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Tides Foundation

Tides
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Motto What's Possible
Founded 1976
Founder Drummond Pike
Location
Method Donor-advised fund
Endowment $116,000,000 (2011)
Mission To work toward a more just, peaceful, and sustainable world
Website www.tides.org

Tides is a donor-advised fund that directs money to politically liberal causes. Founded in 1976 in San Francisco, Tides provides money to organizations working to advance progressive policy in the areas of the environment, health care, labor issues, immigrant rights, gay rights, women's rights and human rights. It also offers fiscal sponsorships and management services and manages two centers in San Francisco and New York that offer collaborative spaces for social ventures and other nonprofits. Tides oversees the Tides Center, which helps develop smaller progressive organizations.

Tides was founded in 1976 by Drummond Pike, who worked with Jane Bagley Lehman, heir to the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company fortune. 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. Drummond founded a similar organization, Tides Canada, in 2000.

Tides grew to become the most frequently used donor-advised fund for wealthy West Coast liberals who did not want to start their own family foundations. By 2009, Tides allocated $75 million per year in donor money, most of which went to fund progressive political causes.

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. The Tides website lists 130 current grantees.

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.


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