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Tides Foundation

Tides Foundation
Founded1976; 50 years ago (1976)
FounderDrummond Pike
TypePublic charity
Location(s)San Francisco, California
New York City, New York[1]
Region served
Worldwide
ServicesDonor-advised fund, fiscal sponsorships, collective action funds, consulting services
Key people
Janiece Evans-Page (CEO)[2]
Revenue$350 million (2023)[3]
Expenses$712 million (2023)[3]
Websitewww.tides.org

Tides Foundation is a left-leaning donor advised fund based in the United States that manages over $1.4 billion in assets.[4] It was founded in San Francisco in 1976 by Drummond Pike. Tides distributes money from anonymous donors to other organizations, which are often politically progressive.[5]

History

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Tides was founded in 1976 by philanthropist Drummond Pike with assistance from Jane Bagley Lehman, granddaughter of R.J. Reynolds. Lehman was the organization's chair from 1976 until her death in 1988; Pike was the organization's chief executive officer until 2010.[6][7] It is named after Tides Bookstore, a defunct bookstore in Sausalito.[8] Tides was conceived as a nationally oriented community foundation, and founded out of Pike's frustration with established philanthropy's perceived neglect of progressive issues.[9]: 133 

Pike envisioned using fiscal sponsorship for progressive political activism.[10]: 69  Fiscal sponsorship uses a tax-exempt charity to provide financial support to a non-exempt project or organization, thereby lending it tax exemption as long as the charity retains control of the way its funds are spent.[10]: 67  In The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age, David Callahan wrote that Pike was an "entrepreneurial activist" and that Pike and his "wealthy friends" united to create Tides which "used donor-advised funds to direct resources to progressive causes."[11]: 202  Callahan, who is the co-founder of the think tank Demos, contrasted this with a similar approach taken by DonorsTrust, an American non-profit donor-advised fund founded in 1999 to safeguard the "intent of libertarian and conservative donors".[12][11]: 204–205 

Tides founded People for the American Way with Norman Lear and the National Network of Grantmakers in 1980.[13] By the 1990s, Tides was providing more than US$10 million in grants annually.[12] In 2000, Tides launched a program called "Bridging the Economic Divide." It focused on funding living wage campaigns and economic justice coalitions. Tides also launched the Tides Death Penalty Mobilization Fund, which supports the anti-death penalty movement. The Michigan Partnership to Prevent Gun Violence was founded with support from Tides.[14][15]

Tides allocated $75 million per year in donor money by 2009, most of which went to fund progressive political causes.[16]: 202 

Tides has been the subject of rhetorical attacks by conservative commentators, including Glenn Beck and others on Fox News.[17] In 2010, an assassin attempted to attack the offices of Tides, but was stopped by members of the California Highway Patrol.[18] The assassin said they were inspired by what they had seen on Fox News. Following the attack, Pike called for advertisers to pull their sponsorships for programs on the network.[19]

The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization which manages Wikipedia, has worked with the Tides Foundation since 2016. The multimillion-dollar Wikimedia Endowment was created in 2016 to support the Wikimedia projects and was managed by Tides until 2023, when it was spun off into its own nonprofit.[20][21] In 2019, Wikimedia's incoming general counsel, Amanda Keton, became the head of Tides Foundation.[22] In 2020, Wikimedia established a $4.5M donor-advised fund, the Wikimedia Foundation Knowledge Equity Fund, at Tides Advocacy.[23]

In 2020, Tides conducted a campaign encouraging its donors to move funds from more static donor-advised fund accounts to Tides-led initiatives in one of the organization's grantmaking areas, spurring spending and grantmaking, leading to Tides providing approximately $200M in grants to promote civic engagement and combat voter suppression in 2024.[24]

Donations

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Organizations that began as projects of Tides include Campaign to Defend the Constitution, Higher Education Recruitment Consortium, People for the American Way, Pew Internet and American Life Project, Rockridge Institute, Social Venture Network, Urgent Action Fund, and V-Day.[25][non-primary source needed] The Tides website lists 130 current grantees.[26] As Tides is a public charity, it allows sponsors to donate money to different organizations—including for-profit as well as nonprofit entities—through donor-advised funds.[27] Donor-advised funds are funds held in accounts by nonprofit organizations, like Tides, that then make grants to third-party entities on the donor's behalf.[28] Organizations that have partnered with Tides to set up these funds include Girl Rising and the Humble Bundle.[29][30][non-primary source needed]

Tides launched a program called "Bridging the Economic Divide" in 2020. It focused on funding living wage campaigns and economic justice coalitions. Tides also launched the Tides Death Penalty Mobilization Fund, which supports the anti-death penalty movement. The Michigan Partnership to Prevent Gun Violence was founded with support from Tides.[14]

The Open Society Foundations, funded by George Soros, contributed $25.8 million to Tides between 2020 and 2021, earmarking some of its donations for pro-Palestinian causes. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund contributed nearly $1 million to Tides in 2023, earmarking the majority of it for Palestine Legal and the Adalah Justice Project. The Ford Foundation is also a donor to the Tides Foundation.[31]

The Tides Foundation has funded Jewish Voice for Peace, the Council on American Islamic Relations, IfNotNow, Code Pink, and the Westchester County Peace Action Committee, which supports Students for Justice in Palestine and American Muslims for Palestine. These organizations have been involved in pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses in 2024 and 2025.[31]

The Washington Free Beacon reported that in 2023, the Tides Foundation gave $286,000 to the Alliance for Global Justice, a group best known for serving as the fiscal sponsor of Samidoun. Samidoun has been designated as a terrorist group by Canada and Israel. Samidoun was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department in October 2024 and labeled a "sham charity" for providing material support to a Palestinian terrorist organization that participated in the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks.[32][33]

In 2024, Jewish Insider reported that the Tides Foundation had funded a number of organizations involved in anti-Israel protests on college campuses and was "facing scrutiny from the House Ways and Means Committee for serving as a conduit to hide the identity of donors to its grantees."[34]

In May 2024, Politico reported that the Tides Foundation was "seeded by Democratic megadonor George Soros." Politico reported that Tides was funding Columbia University pro-Palestinian campus protests and occupations during the Gaza war via its donations to Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow.[35]

Reception and image

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Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse described Tides as a dark money group on the left, similar to those on the right.[36] The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLM GNF) sued Tides in 2024 for alleged mismanagement of donations and improperly withholding managed funds.[37] BLM GNF voluntarily dismissed its suit against Tides, with prejudice, and retracted all claims and allegations as part of the settlement in 2026.[38]

Advocacy Fund

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Tides is affiliated with the Tides Advocacy Fund (also known as Tides Advocacy), a liberal lobbying group.[39] In the 2012 election cycle, the Advocacy Fund gave $11.5 million to 501(c)(4) organizations, including $2 million to the League of Conservation Voters, $1.8 million to America Votes and $1.3 million to the Center for Community Change.[40] The Advocacy Fund has also supported the environmentally-focused groups Bold Nebraska, National Wildlife Federation Action Fund, NRDC Action Fund, and the Sierra Club.[41]

The Advocacy Fund contributed to campaigns opposing Colorado Amendment 46, Colorado Amendment 47, Colorado Amendment 49 and Colorado Amendment 54 in 2008.[42] The Advocacy Fund distributed $11.8 million in grants in 2013 to groups promoting mass amnesty for illegal immigrants, increased worker protections, chemical safety legal reform, and increased investment in the solar energy industry.[43]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Contact Us". Tides. Archived from the original on June 29, 2017. Retrieved February 22, 2015.
  2. ^ "Tides Network Selects Janiece Evans-Page as Next CEO". The Chronicle of Philanthropy. October 23, 2020. Retrieved June 23, 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Tides Foundation - Nonprofit Explorer". ProPublica. May 9, 2013. Retrieved June 17, 2025.
  4. ^ Spoto, Maia (May 7, 2024). "BLM Nonprofit Says Tides Foundation Mismanaged $33 Million". Bloomberg Law. Retrieved September 10, 2024.
  5. ^ Wexler, Celia (August 10, 2022). "Think Tank Leaders Don't Lack for Ideas, But Fundraising Can Still Be Brutal". Inside Philanthropy. Retrieved September 16, 2022.
  6. ^ "Jane Lehman, 55; Active in Philanthropy". The New York Times. April 21, 1988. Retrieved April 16, 2025.
  7. ^ "Tides Foundation". Inside Philanthropy. Retrieved April 18, 2025.
  8. ^ Ashley, Beth (December 19, 2004). "Setting his own course". Marin Independent Journal. Retrieved June 10, 2025 – via LexisNexis.
  9. ^ Faber, Daniel; McCarthy, Deborah (2005). Foundations for Social Change: Critical Perspectives on Philanthropy and Popular Movements. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-7425-4988-3. Retrieved April 16, 2025.
  10. ^ a b Manheim, Jarol B. (2004). Biz-War and the Out-of-Power Elite: The Progressive-Left Attack on the Corporation. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. ISBN 978-1-135-60999-3. Retrieved April 16, 2025.
  11. ^ a b Callahan, David (2017). The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age (1st ed.). New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 9781101971048. Retrieved April 16, 2025.
  12. ^ a b Callahan, David (August 23, 2017). "Inside DonorsTrust: What This Mission-Driven DAF Offers Philanthropists on the Right". Inside Philanthropy. Retrieved April 16, 2025.
  13. ^ "1976–2001: 25 Years of Working Toward Positive Social Change" (PDF). Tides. September 14, 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 20, 2016. Retrieved April 22, 2025.
  14. ^ a b Anheier & Leat 2006, p. 57.
  15. ^ Rojc, Philip (December 13, 2016). "Capital Against Capital Punishment: Who's Fighting the Death Penalty?". Inside Philanthropy. Retrieved April 22, 2025.
  16. ^ Callahan, David (2017) [2010]. The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age. Alfred A. Knopf. p. 343. ISBN 978-1-101-97104-8.
  17. ^ Hamm, Mark S.; Spaaij, Ramón (2017). The Age of Lone Wolf Terrorism. Studies in Transgression. New York City: Columbia University Press. pp. 84–88. ISBN 978-0-231-54377-4. OCLC 1023543806.
  18. ^ "Highway Shooter Targeted Tides Foundation, ACLU". KTVU. July 21, 2010. Archived from the original on August 3, 2011. Retrieved April 21, 2025.
  19. ^ Stein, Sam (October 15, 2010). "Tides Foundation CEO To Fox News Advertisers: Drop Glenn Beck Or Have Blood On Your Hands". Huffington Post. Retrieved April 18, 2025.
    • Pike, Drummond (October 15, 2010). "Dear Fox Advertiser". What's Possible: The Tides Blog. Archived from the original on October 18, 2010. Retrieved October 18, 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  20. ^ "Wikimedia Endowment - Meta". meta.wikimedia.org. Retrieved November 24, 2022.
  21. ^ Ramirez, Martha (March 6, 2025). "Who's Funding Wikipedia and Why Is It Under Attack?". Inside Philanthropy. Retrieved October 8, 2025.
  22. ^ "Wikimedia Foundation welcomes Amanda Keton as General Counsel". Wikimedia Foundation. October 3, 2019. Retrieved June 25, 2021.
  23. ^ "Knowledge Equity Fund/Frequently asked questions - Meta". meta.wikimedia.org. Retrieved November 24, 2022.
  24. ^ Scutari, Mike (November 4, 2024). "Facing Democracy Threats, Tides Foundation Aims to Stay Responsive". Inside Philanthropy. Retrieved April 18, 2025.
  25. ^ "History". Tides. Archived from the original on May 4, 2015. Retrieved February 22, 2015.
  26. ^ "Project Directory". Tides. Retrieved February 22, 2015.
  27. ^ Kellow 2007, p. 144.
  28. ^ "A philanthropic boom: "donor-advised funds"". The Economist. March 23, 2017. Retrieved June 14, 2017.
  29. ^ "What is the Girl Rising Fund?". Girl Rising. 2017. Archived from the original on October 31, 2016. Retrieved June 24, 2017.
  30. ^ "Humble Bundle Giving Fund at Tides Foundation". Humble Support. Retrieved October 20, 2017.
  31. ^ a b Harkov, Lahav (May 21, 2024). "Dark money group backing anti-Israel campus activity faces scrutiny for its practices". Jewish Insider. Retrieved June 17, 2025.
  32. ^ Kerr, Andrew (November 13, 2024). "Soros-Backed Dark Money Giant Bankrolled the Fiscal Sponsor of US-Designated Terror Financier Samidoun, Tax Forms Show". Washington Free Beacon. Retrieved June 17, 2025.
  33. ^ "Little-known charity funded by major liberal groups sponsors anti-Israel organizations aligned with BDS". Denver Gazette. November 12, 2022. Retrieved February 25, 2026.
  34. ^ Harkov, Lahav (May 21, 2024). "Dark money group backing anti-Israel campus activity faces scrutiny for its practices". Jewish Insider. Retrieved June 17, 2025.
  35. ^ Kapos, Shia (June 7, 2024). "Who is funding the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University". POLITICO. Retrieved June 17, 2025.
  36. ^ Rodgers, Jack (March 10, 2021). "Dark Money Judicial Influence Examined in Senate". Courthouse News Service. Retrieved May 30, 2022.
  37. ^ Daniels, Alex (May 22, 2024). "Why Tides and Black Lives Matter Are Fighting Over $33 Million". The Chronicle of Philanthropy. Retrieved September 10, 2024.
  38. ^ Spoto, Maia (March 17, 2026). "BLM Nonprofit Drops Fraud Lawsuit Against Tides Foundation". Bloomberg Law. Retrieved March 18, 2026.
  39. ^ Choma, Russ; Vendituoli, Monica (July 22, 2013). "Advocacy Fund Spends Millions to Lobby on Immigration". OpenSecrets.
  40. ^ Blumenthal, Paul (April 9, 2014). "Nothing Really Compares To The Koch Brothers' Political Empire". Huffington Post. Retrieved February 22, 2015.
  41. ^ Yachnin, Jennifer (December 11, 2013). "Still 'electing the best, defeating the worst' -- but with far greater resources than before". E&E Publishing. Retrieved February 23, 2015.
  42. ^ "Tides Advocacy Fund". Follow The Money. National Institute on Money in State Politics. Retrieved February 23, 2015.
  43. ^ Blumenthal, Paul (January 29, 2015). "Groups With Liberal Ties Tapped To Re-Elect The GOP Establishment". Huffington Post. Retrieved February 23, 2015.

Further reading

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  • Anheier, Helmut K.; Leat, Diana (2006). Creative Philanthropy: Toward a New Philanthropy for the Twenty-First Century. Routledge. ISBN 9781134197651.
  • Kellow, Aynsley J. (2007). Science and Public Policy: The Virtuous Corruption of Virtual Environmental Science. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781847208767.
  • Manheim, Jarol B. (2004). Biz-War and the Out-of-Power Elite: The Progressive-Left Attack on the Corporation. Psychology Press. ISBN 9780805850680.
  • McCarthy, Deborah; Faber, Daniel (2005). Foundations for Social Change: Critical Perspectives on Philanthropy and Popular Movements. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9780742549883.
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Tides Foundation

Tides Foundation is a left-leaning donor advised fund based in the United States that manages over $1.4 billion in assets. It was founded in San Francisco in 1976 by Drummond Pike. Tides distributes money from anonymous donors to other organizations, which are often politically progressive.

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Program on International Policy Attitudes

The Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) is an institution devoted to research on the public opinion of international politics. It is jointly run by the Center on Policy Attitudes and the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland at the School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland, College Park. PIPA has investigated topics such as the public perceptions of United States international politics and of international organisations (NATO, the United Nations, and the International Monetary Fund). It maintains the Americans and the World website, described as a "source of comprehensive information on US public opinion on international issues". In January 2006, PIPA launched WorldPublicOpinion.org, a comprehensive website devoted to public opinion on international policy and affairs, stating that while "Others report what the world does, we report what the world thinks." Sponsors include the Rockefeller Foundation, Tides Foundation and the Ford Foundation.

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The Story of Stuff

The Story of Stuff is a short animated documentary about the lifecycle of material goods. The documentary is critical of excessive consumerism and promotes sustainability. Filmmaker Annie Leonard wrote and narrated the film, which was funded by Tides Foundation, Funders Workgroup for Sustainable Production and Consumption, Free Range Studios and other foundations. Free Range Studios also produced the documentary, which was first launched online on December 4, 2007. The documentary is used in elementary schools, arts programs, and economics classes as well as places of worship and corporate sustainability trainings. By February 2009, it had been seen in 228 countries and territories. According to the Los Angeles Times as of July 2010, the film had been translated into 15 languages and had been viewed by over 12 million people.

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Drummond Pike

Drummond MacGavin Pike (born October 11, 1948) is an American philanthropist and progressive political activist. He founded the Tides Foundation in 1976 and served as its president until 2010. He currently serves as a principal at Equilibrium Capital Group. Pike helped pioneer the advent of donor-advised funds in philanthropy.

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