Stronger Together Fund

Connecting doers with donors is central to the Tides mission. The Tides Stronger Together Fund is one way we act on that commitment, providing general support grants to Tides Center fiscally sponsored partners with a focus on groups that are assisting historically underserved communities so they remain responsive to their communities.

Two Latine volunteers high-fiving at a polling center. Photo credit: Silver State Voices, a Tides Healthy Democracy Fund grantee Daniel Klanott with Chilkat Indian Village (Klukwan) and Stacie Evans of Takshanuk Watershed Council collect water quality samples in the Klehini River downstream of a proposed sulfide metals mine. Photo credit: Takshanuk Watershed Council, a Tides Frontline Justice Fund grantee A group of Latine people painting a community mural together. Photo credit: Comite Dialogo Ambiental, Inc, a Tides Frontline Justice Fund grantee
Two Latine volunteers high-fiving at a polling center. Photo credit: Silver State Voices, a Tides Healthy Democracy Fund grantee Daniel Klanott with Chilkat Indian Village (Klukwan) and Stacie Evans of Takshanuk Watershed Council collect water quality samples in the Klehini River downstream of a proposed sulfide metals mine. Photo credit: Takshanuk Watershed Council, a Tides Frontline Justice Fund grantee A group of Latine people painting a community mural together. Photo credit: Comite Dialogo Ambiental, Inc, a Tides Frontline Justice Fund grantee

Support Power Building in Historically Underserved Communities

Strengthening the core capacity of an organization goes beyond increasing its reach — it can create lasting impact for the community it serves. While existing inequities within the philanthropic sector can stunt and destabilize nonprofit organizations, Tides’ funding seeks to center the leadership of changemakers who are proximate to the issues and communities they champion, and to amplify the critical community support they provide.

Tides’ Stronger Together Fund builds the capacity of our existing fiscally sponsored partners so they can continue to serve underinvested communities.

A Black girl smiling on a sports field. Photo credit: StockSnap

The Stronger Together Fund connects donors to the organizations on the ground that are pushing back against structural inequities—and the suffering that comes with them.

Our Impact

We’re strengthening our partners and their work to shift power toward community leaders and groups that have long been under-resourced.

109 Unrestricted Grants Awarded
RAZE Co-Executive Director, Pablo Correa, meets with Team Yuma at the start of the 2022 voter registration season. Photo credit: Rural Arizona Engagement, a Tides Healthy Democracy Fund grantee
$2.4M Total Amount Awarded
Three Black organizers, two carrying clipboards, getting ready to register voters. Photo credit: Michigan Voices, a Tides Healthy Democracy Fund grantee
$22K Average Grant Awarded
A Black woman standing in the center of a multiracial circle of people at a meeting with a rainbow flag laid on the ground in the center of the circle. Photo credit: All Out, a single entity fund at Tides

Funding Priorities

The Stronger Together Fund’s powerful pooled funding model supports the capacity-building efforts of community leaders and changemakers within Tides Center. 

  • A Muslim woman speaking into a mic at the WOC LeadStrong event. Photo credit: LeaderSpring Center, a Tides fiscally sponsored partner

    Tides’ Fiscally Sponsored Partners

    This fund is designed to support the more than 120 partners that are already fiscally sponsored through Tides Center. These partners are closely aligned with Tides’ mission and vision of shifting power to communities that have historically been denied power and resources by centering leadership from and by those communities.

  • A group of Latine organizers marching with United Farm Workers flags which are red with a black Aztec eagle at the center. Photo credit: La Union del Pueblo Entero, a Tides Immigrants Belong Fund grantee

    Meaningful Impact

    The Tides Stronger Together Fund strengthens Tides Center’s fiscally sponsored partners by supporting capacity building, sustainability, and organizational health. These resources help organizations overcome potential barriers to their missions, including operational challenges, financial loss, unsupported programmatic costs, and increased demand for services.

  • A large multiracial group of people standing together from Florida Rising, some people are raising their fists into the air. Photo credit: Florida Rising, a Tides Healthy Democracy Fund grantee

    Community Perspectives

    Tides trusts that grantees hold the expertise to direct funds effectively. By empowering social change organizations with general operating dollars, grants from the Stronger Together Fund are directed where they are most needed.

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