A nonprofit & philanthropic organization

Tides at 50.
The Next 50 Starts Now.

For 50 years, Tides has built the infrastructure to help move resources where they’re needed most. Today, that means ensuring communities fighting for a just and equitable future have what they need to thrive.

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Find the path that fits your mission.

Tides collaborates with social change leaders, individuals and families, foundations, and corporations to amplify social justice impact.

Social Change Leaders

Increase the Impact of My Mission-Driven Organization

Access operational, grantmaking, and capacity-building support through fiscal sponsorship and other Tides offerings.

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Individual & Family Donors

Direct My Personal Philanthropic Funds to Just Causes

Use philanthropic tools such as donor advised funds to shift power toward leaders on the ground striving for justice.

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Corporations

Design an Equity-Centered Corporate Philanthropy Strategy

Partner with Tides to develop and execute programs that move resources directly to leaders driving lasting change.

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Foundations

Choose from Innovative Philanthropic Strategies

Use grantmaking, collaborative funding, and strategic approaches to deepen philanthropic impact.

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Building Community Power

Services and resources that amplify social change.

Communities historically denied power already possess the knowledge to realize a just future. Tides shifts money, power, and resources to social change leadership within these communities.

Fiscal Sponsorship

Tides provides a 501(c)(3) home and operational infrastructure to power mission-driven work.

Social Change Leader Funds

Collective action and leader funds help changemakers enhance impact efficiently and effectively.

Tides Initiatives

Discretionary funds support climate justice, racial equity, reproductive freedom, voting rights, and more.

Our Impact

Moving resources. Shifting power.

The latest public Tides impact reporting highlights a network built around community power and resource movement.

$445M+Total grants awarded2024 annual impact reporting.

3,250+Global grantees supported2024 Tides Foundation figure.

125+Organizations fiscally sponsored2024 Tides Center figure.

Community Stories

Celebrate the visionaries working with Tides.

Tides highlights the ingenuity and tenacity of bold leaders and organizations building a more just future.

Green New Deal Network

Tides partnered with the Green New Deal Network to oversee grantmaking administration and due diligence as the coalition pushes for climate justice.

The coalition of environmental and climate justice organizations has helped push major federal investments and policy solutions.

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Our Partners

Deep partnership makes impact possible.

We collaborate with social change leaders, individuals and families, foundations, and corporations to amplify their social justice impact.

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Cities United

Fifth Star Funds

LeaderSpring Center

Children’s Rights Innovation Fund

National Farm to School Network

The Lawyering Project

Google.org

NoVo Foundation

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New ideas, stories, and opportunities.

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