Shifting Power. Advancing Social Justice.

Tides is a nonprofit and philanthropic organization dedicated to advancing social justice. Together with our partners, we shift resources and power to communities that have historically been denied both to unlock transformative change.

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Social Change Leaders

Increase the Impact of My Mission-Driven Organization

Learn how Tides provides operational, grantmaking, and capacity-building support to ignite the work of social change leaders through fiscal sponsorship and other offerings.
Individual & Family Donors

Direct My Personal Philanthropic Funds to Just Causes

Tides connects individuals and families with philanthropic tools to shift power toward leaders on the ground striving for justice with tools such as donors advised funds.
Corporations

Design an Equity-Centered Corporate Philanthropy Strategy

Corporations partner with Tides to develop and execute philanthropic programs that move resources directly to leaders working to effect lasting change.
Foundations

Choose From Innovative Philanthropic Strategies

Tides offers giving initiatives that allow foundations to propel impactful equity-rooted work through several grantmaking structures.

What We Offer

Our commitment as a nonprofit and philanthropic organization is to connect historically excluded groups with services, capacity building, and resources, amplifying their impact in the fight for justice.

Our Impact

Through the collective power and passion of our network, we’re forging a more just and equitable future.

$875M In Managed Assets

A large multiracial and gender diverse group of people from Poder Latinx, a Tides Healthy Democracy Fund grantee.

4,000+ Grantees in 2023

Refugee community members join Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights, a Tides I-Belong grantee, for a grassroots lobby day to share their powerful stories with their state legislators and advocate for a welcoming Tennessee.

120+ Active Fiscally Sponsored Partners

A Muslim woman from LeaderSpring Center, a fiscally sponsored partner of Tides, speaking at a the WOC LeadStrong event.

Community Stories

Celebrate the ingenuity and tenacity of the bold visionaries working with Tides to foster change.

Tides partnered with the Green New Deal Network — a coalition of environmental and climate justice organizations — to oversee grantmaking administration and due diligence as they push for policy solutions to address the climate crisis. Since 2019, the Green New Deal Network has sparked the passage of a federal commitment and three major federal investment packages totaling nearly $3.5 trillion to push for environmental and climate justice.

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