What does Tides Foundation do?
Tides Foundation is a donor advised grantmaking institution. It is a public charity founded in 1976 and is not an endowed foundation. Its mission is to actively promote change toward broadly shared economic opportunity, robust democratic processes and the opportunity to live in a healthy and sustainable environment where human rights are preserved and protected. Tides Foundation granted $101 million in 2009. Tides Foundation clients are philanthropists who are working to confront an array of issues such as global warming, AIDS treatment and prevention, economic disparity, workers rights, and much more.
