Funding search · EIN 943213100 · San Francisco, CA

Tides Center

Name: Tides Center 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.

1,810
grants reported: $467.8M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $40,000
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

economic empowerment equity human rights communities healthy individuals

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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

Grassroots racial and economic justice organizing, especially community-led groups
Climate and clean energy advocacy in frontline and rural communities
Puerto Rico civic, agroecology, and gender-violence organizations
Arts, cultural, and documentary organizations serving specific neighborhoods
K-12 and early childhood education equity work
Immigrant rights, criminal legal reform, and civil liberties litigation

Typical grant

Median grant is $40,000, with the middle half falling between $20,000 and $98,697. The very large checks are internal or structural: $13.1M to Tides Advocacy, $8.8M to Tides Foundation, $5.4M to a university research-to-practice center, and those are not comparable to a project ask. Outside those, $100,000 to $150,000 is the top of the normal range, and the 1,810 grants to 938 recipients means many organizations get funded more than once across 2022-2024.

Their words

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

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

Positioning adjacent work

Map your work onto one of their four named categories and use that exact phrase throughout.
Ask $75,000 to $150,000 for a defined project; six-figure-plus asks go to structural partners, not newcomers.
Emphasize community-led design and a named geography; they fund place-specific groups, not national abstractions.
University applicants should partner with a frontline organization; Berkeley, Illinois, and Appalachian State grants read as community-linked.

Worth knowing: Tides Center is a fiscal sponsor and donor-advised intermediary, so much of this money is regranted at the direction of specific donors rather than awarded through independent review, and the two largest 2024 grants went to affiliated Tides entities. Giving concentrates heavily in California and New York, with a striking Puerto Rico cluster (129 recipients), and access is relationship-driven through donors and sponsored projects rather than through any open process.

3 grants matching “homeland” · $316,666

$50,000
Division of Homeland Ministries · Indianapolis, IN · 2024
Sustainable environment
$133,333
Division of Homeland Ministries · Indianapolis, IN · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$133,333
Division of Homeland Ministries · Indianapolis, IN · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment

Top recipients

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

Oneten Coalition2 grants · $106.4M
Tides Advocacy4 grants · $49.9M
Tides Foundation4 grants · $42.9M
Cooperatives for a Better World2 grants · $29.3M
401 State Street Wbu Llc3 grants · $19.1M
Women Building Up2 grants · $17.3M
Alliance for Safety and Justice2 grants · $14.6M
National AIDS Memorial2 grants · $11.0M
Shelterwood Collective1 grant · $9.6M
Transforming Research Into Action To Improve the Lives of Students1 grant · $5.4M

Giving over time

$319.5M

2022

$93.0M

2023

$55.3M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 1,810 grants.

$53.2M
Oneten Coalition · Norfolk, VA · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$53.2M
Oneten Coalition · Norfolk, VA · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$18.2M
Tides Advocacy · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Healthy individuals and communities
$18.2M
Tides Advocacy · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Healthy individuals and communities
$15.8M
Women Building Up · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$15.2M
401 State Street Wbu Llc · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$14.6M
Cooperatives for a Better World · Manchester, NH · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$14.6M
Cooperatives for a Better World · Manchester, NH · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$14.2M
Tides Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Healthy individuals and communities
$14.2M
Tides Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Healthy individuals and communities
$13.1M
Tides Advocacy · West Hollywood, CA · 2024
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$9.6M
Shelterwood Collective · Cazadero, CA · 2023
Sustainable environment
$8.8M
Tides Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$7.3M
Alliance for Safety and Justice · Oakland, CA · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$7.3M
Alliance for Safety and Justice · Oakland, CA · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$5.6M
Tides Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Healthy individuals and communities
$5.5M
National AIDS Memorial · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$5.5M
National AIDS Memorial · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$5.4M
Transforming Research Into Action To Improve the Lives of Students · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$2.7M
Connect Humanity · Palo Alto, CA · 2023
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$2.4M
The California Endowment · Sacramento, CA · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$2.4M
The California Endowment · Sacramento, CA · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$2.4M
Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy · Alexandria, VA · 2023
Healthy individuals and communities
$1.9M
401 State Street Wbu Llc · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Healthy individuals and communities
$1.9M
401 State Street Wbu Llc · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Healthy individuals and communities
$1.5M
Women Building Up · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$1.3M
Advocacy Institute · New York, NY · 2023
Healthy individuals and communities
$1.3M
Prime Produce Limited · New Haven, CT · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$1.3M
Prime Produce Limited · New Haven, CT · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$1.3M
Emergent Works · New York, NY · 2023
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$1.2M
Project Evident · Boston, MA · 2023
Quality education
$1.2M
Public Rights Project · Oakland, CA · 2023
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$1.2M
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2022
Healthy individuals and communities
$1.2M
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2022
Healthy individuals and communities
$1.0M
National Philanthropic Trust · Jenkintown, PA · 2023
Healthy individuals and communities
$995,747
Fierce Advocates Families and Individuals Equitably Rooted in Co · Richmond, CA · 2023
Healthy individuals and communities
$932,000
Akwesasne Boys Girls Club St Regis Mohawk Tribe · Akwesasne, NY · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$932,000
Akwesasne Boys Girls Club St Regis Mohawk Tribe · Akwesasne, NY · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$927,000
Bronx Community Cable Programming Corporation · Bronx, NY · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$927,000
Bronx Community Cable Programming Corporation · Bronx, NY · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$900,000
Prime Produce Limited · New Haven, CT · 2023
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$843,800
Imogen Roche Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$843,800
Imogen Roche Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$843,800
The Bronx Documentary Center · Bronx, NY · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$843,800
The Bronx Documentary Center · Bronx, NY · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$826,000
Haser · San Juan, PR · 2024
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$810,000
First Focus On Children · Washington, DC · 2023
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$800,723
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$784,000
Pilipino Workers Center of Southern · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$760,600
Say Yes Buffalo Scholarship · Buffalo, NY · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$760,600
Say Yes Buffalo Scholarship · Buffalo, NY · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$725,000
County of Solano · Vallejo, CA · 2024
Sustainable environment
$720,512
Jews of Color Initiative · Berkeley, CA · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$720,512
Jews of Color Initiative · Berkeley, CA · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$654,900
Seneca Nation of Indians · Irving, NY · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$654,900
Seneca Nation of Indians · Irving, NY · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$625,000
Monument Impact · Concord, CA · 2023
Healthy individuals and communities
$621,200
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024
Quality education
$600,000
Oak Foundation · Portland, ME · 2023
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$595,000
East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy · Oakland, CA · 2023
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$586,935
Social Good Fund · Richmond, CA · 2023
Sustainable environment
$577,500
Connect Humanity · Palo Alto, CA · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$577,500
Connect Humanity · Palo Alto, CA · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$554,750
Federacion De Maestros De Puerto Rico · San Juan, PR · 2023
Quality education
$552,500
Project Evident · Boston, MA · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$552,500
Project Evident · Boston, MA · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$551,700
St Lawrence County Arts Council · Potsdam, NY · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$551,700
St Lawrence County Arts Council · Potsdam, NY · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$516,678
Springfield Public Schools · Springfield, MA · 2022
Quality education
$516,678
Springfield Public Schools · Springfield, MA · 2022
Quality education
$509,000
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$500,000
City of San Jose · San Jose, CA · 2022
Healthy individuals and communities
$500,000
City of San Jose · San Jose, CA · 2022
Healthy individuals and communities
$500,000
First Focus On Children · Washington, DC · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$500,000
First Focus On Children · Washington, DC · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$495,000
The Center for Popular Democracy · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$495,000
The Center for Popular Democracy · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$486,000
Mindbuilders Creative Arts · Bronx, NY · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$486,000
Mindbuilders Creative Arts · Bronx, NY · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$479,998
Appalachian State University · Boone, NC · 2023
Quality education
$472,859
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation · Redwood City, CA · 2023
Quality education
$466,000
Garment Worker Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$457,012
Givsum Foundation · Costa Mesa, CA · 2024
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$456,000
Childfund International USA · Richmond, VA · 2023
Healthy individuals and communities
$450,000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2023
Healthy individuals and communities
$447,014
Reinvent South Stockton Coalition · Stockton, CA · 2024
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$446,000
Central American Resource Center Carecen of California · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$442,000
Instituto De Educacion Popular Del Sur De California · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Healthy individuals and communities
$421,900
The Bronx Documentary Center · Bronx, NY · 2024
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$421,900
Love Knowledge · Forest Hills, NY · 2023
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$405,000
First Focus On Children · Washington, DC · 2024
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$400,000
Mountain Association for Community Economic Development · Berea, KY · 2024
Sustainable environment
$400,000
Southeast Climate Energy Network · Sunrise, FL · 2024
Sustainable environment
$400,000
Washington University in St Louis · St Louis, MO · 2024
Sustainable environment
$400,000
Western Organization of Resource Education Project · Billings, MT · 2024
Sustainable environment
$400,000
Young Mens Christian Association of the East Bay · Berkeley, CA · 2023
Healthy individuals and communities
$384,500
Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$384,000
Chinese Progressive Association · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$383,513
The Opportunity Agenda · New York, NY · 2022
Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment
$383,513
The Opportunity Agenda · New York, NY · 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.