Leslie Finton

Board chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.

2017201820192024
Listed12101111
Joined·+3+3·
No longer listed·52·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $9k → $32k.

3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of TIDES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

50% 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 INC.

47%
largest funder
94%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 99% · 2020 76% · 2021 64% · 2022 66% · 2023 72% — 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

100% of TIDES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

50% of TIDES INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $147k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $148k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

TIDES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin24% · top quartile
Months of reserve13.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)21% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like TIDES INC

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 Pennsylvania

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

61% of spending goes to programs.

Program 61%Management 24%Fundraising 15%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds TIDES INC?
TIDES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $295,251 to it, the largest being CENTRE FOUNDATION INC ($138,339). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does TIDES INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $295,251 in grants to TIDES INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TIDES INC?
CENTRE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $138,339 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TIDES INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 9 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing