For more information, see Tides Nexus
The Tides Center is a left-of-center nonprofit created to manage the fiscal sponsorship services of its “sister” organization, the Tides Foundation. Both groups are part of the Tides Nexus of pass-through and fiscal sponsorship nonprofits based in San Francisco, California. Tuti Scott is the CEO of Tides, a position she has held since approximately September 2019. 1
The Tides Nexus (a blanket term covering all associated groups) has since grown to incorporate eight nonprofits, including various supporting entities, investment management nonprofits, a 501(c)(4) advocacy group, and a single controlling organization (the Tides Network).
Overview
The Tides Foundation pioneered “fiscal sponsorship” (or “incubation”), a process in which a sponsor organization is paid to act as an umbrella under which new center-left political groups may fundraise and operate prior to achieving recognition of tax-exempt status from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), at which point they’re often spun off into standalone nonprofits. In 1996, Tides passed its fiscal sponsorship services to a separate nonprofit, the Tides Center.
The Tides Center serves as a “legal firewall insulating the Tides Foundation from potential lawsuits” filed by those potentially harmed by Tides Foundation-funded projects and assists in the organization and creation of new left-of-center political advocacy organizations. 2 The Tides Center offers an array of services to help organizations from their inception onward, including helping organizations to find office space, run a new office, apply for grants, conduct public relations, handle personnel, complete payroll, budget, manage contracts, face legal challenges, and comply with government regulations. 34
Fiscal Sponsorship (Incubation)
The Tides Center operates as an umbrella group providing 501(c)(3) status to groups who cannot or prefer not to apply for charitable status themselves, often while they await recognition of tax exemption from the IRS (a process called “fiscal sponsorship” or “incubation”). Groups under the Tides Center umbrella inherit the tax-exempt charitable status from Tides, allowing them to accept tax-deductible contributions without an IRS. 5
The Tides Center has been described as an organization that “washes” away the paper trail between its grants and the original donor.6 Tides Founder Drummond Pike stated, “Anonymity is very important to most of the people we work with.” 7 Tides’ funding model allows donors to fund newly created projects anonymously through Tides and with the advantages of Tides being a nonprofit prior to the project receiving tax exempt status.
Tides Center Projects
The Tides Center has incubated numerous left-wing organizations since its inception. Some remain fiscal projects of the Tides Center (unincorporated organizations maintained by Tides); others have since become independent nonprofits. According to the right-of-center website Discover the Networks, between 1996 and 2010, “the Tides Center served as a fiscal sponsor to some 677 separate projects with combined revenues of $522.4 million; in 2010 alone, the Center was actively managing nearly 200 projects.”8
The Alliance for Safety and Justice and Californians for Safety and Justice are current projects (as of July 2020) of the Tides Center focused on criminal justice reform in the U.S. and California, respectively. 9 10 A close affiliate, the Alliance for Safety and Justice Action Fund, is a 501(c)(4) project of Tides Advocacy (a Tides Foundation affiliate; formerly The Advocacy Fund). 11
The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, one of the lead organizations in the left-of-center Black Lives Matter and led by self-described “trained Marxists,” is one of the better known groups that operates under the Tides Center’s umbrella. 12 The Global Network Foundation began in 2016 as a project for the center-left fiscal sponsor Thousand Currents and was officially transferred to the Tides Center in July 2020. 13 Thousand Currents’ board included Susan Rosenberg, a convicted member of the May 19th Communist Organization responsible for multiple bombings in the 1980s. 14
The Arab Resources and Organizing Center (AROC) is a Palestinian Advocacy group and a financial project of the Tides Center. According to the Washington Free Beacon, AROC is “incubated” at Tides Center. In October 2023, AROC organized anti-Israeli protests and walk-outs of students within the California Bay Area, whose attendants shouted, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” 15
Past organizations incubated by the Tides Center include:
Environmental Working Group 16
Environmental Media Services 17
Natural Resources Defense Council 18
Trade Research Consortium 19
People for the American Way 20
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations 23
Center for Social Inclusion 24
Apollo Alliance (now the BlueGreen Alliance) 25
Leadership
Drummond Pike
Drummond Pike is the co-founder of the Tides Nexus of groups, although he has since retired from the organizations. A veteran political activist, Pike began his career in 1970 as associate director for the now-defunct Youth Project in Washington, D.C., a group formed to give young people with inherited wealth a way to channel donations. 26
While Pike did not develop donor-advised funds himself (DAFs have been used by community foundations since the early 20th century), the Youth Project’s model of guiding funding from individual donors to nonprofit political causes reportedly inspired the creation of the Tides Foundation in 1976, which utilized DAFs to encourage individuals to donate to Tides since they would hold an advisory role in its grantmaking. 27 Funding for the project came from Jane Lehman, heiress to the fortune generated by the Reynolds tobacco conglomerate and an ex-president of the center-left Arca Foundation. In 1979, Pike extended Tides’ services to incubating new liberal nonprofits (or “projects”), a system known as fiscal sponsorship. 28
In 2018, Pike wrote in the Chronicle of Philanthropy that he and some Tides colleagues “should share some of the blame” for the rapid growth in so-called commercial DAF providers, which are held by 501(c)(3) public charities associated with for-profit investment firms such as Charles Schwab and Fidelity Investments. He goes on to say, “We borrowed a sleepy device [DAFs] deployed by community foundations to attract donors,” normalizing that model with the IRS and laying the groundwork for other DAF-based organizations. Pike adds, “DAFs should be treated with rules mirroring those applied to private foundations: donor disclosure, the same limits on deductions for gifts of stock, and minimum annual payouts calculated on a fund-by-fund basis.”29 30
Pike resigned his leadership of the Tides organizations in 2010. He has been a board member for numerous left-progressive organizations outside of the Tides Nexus, including the Democracy Alliance, Enlyst Fund, JK Irwin Foundation, Underdog Foundation, Island Press, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Environmental Working Group, Endswell Foundation, Working Assets, Network for Good, Sage Centre, Threshold Foundation, and Charity Projects Entertainment Fund, Groundspring, Social Venture Network, Sierra Fund, and America’s Charities. 31
CEO
Janiece Evans-Page is the CEO of Tides as of 2024. 32
Tuti Scott was previously the Interim CEO of Tides, a position she held from approximately September 2019 through 2020 when Janiece Evans-Page was selected. 33 34
Kriss Deiglmeier was CEO of Tides from 2014 to late 2019, when she retired from the organization. 35
Funding
Financial Overview
In 2022, the Tides Center reported a revenue of $281,474,772, expenses of $415,897,054, and total assets of $431,562,198. 36
In 2021, the Tides Center reported a revenue of $516,573,844, expenses of $233,163,253, and total assets of $538,607,810. 37
In 2020, the Tides Center reported a revenue of $268,746,677, expenses of $197,459,360, and total assets of $240,098,427. 38
In 2019, the Tides Center reported a revenue of $200,415,091, expenses of $155,533,057, and total assets of $166,214,850. 39
In 2018, the Tides Center reported total revenues of $150 million ($137 million of which came from grants to the group), $137 million in total expenses (including $28 million in grants paid to other groups), and net assets of $102 million. 40
From 2005 to 2007 alone the Tides Center made 345 grants worth $25.3 million. 41
Donors to Tides Center
According to 2018 tax filings, the Tides Center received over $19 million in government grants.42 According to USASpending.gov as of August 2020, it has received $33 million from the federal government since fiscal year 2008, with at least $24.9 million of that having been awarded since fiscal year 2016.43 Major sources of federal funding include the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The Tides Center also counts major left-of-center foundations as donors, including the W.K. Kellogg Foundation,44 the Ford Foundation,45 the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,46 and George Soros’s Open Society Foundations. 47
In 2019, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) donated $7,517,000 to the Tides Foundation and another $6,860,066 to the Tides Center. 48
In June 2021, the Emmerson Collective, a private grantmaking foundation, donated roughly $1 million to the Tides Center on behalf of California Governor Gavin Newsom. One month later, according to campaign finance records, in July 2021, the Collective donated an additional $30,000 to the Tides Center. 49
Grants from Tides Center
In 2019, the Tides Center paid out $16.7 million in grants to other, largely left-of-center, nonprofits: 50
| Grant Recipient | Amount | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Tides Foundation | $3,496,826 | 2019 |
| Fund for the City of New York | $850,000 | 2019 |
| Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability | $713,140 | 2019 |
| Homeless Youth Alliance | $505,582 | 2019 |
| Fair Work Center | $399,020 | 2019 |
| Reinvent Stockton Foundation | $392,987 | 2019 |
| Rocky Mountain Wolf Project Action Fund | $333,650 | 2019 |
| Child Welfare Innovation Incorporated | $300,000 | 2019 |
| The New America Foundation | $262,000 | 2019 |
| New Venture Fund | $250,000 | 2019 |
| Smithsonian Institution | $250,000 | 2019 |
| AI4All | $240,635 | 2019 |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | $230,000 | 2019 |
| National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum | $215,378 | 2019 |
| Proteus Fund | $200,000 | 2019 |
| A New Way of Life Reentry Project | $182,000 | 2019 |
| The Reverence Project | $180,000 | 2019 |
| California Budget and Policy Center | $150,000 | 2019 |
| California Charter Schools Association | $150,000 | 2019 |
| South Central Family Health Center | $150,000 | 2019 |
| Community Bonds | $123,281 | 2019 |
| Lift Up Contra Costa Action | $121,250 | 2019 |
| Community Foundation of San Joaquin | $114,100 | 2019 |
| The Global Development Incubator | $107,679 | 2019 |
| Alameda Health System Foundation | $100,000 | 2019 |
| Alex's Health System Foundation | $100,000 | 2019 |
| Alliance Medical Center | $100,000 | 2019 |
| Bartz-Altadonna Community Health Center | $100,000 | 2019 |
| County of Santa Cruz Health Services Agency | $100,000 | 2019 |
| Family Health Centers of San Diego | $100,000 | 2019 |
| Korean Community Services | $100,000 | 2019 |
| Livingston Community Health | $100,000 | 2019 |
| Los Angeles County Department of Health Services | $100,000 | 2019 |
| Mission City Community Network | $100,000 | 2019 |
| Neighborhood Healthcare | $100,000 | 2019 |
| St. John's Well Child and Family Center | $100,000 | 2019 |
| The Children's Clinic, Serving Children and Their Families | $100,000 | 2019 |
| West County Health Centers | $100,000 | 2019 |
| Center for Community Research | $75,000 | 2019 |
| Community Works West | $75,000 | 2019 |
| Health Improvement Partnership of Santa Cruz County | $75,000 | 2019 |
| Open Door Community Health Centers | $75,000 | 2019 |
| San Benito County Public Health Services | $75,000 | 2019 |
| Faith in Action Network | $71,200 | 2019 |
| Media Mobilizing Project | $67,026 | 2019 |
| The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | $65,000 | 2019 |
| Alliance for Global Justice | $63,305 | 2019 |
| Spark Reproductive Justice Now | $60,225 | 2019 |
| Community Foundation of Snohoish County | $60,177 | 2019 |
| SisterReach | $60,034 | 2019 |
| Families for Justice as Healing | $60,000 | 2019 |
| Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities | $55,516 | 2019 |
| National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health | $55,000 | 2019 |
| SisterLove | $55,000 | 2019 |
| Chinese Progressive Association | $54,543 | 2019 |
| Movement Strategy Center | $52,500 | 2019 |
| Alameda County Behavioral Healthcare | $50,000 | 2019 |
| Asian Health Services | $50,000 | 2019 |
| Axis Community Health | $50,000 | 2019 |
| Behavioral Health Services | $50,000 | 2019 |
| Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice | $50,000 | 2019 |
| Chapa-De Indian Health Program | $50,000 | 2019 |
| Clinica MSR. Oscar A. Romero | $50,000 | 2019 |
| Community Health Centers of the Central Coast | $50,000 | 2019 |
| El Dorado County Community Health Center | $50,000 | 2019 |
| Family Health Care Centers of Greater Los Angeles | $50,000 | 2019 |
| Fresno New Connection | $50,000 | 2019 |
| Golden Valley Health Center | $50,000 | 2019 |
| Hill Country Community Clinic | $50,000 | 2019 |
| JWCH Institute | $50,000 | 2019 |
| Korean Health Education Information Research Center | $50,000 | 2019 |
| La Clinica de la Raza | $50,000 | 2019 |
| Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor UCLA Medical Center | $50,000 | 2019 |
| Los Angeles Centers for Alcohol and Drug Abuse | $50,000 | 2019 |
| Marin City Health and Wellness Center | $50,000 | 2019 |
| MLK Health and Wellness Community Development Corporation | $50,000 | 2019 |
| Mountain Valleys Health Centers | $50,000 | 2019 |
| NC Community Bail Fund of Durham | $50,000 | 2019 |
| Northeast Valley Health Corporation | $50,000 | 2019 |
| Northern Inyo Healthcare District | $50,000 | 2019 |
| Olive View-UCLA Education and Research Institute | $50,000 | 2019 |
| Pinky Swear Foundation | $50,000 | 2019 |
| Plumas Health Care Foundation | $50,000 | 2019 |
| Reedley Community Hospital | $50,000 | 2019 |
| Salud Para La Gente | $50,000 | 2019 |
| Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics | $50,000 | 2019 |
| Santa Ynez Tribal Health Clinic | $50,000 | 2019 |
| School Health Clinics of Santa Clara County | $50,000 | 2019 |
| Sonoma County Indian Health Project | $50,000 | 2019 |
| St Vincent de Paul Village | $50,000 | 2019 |
| The Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions | $50,000 | 2019 |
| Tri-City Health Center | $50,000 | 2019 |
| University of California | $50,000 | 2019 |
| Valey Health Associates | $50,000 | 2019 |
| United Charitable | $49,875 | 2019 |
| American Association of State Colleges and Universities | $45,000 | 2019 |
| Community Labor United | $45,000 | 2019 |
| Gulf Coast Center for Law and Policy | $45,000 | 2019 |
| Mobile Environmental Justice | $45,000 | 2019 |
| Native Organizers Alliance | $45,000 | 2019 |
| United Way of Greater Atlanta | $45,000 | 2019 |
| Episcopal City Mission | $41,491 | 2019 |
| Engage San Diego | $40,000 | 2019 |
| Power California | $40,000 | 2019 |
| Access Reproductive Care | $35,000 | 2019 |
| Feminist Women's Health Center | $35,000 | 2019 |
| Learning Policy Institute | $35,000 | 2019 |
| Springboard to Opportunities | $32,500 | 2019 |
| Healthy and Free Tennessee | $32,362 | 2019 |
| Memphis Center for Reproductive Health | $32,362 | 2019 |
| Women Engaged | $30,113 | 2019 |
| Center for the Study of Child Care Employment | $30,000 | 2019 |
| Ex-Offender Fellowship Network | $30,000 | 2019 |
| Jamaa Birth Village | $30,000 | 2019 |
| Momsrising Education Fund | $30,000 | 2019 |
| Community Capacity Development | $29,000 | 2019 |
| Habesha | $29,000 | 2019 |
| Sankofa Farms | $29,000 | 2019 |
| The Boulevard Church | $29,000 | 2019 |
| The Chicago Leadership Alliance | $29,000 | 2019 |
| Village of Wisdom | $29,000 | 2019 |
| Eastern Iowa Community Bond Project | $28,000 | 2019 |
| Positive Women's Network USA | $27,500 | 2019 |
| Women's Law Project | $25,500 | 2019 |
| Accounting for Your Future | $25,000 | 2019 |
| Carolina youth Action Project | $25,000 | 2019 |
| Global Communities of Hope | $25,000 | 2019 |
| GVNGORG | $25,000 | 2019 |
| Holler Health Justice | $25,000 | 2019 |
| Indigenous Visision | $25,000 | 2019 |
| Restoreher USAmerica | $25,000 | 2019 |
| Spirithouse | $25,000 | 2019 |
| FII - National | $24,500 | 2019 |
| Boreal Songbird Initiative | $24,423 | 2019 |
| American Friends Service Committee | $24,400 | 2019 |
| Regents of the University of California Irvine | $20,240 | 2019 |
| Black Phoenix Organizing Collective | $20,000 | 2019 |
| Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency | $20,000 | 2019 |
| Charitable Ventures of Orange County | $20,000 | 2019 |
| Communities in Schools of San Fernando Valley and Greater Los Angeles | $20,000 | 2019 |
| Escondido Union High School District | $20,000 | 2019 |
| Fairfax County Public Schools | $20,000 | 2019 |
| Faith in the Valley | $20,000 | 2019 |
| Homeboy Industries | $20,000 | 2019 |
| Inland Congregations United for Change Sponsoring Committee | $20,000 | 2019 |
| Leadership Public Schools | $20,000 | 2019 |
| New Hampshire Learning Initiative | $20,000 | 2019 |
| Pillars of the Community | $20,000 | 2019 |
| Santa Fe Dreamers Project | $20,000 | 2019 |
| Scoial Good Fund | $20,000 | 2019 |
| The Colorado Education Initiative | $20,000 | 2019 |
| The Kohala Center | $20,000 | 2019 |
| Two Rivers Public Charter School | $20,000 | 2019 |
| Judson Memorial Church | $19,500 | 2019 |
| Equal Rights Advocates | $19,186 | 2019 |
| Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice | $18,500 | 2019 |
| La Colectiva | $18,500 | 2019 |
| Mano Amiga | $18,500 | 2019 |
| Immersion for Spanish Language Acquisition | $18,490 | 2019 |
| Freedom for Immigrants | $17,703 | 2019 |
| Adelante Alabama Worker Center | $15,000 | 2019 |
| Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University | $15,000 | 2019 |
| Central Arkansas Harm Reduction Project | $15,000 | 2019 |
| Charleston County School District | $15,000 | 2019 |
| Joy Like a River United Church of Christ | $15,000 | 2019 |
| Knoxville Abortion Doula Collective | $15,000 | 2019 |
| Los Angeles Unified School District | $15,000 | 2019 |
| Mississippi Action for Community Education | $15,000 | 2019 |
| Oakland Unified School District | $15,000 | 2019 |
| Open Buffalo | $15,000 | 2019 |
| Reproductive Justice Action Collective | $15,000 | 2019 |
| San Francisco Unified School District | $15,000 | 2019 |
| Shelby County Public Schools | $15,000 | 2019 |
| Small Schools for Equity | $15,000 | 2019 |
| United Friends of the Children | $15,000 | 2019 |
| University of Arkansas | $15,000 | 2019 |
| Wake County Public School System | $15,000 | 2019 |
| Belchertown Public Schools | $14,924 | 2019 |
| Institute of Art Therapy | $14,790 | 2019 |
| Town of Wesport | $13,040 | 2019 |
| Transplanting Traditions Community Farm | $12,220 | 2019 |
| Grassroots Leadership Inc | $12,000 | 2019 |
| Fang Collective | $10,000 | 2019 |
| New Sancuary Coalition | $10,000 | 2019 |
| Proyecto Azteca | $10,000 | 2019 |
| Queer Detainee Empowerment Project | $10,000 | 2019 |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of Pittsburgh and Morgantown | $10,000 | 2019 |
| Texas Equal Access Fund | $10,000 | 2019 |
| The Liberation House: KBCAN | $10,000 | 2019 |
| Chicago Community Bond Fund | $9,500 | 2019 |
| Massachusetts Bail Fund | $9,500 | 2019 |
| Community Success Initiative | $8,252 | 2019 |
| Arriba Las Vegas Worker Center | $7,500 | 2019 |
| Carolina Federation | $7,500 | 2019 |
| Digital Harbor Foundation | $7,500 | 2019 |
| Highlander Research and Education Center | $7,500 | 2019 |
| Louisiana Rise | $7,500 | 2019 |
| Native Movement | $7,500 | 2019 |
| Tree of Life Congregation | $7,025 | 2019 |
| Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Twin Cities | $7,000 | 2019 |
| Minnesota Freedom Fund | $6,105 | 2019 |
| Philadelphia Bail Fund | $6,083 | 2019 |
| WhyHunger | $6,000 | 2019 |
| Freedom Fund Network | $5,872 | 2019 |
| Northwest Community Bail Fund | $5,506 | 2019 |
| Cville Immigrant Bond Fund | $5,088 | 2019 |
| Total: | $16,697,604 |
Financial Documents
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