The Tides Approach

Building Power Through Partnership

Our Vision
Each of Tides’ offerings is designed to shift power and resources to frontline leaders to support their goals. Funders and changemakers choose Tides because they share this commitment to our mission and core issue areas, including:

/ Environmental and climate justice
/ Decision-making power
/ Reproductive justice
/ Democracy and voting rights

We cross boundaries and link sectors, communities and cultures

We are silo-busters. Long-lasting social change requires systemic thinking, joint investment in outcomes, and cross-sector approaches.

We act with empathy and respect

We are realistic about what we don’t know and always open to new points of view. Respectful dialogue can lead to new innovations.

We engage with those whose lives are most affected

Community voices are at the core of our work. Communities that face systemic barriers to power and those closest to the problems we aim to fix hold the knowledge to find and implement solutions.

We embrace risk

We’re not afraid of the untested. We take smart risks as we adapt to a constantly changing world and rise to increasingly complex challenges.

We prioritize ideas that scale

Tides has decades of insight that we leverage in order to find, fund, and support ideas with the most potential for advancing social justice.

We unite doers and donors to spark lasting change.

True social justice impact requires diverse models and tools to drive change.

Philanthropy, movement building, impact investing, and advocacy cannot be siloed if we actually want to restore power to communities who’ve historically been denied power. Tides pushes the boundaries with every partnership, looking for ways to amplify impact using every tool at our disposal. For decades, we’ve innovated how we drive change, bringing together funders, social justice leaders, and creative philanthropic and nonprofit solutions to fuel impactful, equity-rooted work.

2021 By the Numbers

$1.7B in total assets
$638M granted by Tides Foundation and Tides Center
93 countries worldwide who received grants from Tides Foundation and Tides Center
3,318 grantee partners
158 Tides employees

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140+ fiscally sponsored partners

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$750M+ in impact investments and socially responsible portfolios

Our impact investing approach

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Read about leaders fostering change with Tides

Center for Care Innovations

Our partnership with CCI has encouraged us to push the boundaries of what’s possible, both within our own organization and within the community healthcare field as a whole.

FRIDA Young Feminist Fund

Working side-by-side with Tides, FRIDA can trust that its collective action fund and grantmaking are in the best possible hands, allowing its team to focus on identifying and amplifying the most promising voices in young feminist organizing.

Californians for Safety and Justice

With Tides as a partner and fiscal sponsor, Californians for Safety and Justice built a powerful coalition focused on reforming mass incarceration practices across the state.

Pledge 1%

Pledge 1% demonstrates the depth and breadth of Tides’ commitment to corporate philanthropy. The expanding network of companies that dedicate their time and assets in service of social impact is transforming a trend into a movement, and Tides is deeply invested in the effort.

Tikva Grassroots Empowerment Fund

With Tides’ efficient systems and dedicated staff at the ready, Tikva can function with the vision and reach of a full-fledged foundation without the accompanying administrative burden.

Equality Without Borders Fund

EWB came together to advance LGBTI equality, including relationship recognition, decriminalization, and gender identity protections.

Working with Tides allows us to keep our attention where it should be — on the long-term moving of hearts, minds, and policy for lasting change and greater opportunity — and gives us the support to take bold steps forward, whether into a new and larger office or through an ambitious new strategy we want to explore. Their support and advice is crucial to our efficiency and effectiveness.
Jessica Wells-Hasan Director of Development, The Opportunity Agenda

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The Tides Approach

Center for Care Innovations

FRIDA Young Feminist Fund

Californians for Safety and Justice

Pledge 1%

Tikva Grassroots Empowerment Fund

Equality Without Borders Fund

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