About Tides Foundation
Provide donors with grantmaking solutions, fiscal sponsorship, and capacity-building to support social change leaders and advance equity and justice.
Focus Areas
Immigrant rights and narrative changeRacial equityNonprofit management and capacity-buildingClimate and environmental justiceVoter engagement and civic participationGender justiceWellness grants for nonprofit staff
Who They Fund
communities (general/community-level interventions)marginalized and underserved populationschildren and youth (education focus)economically disadvantaged individuals/households
Funding Style
About Tides Foundation
Tides Foundation’s recent grantmaking shows a clear pattern of moving large sums through aligned organizations that work on equity, healthy communities, and economic empowerment. Two of the largest 2024 grants went to Tides Advocacy in San Francisco for Healthy Individuals and Communities, including $29,312,169 and $23,947,460, reflecting the scale at which the foundation supports intermediary and fiscally sponsored work. Other major awards point to a broad portfolio that includes Working Families Organization Inc in Brooklyn, New York, and the Asia Foundation in San Francisco, both funded for Equity, Human Rights, and Economic Empowerment. The foundation also backs organizations working in public-interest infrastructure and movement-building, such as Opportunity Finance Network in Washington, DC and State Democracy Project in Brooklyn, New York. Its giving extends to climate and education, with large grants to Windward Fund, Kunhardt Film Foundation, and Academy for the Love of Learning Inc. The result is a grantmaker that combines very large institutional awards with a multi-issue program mix centered on systems-level change.
What Tides Foundation Funds
A major part of Tides Foundation’s portfolio sits around health and community wellbeing. In 2024, it gave $11,283,615 to Tides Center for Healthy Individuals and Communities, and it also awarded $9,000,000 to V-day under the same category. The foundation funds equity and economic empowerment through organizations that work on civic and movement infrastructure. It gave $10,715,000 to Opportunity Finance Network in both 2023 and 2024 for Equity, Human Rights, and Economic Empowerment, and $10,219,014 to State Democracy Project in 2024 for the same theme. Education is another visible area. Grants include $10,000,000 to Kunhardt Film Foundation for Quality Education, $8,000,000 to Academy for the Love of Learning Inc in 2024, and $6,500,000 to For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology in 2024. Climate and environmental work appears through a $10,200,000 grant to Windward Fund and a $5,155,000 grant to World Wildlife Fund Inc.
How Tides Foundation Gives
Tides Foundation’s typical grant size is $20,000 at the 25th percentile, $50,000 at the median, and $134,000 at the 75th percentile, but its recent awards also include very large institutional grants in the millions. The recent grants list shows repeated awards to the same recipients across multiple years, including several 2023 and 2024 grants to the same organizations, which points to ongoing support rather than one-off giving. It is classified as a Mixed - Community Foundation and makes program-related investments. The foundation funds individuals: false. One active fund, the I-Belong Fund, uses $100,000 grants and does not accept unsolicited proposals; the Advancing Girls Fund does accept unsolicited applications.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$1.5B
Total Assets
$534.5M
Total Revenue
$368M
Total Expenses
$468.4M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $20K and $134K, with a median of $50K.
25th Percentile
$20K
Median
$50K
75th Percentile
$134K
Geographic Reach
National52 states funded
About 21% of grants go to recipients in NY.
Funding intensity
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