The Tioga Fund is a left-leaning lobbying and advocacy organization that engages on climate change, left-progressive women’s issues, electoral process issues, and civil liberties. It has been identified as working with the Democracy Alliance¹ and has supported ballot-measure campaigns for paid sick leave mandates. ²

Advocacy

The organization provides legal support for various causes. One of the largest focuses for the New York-based organization has been providing funding for paid sick leave mandate campaigns throughout the United States. ³ The organization has been involved in promoting paid sick leave mandate ballot initiatives that passed in Massachusetts and New Jersey. ⁴ In 2016, it funded Organizers in the Land of Enchantment to support leave mandates in New Mexico. ⁵

The organization has also worked with the Center for American Progress Action Fund on strategy summits for paid leave and equal pay regulations. ⁶

Funding Priorities

The fund was identified as working with the Democracy Alliance in a 2017 report. ⁷ The group has provided funding to the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a well connected left-of-center lobbying and advocacy group in the Arabella Advisors network with Democracy Alliance ties. ⁸

The organization’s donation recipients have included $50,000 to A Better Balance, $50,000 to the Center for American Progress Action and $50,000 to the Ultraviolet Action Fund. ⁹

The group has funded a number of left-environmentalist mobilization groups including the League of Conservation Voters,¹⁰ Oil Change USA, and 350 Action, among other groups. ¹¹

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5. Tioga Fund, Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990), 2016, Schedule I
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7. “Beyond Resistance: Reclaiming Our Progressive Future.” Democracy Alliance. November 15-18, 2017. Accessed May 10, 2020. https://www.scribd.com/document/364798053/Soros-Democracy-Alliance-Leak-pdf
8. Sixteen Thirty Fund, Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax, 2016, Schedule B, Part VII, Section B.
9. Tioga Fund. Great Nonprofits. Accessed May 10, 2020. https://greatnonprofits.org/org/tioga-fund-inc
10. Tioga Fund, Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990), 2016, Schedule I
11. Tioga Fund, Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990), 2018, Schedule I