Thanks to our donors and partners, Tides Foundation and Tides Center moved $325M+ in 2025 — defending democracy, advancing justice, and fueling community-led solutions rooted in care, courage, and connection. Explore how our community’s giving was distributed across movements in 2025.

After a trip to the U.S.-Mexico border in 2019, Alex Rojas, Tides' Director of Philanthropic Services, saw both the harm of disinformation and the hope found in human connection. Read Alex’s reflection on the Tides blog: https://bit.ly/3X6KCVE

The Immigrants Belong Fund and @defineamerican.bsky.social are amplifying immigrant voices and driving real change. Experience how storytelling sparks hope and justice—read our latest blog --> bit.ly/4oFKfxq

#ElectionDay is a reminder that democracy needs you to GET OFF YOUR ASSETS. Voter access is under threat from new laws and disinformation, but your action can make a difference. Join Tides’ Healthy Democracy Fund. Read our blog to learn more: http://bit.ly/43C91G7

This giving season, support a future where LGBTQ+ people thrive. Join Tides in breaking barriers—read our latest blog to see how your support makes change possible: http://bit.ly/43C91G7 #GetOffYourAssets

Immigrants face barriers that harm their rights and dignity. Tides’ I-Belong Fund is fueling a narrative movement to rebuild compassion and belonging. Read more on the Tides blog: http://bit.ly/43C91G7

Extreme weather and pollution hit frontline communities hardest — but they also lead the solutions. Through WE LEAD and the Frontline Justice Fund, Tides backs communities driving climate justice solutions. Get off your assets and fund change. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3KY7gwG

Communities need you to get off your assets. Rising costs and funding shortages are pushing basic needs further out of reach, with 85% of nonprofits expecting higher demand. It’s time to move money out of your DAF—and add more to it—to meet this moment.

LGBTQ+ advocates give their all every day to support LGBTQ+ youth. Funders need to do the same — not just during Pride, but every month of the year. Here are 11 groups to get you started.

If you want to support nonprofits in meeting the challenges of the current moment, fund staff wellness. This is hard work.

We're so honoured to be supported by Cyndi Lauper's 'Girls Just Want To Have Fundamental Rights' Foundation! Thank you so much Cyndi and @tidescommunity.bsky.social for supporting reproductive choice around the world 💙

I’m proud to join the great Cyndi Lauper in the fight for women’s rights & healthcare. Go to www.bonfire.com/girlswantrights2025 to get a shirt and learn more about the #GirlsJustWantToHaveFundamentalRights Fund. @tidescommunity.bsky.social

Cyndi Lauper's Girls Just Want To Have Fundamental Rights fund at Tides Foundation has announced its second round of grants to support organizations addressing issues impacting the lives of women and girls around the world. Learn more and get involved: www.cyndilauper.com/fund

"We believe that anybody who rises to the level of committing a crime has already had hundreds of crimes committed against them."

Tides joins 200+ philanthropic leaders in the #UniteInAdvance campaign to defend the freedom to give. As threats to nonprofits grow, we unite to protect our rights and communities. Learn more: nonprofitquarterly.org/unite-in-adv...

"Ultimately, whether you are trans or not, trans BIPOC leaders are fighting for you." This #TransDayofVisibility, read our interview with Gabriel Foster on funding a trans justice movement. #TDOV

Carolina Jews for Justice's organizing lessons for 2025: 👉 Connect across shared values. 👉 Build interfaith partnerships. 👉 If another group is better positioned to lead on an issue, support them. 👉 Don't let fear keep you from showing up. 👉 Feed your neighbors.

If you have money to give to those in need, now is the time to give it.

Spoiler: Starting a nonprofit isn't the only way to drive social change.

"We need to see who’s closest to the work and identify how we can shift power and resources to them." Don't miss this conversation with Tides' Christian Friend, Ph.D., about how philanthropy can partner with HBCUs to increase the impact of our work.

We remain committed to supporting the LGBTQ+ community, and we are not alone. We look forward to continuing this important work unimpeded.

It's not just about who you include — it's about HOW people are included.

Tides Foundation's Crisis Response Fund is sending nearly $600K to the Black LA Relief and Recovery Fund, 805 UndocuFund, Open Air Worker Emergency Fund and more, with a 2nd round of grants later this year when other sources of support will have dried up. Together, we will take care of each other.

On this day in 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which led to the incarceration of 122,000 Japanese Americans. Nearly 70,000 were US citizens. We remember the tragedies of the past and recommit to fighting for justice in the present. Nidoto Nai Yoni: Let it not happen again.

Philanthropy needs to lean into love: ➡️ Talk about the communities you support the way you talk about your loved ones. Focus on strengths. ➡️ Stand up for what's right. Don't let fear drive your decisions. ➡️ Let the act of listening change you.

Social justice work is hard. Preventing burnout helps organizations keep running. Funders: Want to make sustained impact possible? Invest in the entire organization — including its people and their wellness needs.

This Black History Month, invest in Black futures by funding community-led health efforts to ensure that Black communities live longer, healthier, and thriving lives.

Five ways funders can maximize their impact right now: ➡️ Prioritize multi-year funding ➡️ Provide general operating grants ➡️ Maximize your annual DAF payout ➡️ Include community voices ➡️ Invest in systemic change

@weareallout.bsky.social is on Bluesky! Follow & keep informed on LGBTQ+ rights around the world.

Nat’l Council of Nonprofits’ helpful chart of EOs w/impacts on nonprofits -incl DEI; gov grants & contracts; voting/civic engagement; immigration; Census & more (+ other attacks on communities/issues of sector’s concern not listed, but chk back for update www.councilofnonprofits.org/files/media/...

There’s a lot we still don’t know about last night’s illegal and catastrophic order to freeze federal assistance. Here’s what we do know: It’s a disaster for nonprofits and the communities they serve.

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a time to remember the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and the millions of other victims of Nazi persecution. Ask yourself: what are you doing to stand against antisemitism today?

The third-largest retailer in the world just refused to back away from their DEI initiatives because DEI is good for business. 98% of their shareholders agreed.

Photos from It's Bigger Than Us in Los Angeles, where over 1,800 volunteers have showed up to help distribute supplies since the LA wildfires first started. A new fire is burning now. Read our guide to LA wildfire relief: www.tides.org/blog/how-to-...

Ending Pandemics is a fiscally sponsored project of Tides Center doing incredible work to prevent pandemics. This research they funded is so important.

Remembering Cecile Richards today. She dedicated her life to advancing reproductive justice, and we're going to honor her legacy by not giving up. Rest in power.

The California Black Freedom Fund & California Community Foundation have launched the Black LA Relief & Recovery Fund to support community organizations on the ground working to meet the immediate and long-term needs of Black communities displaced by the wildfires. Give here: www.pledge.to/BlackLA

Faced with new challenges, our love — strategic, transformative, unapologetic — prevails. Read this New Year's message from Tides CEO Janiece Evans-Page.

ICYMI: Here's our list of where to donate during the California wildfires, including mutual aid efforts, groups focused on providing aid to people who are undocumented or unhoused, and more: www.tides.org/blog/how-to-...

This can't be said enough. Everything matters.

Here's where to donate to help those affected by the California wildfires.

Climate disasters are not "equalizers." They make inequality worse.

Proud to be a part of this: $63,000 in microgrants will be distributed to 63 Black-owned businesses in Oakland.

If you need to feel inspired on a January Monday, read this. Heroes are all around us. What are you doing to stand up for immigrant rights?

So many new followers! Hello — here's a recap of some of the wins that kept us going in 2024. We're glad to have you with us in 2025.

It's not idealistic to think that sharing stories about our common humanity can fight hateful rhetoric. It's backed by research.

Hugely important resource: Immigrants Belong, a collaboration between Define American and Tides Foundation, has released a toolkit with research-backed strategies to fight anti-immigrant lies online. If you're an organization or creator who wants to stand up for immigrant rights, you need this.

Earlier this year, we talked to a leader in the environmental justice movement who explained how her org balanced long struggles with short-term advocacy wins. "We need the wins for momentum," she told us. These are the wins giving us momentum as we prepare for 2025. 🧵

"Politics is personal. That, however, doesn’t mean it’s ideological. It means that one cares about what she or he is doing, what he or she is writing.... Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul." —Nikki Giovanni

This is huge: The Trans Justice Funding Project, a fund at Tides Foundation, is adding 2 more grant cycles to better resource trans liberation. They're launching big changes to make it easier to apply for funding and get funds out faster. Proud to partner with TJFP as they meet this moment.