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Tides Foundation

Name: Tides Foundation grants, 2022–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

9,402
grants reported: $1.86B
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $50,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

communities healthy individuals economic empowerment equity human rights

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

State-level civic engagement and voter organizing tables
Racial, gender, and LGBTQ+ equity advocacy and litigation
Fiscal sponsorship intermediaries and pooled donor-advised funds
Reproductive freedom and health access campaigns
Climate, energy, and environmental justice organizing
Tech-sector education pipelines and data infrastructure for nonprofits

Typical grant

Median grant is $50,000, with the middle half between $20,000 and $140,000, so most of the 9,400 grants are modest pass-throughs from donor-advised accounts. The seven-figure checks go to affiliated or intermediary entities (Tides Advocacy, Tides Center, ImpactAssets, New Venture Fund, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors) and to state civic engagement tables in battleground states. Repeat giving is heavy: 9,402 grants went to 4,489 recipients over three years, so a typical funded organization gets money more than once.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

“EQUITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT”
“HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES”
“SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT”
“QUALITY EDUCATION”

Positioning adjacent work

Map your work to one of the four named buckets; Tides codes every grant to exactly one.
Ask in the $50,000 to $150,000 range unless you are a statewide table or intermediary.
Emphasize community organizing and lived-experience leadership over academic outputs; university grants are a small minority.
If your work touches state politics, name the state; Ohio, Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nevada recur.

Worth knowing: Tides is a donor-advised fund sponsor, not a conventional grantmaker, so most giving is directed by individual donors and reads as relationship-driven rather than responsive to unsolicited approaches. California, New York, and DC recipients take over half the grant count, and the largest dollars cycle through Tides' own affiliated entities and peer fiscal sponsors.

4 grants matching “chefs” · $1.2M

$515,000
Chef Ann Foundation · Boulder, CO · 2024
Healthy individuals and communities
$100,000
Chef Ann Foundation · Boulder, CO · 2023
Healthy individuals and communities
$275,000
Chef Ann Foundation · Boulder, CO · 2022
Healthy individuals and communities
$275,000
Chef Ann Foundation · Boulder, CO · 2022
Healthy individuals and communities

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Tides Advocacy4 grants · $105.4M
Working Families Organization4 grants · $58.7M
Tides Center4 grants · $36.8M
State Democracy Project2 grants · $30.5M
Opportunity Finance Network3 grants · $21.8M
Academy for the Love of Learning3 grants · $21.0M
Asia Foundation4 grants · $20.7M
Windward Fund4 grants · $17.5M
New Venture Fund4 grants · $15.4M
One Love Global4 grants · $14.7M

Giving over time

$1.01B

2022

$466.6M

2023

$382.1M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 9,402 grants.

$29.3M
Tides Advocacy · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Healthy individuals and communities
$28.2M
Tides Advocacy · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$25.5M
Working Families Organization · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$25.5M
Working Families Organization · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$23.9M
Tides Advocacy · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Healthy individuals and communities
$23.9M
Tides Advocacy · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Healthy individuals and communities
$20.3M
State Democracy Project · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$16.5M
Asia Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$11.3M
Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Healthy individuals and communities
$11.3M
Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Healthy individuals and communities
$10.7M
Opportunity Finance Network · Washington, DC · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$10.7M
Opportunity Finance Network · Washington, DC · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$10.2M
State Democracy Project · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$10.2M
Windward Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
Sustainable environment
$10.0M
Kunhardt Film Foundation · Pleasantville, NY · 2023
Quality education
$9.6M
Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Healthy individuals and communities
$9.0M
V-Day · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Healthy individuals and communities
$8.9M
Wikimedia Endowment · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Healthy individuals and communities
$8.3M
Impactassets · Bethesda, MD · 2024
Healthy individuals and communities
$8.0M
Academy for the Love of Learning · Santa Fe, NM · 2022
Quality education
$8.0M
Academy for the Love of Learning · Santa Fe, NM · 2022
Quality education
$7.2M
One Love Global · Lansing, MI · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$7.2M
One Love Global · Lansing, MI · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$6.5M
For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology · Manchester, NH · 2023
Quality education
$6.3M
Calso Community · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Quality education
$6.2M
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
Healthy individuals and communities
$6.2M
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
Healthy individuals and communities
$6.0M
Aarp Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022
Healthy individuals and communities
$6.0M
Aarp Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022
Healthy individuals and communities
$5.2M
World Wildlife Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
Sustainable environment
$5.1M
The New School · New York, NY · 2023
Quality education
$5.1M
Pro Mujer · Manhasset, NY · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$5.1M
Pro Mujer · Manhasset, NY · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$5.0M
Academy for the Love of Learning · Santa Fe, NM · 2024
Quality education
$5.0M
American Ai Forum · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Quality education
$5.0M
Woodwell Climate Research Center · Falmouth, MA · 2023
Sustainable environment
$4.7M
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022
Healthy individuals and communities
$4.7M
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022
Healthy individuals and communities
$4.6M
Tides Center · Olympia, WA · 2023
Healthy individuals and communities
$4.6M
Working Families Organization · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$4.5M
All Hands On Deck Network · Northampton, MA · 2022
Healthy individuals and communities
$4.5M
All Hands On Deck Network · Northampton, MA · 2022
Healthy individuals and communities
$4.5M
Movement Voter Fund · Northampton, MA · 2023
Healthy individuals and communities
$4.4M
Friends of the World Food Program · Washington, DC · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$4.4M
Friends of the World Food Program · Washington, DC · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$4.3M
Trans Justice Funding Project · Portland, OR · 2024
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$4.3M
Wikimedia Foundation Org · Washington, DC · 2023
Healthy individuals and communities
$4.2M
Movement Voter Fund · Northampton, MA · 2024
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$4.0M
Self-Realization Fellowship Church · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Healthy individuals and communities
$3.9M
Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Healthy individuals and communities
$3.8M
Kashif Incubator · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
Quality education
$3.8M
Kashif Incubator · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
Quality education
$3.8M
Native American Community Academy Foundation · Albuquerque, NM · 2023
Quality education
$3.7M
Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights · Columbus, OH · 2023
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$3.4M
Abode Services · Fremont, CA · 2023
Healthy individuals and communities
$3.4M
Brookings Institution · Washington, DC · 2023
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$3.3M
Floridians Protecting Freedom · Miami, FL · 2024
Healthy individuals and communities
$3.3M
Nextgen Climate America · Sacramento, CA · 2024
Healthy individuals and communities
$3.3M
Windward Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
Sustainable environment
$3.3M
Windward Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
Sustainable environment
$3.3M
Working Families Organization · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$3.3M
National 4-H Council · Chevy Chase, MD · 2022
Quality education
$3.3M
National 4-H Council · Chevy Chase, MD · 2022
Quality education
$3.2M
Leadership Conference Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$3.1M
Climate Strategies Lab Llc · Cincinnati, OH · 2024
Sustainable environment
$3.0M
American Friends of Natal · New York, NY · 2023
Healthy individuals and communities
$3.0M
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research · Washington, DC · 2023
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$3.0M
Robotics Education and Competition Foundation · Greenville, TX · 2023
Quality education
$3.0M
Institute for Sustainable Communities · Montpelier, VT · 2022
Healthy individuals and communities
$3.0M
Institute for Sustainable Communities · Montpelier, VT · 2022
Healthy individuals and communities
$2.9M
Friends of the World Food Program · Washington, DC · 2023
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$2.9M
Hamilton Families · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$2.9M
Hamilton Families · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$2.9M
Worldwide Indigenous Science Network · Lahaina, HI · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$2.9M
Worldwide Indigenous Science Network · Lahaina, HI · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$2.8M
All Hands On Deck Network · Northampton, MA · 2023
Healthy individuals and communities
$2.8M
Common Counsel Foundation · Oakland, CA · 2023
Healthy individuals and communities
$2.7M
United States Association for Unhcr · Washington, DC · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$2.7M
United States Association for Unhcr · Washington, DC · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$2.7M
Florida Rights Restoration Coalition · Orlando, FL · 2023
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$2.6M
Beneficial State Foundation · Oakland, CA · 2024
Healthy individuals and communities
$2.6M
Nethope · Falls Church, VA · 2024
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$2.5M
International Youth Foundation · Baltimore, MD · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$2.5M
International Youth Foundation · Baltimore, MD · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$2.5M
Poder Latinx · Washington, DC · 2024
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$2.5M
Bay Area Housing Finance Authority · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Healthy individuals and communities
$2.5M
United Nations Foundation · Washington, DC · 2023
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$2.5M
National Urban League · New York, NY · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$2.5M
National Urban League · New York, NY · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$2.5M
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2022
Healthy individuals and communities
$2.5M
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2022
Healthy individuals and communities
$2.5M
Oc Action · Buena Park, CA · 2024
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$2.4M
Jobs for the Future · Boston, MA · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$2.4M
Jobs for the Future · Boston, MA · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$2.4M
Watttime Corporation · Oakland, CA · 2022
Sustainable environment
$2.4M
Watttime Corporation · Oakland, CA · 2022
Sustainable environment
$2.3M
First Nations Development Institute · Longmont, CO · 2023
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$2.3M
Climate Strategies Lab Llc · Cincinnati, OH · 2023
Sustainable environment
$2.3M
Generation - You Employed · Washington, DC · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$2.3M
Generation - You Employed · Washington, DC · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.