Editing Tides Foundation (section)

== Donations ==
Organizations that began as projects of Tides include [[Campaign to Defend the Constitution]], [[Higher Education Recruitment Consortium]], [[People for the American Way]], [[Pew Research Center|Pew Internet and American Life Project]], [[Rockridge Institute]], [[Social Venture Network]], Urgent Action Fund, and [[V-Day (movement)|V-Day]].<ref>{{cite web|title=History|work=Tides |url=http://www.tides.org/about/history/|access-date=22 February 2015}}</ref> The Tides website lists 130 current grantees.<ref>{{cite web|title=Project Directory|url=http://www.tides.org/community/project-directory/|publisher=Tides|access-date=22 February 2015}}</ref> As Tides is a public charity, it allows sponsors to donate money to different organizations—including for-profit as well as nonprofit entities—through donor-advised funds.{{sfn|Kellow|2007|p=144}} Donor-advised funds are funds held in accounts by nonprofit organizations, like Tides, that then make grants to third-party entities on the donor's behalf.<ref>{{cite news |title=A philanthropic boom: "donor-advised funds" |url=https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21719494-rise-dafs-may-be-much-about-tax-charity-philanthropic-boom |newspaper=[[The Economist]] |date=March 23, 2017 |access-date=June 14, 2017}}</ref> Organizations that have partnered with Tides to set up these funds include [[Girl Rising]] and the [[Humble Bundle]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://girlrising.com/faq/girl-rising-fund/|title=What is the Girl Rising Fund?|publisher=Girl Rising|year=2017|access-date=2017-06-24}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://support.humblebundle.com/hc/en-us/articles/205501708-Humble-Bundle-Giving-Fund-at-Tides-Foundation|title=Humble Bundle Giving Fund at Tides Foundation|publisher=Humble Support|access-date=October 20, 2017}}</ref>

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.{{sfn|Anheier|Leat|2006|p=57}}

Tides has received at least $3.5 million from liberal financier and political activist [[George Soros]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Egan|first1=Mark|last2=Nichols|first2=Michelle|title=Soros: not a funder of Wall Street protests |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wallstreet-protests-funding/soros-not-a-funder-of-wall-street-protests-idUSTRE79D01Q20111014 |publisher=Reuters |date=October 14, 2011|access-date=October 20, 2019}}</ref>

From 2003 to 2012, Tides gave around $4.4 million to media advocacy organization [[Media Matters for America]].{{citation needed|date=October 2019}} It has stated that it supports the Occupy Wall Street movement. The CEO of Tides, Melissa L. Bradley, stated in a blog post in October 2011 that the movement "represents the best of American ideals and ingenuity."<ref>{{cite web |title=Why We Support the #OccupyWallStreet Movement |url=http://blog.tides.org/2011/10/12/why-we-support-the-occupywallstreet-movement/ |first=Melissa L. |last=Bradley |work=What’s Possible: The Tides Blog |publisher=Tides |date=October 12, 2011}}</ref>

In 2023, the ''[[Washington Examiner]]'', a U.S. [[Conservatism in the United States|conservative]] news outlet, reported that the Tides Foundation and its affiliate, the Tides Center, had donated over $1 million to anti-Israel groups behind demonstrations pushing for an [[Gaza–Israel conflict|Israel-Gaza conflict]] ceasefire and downplaying Palestinian terror in the Middle East.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-12-01 |title=Hamas-friendly protest groups bankrolled by Democratic dark money juggernaut Tides |url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/hamas-protests-bankrolled-democratic-dark-money-tides-israel |access-date=2023-12-03 |website=Washington Examiner |language=en}}</ref>