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Tides Foundation & Tides Center
P.O. Box 29907, Building 1014, San Francisco, CA 94129
Phone 415 561-6300 | Fax 415-561-6301 | Email info@tides.org



Financials


Finances

for tax year ending 12/31/2003

Income$60,306,567.00 
Expenditures$59,393,547.00 
End-Of-Year Net Worth$145,459,750.00 
Tax Status501(c)3 

Selected Grants

John Merck Fund
Grant$245,000.00 in 1999
SourceThe Foundation Center
DetailsFor continued support for Environmental Media Service's programs regarding genetically engineered foods and Environmental Working Group's media campaign for Internet site about pesticides in the American diet
Albert A. List Foundation
Grant$9,000.00 in 1998
SourceIRS Form 990 or 990-PF
DetailsActivist Training. Vallecitos Mountain Refuge
Glaser Progress Foundation
Grant$25,000.00 in 2003
SourceDonor's Website
DetailsFor Adbusters magazine
John Merck Fund
Grant$180,000.00 in 2003
SourceIRS Form 990 or 990-PF
DetailsTo support (1) Clean Production Action; (2) Environmental Health Strategy Center; (3) Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice; the Mercury Policy Project.
Pew Charitable Trusts
Grant$90,000.00 in 2002
SourceIRS Form 990 or 990-PF
DetailsTo assess and publicize the risks and impacts of salmon farming in British Columbia on the environment and to eliminate or curtail the indiscriminate slaughter of seals and sea lions by salmon farmers

Top Funders and Grantees

Funding From Foundations
& Corporations

Total Donated

Time Frame
California Endowment $194,563,305.00 1997 – 2006
Pew Charitable Trusts $140,465,400.00 1990 – 2005
Ford Foundation $71,316,439.00 1989 – 2006
Open Society Institute $23,988,039.00 1997 – 2005
William & Flora Hewlett Foundation $16,247,140.00 1990 – 2005
David & Lucile Packard Foundation $14,703,359.00 1988 – 2005
Heinz Endowments $10,424,500.00 1995 – 2005
W.K. Kellogg Foundation $10,410,772.00 1991 – 2006
Richard King Mellon Foundation $9,969,500.00 1995 – 2005
James Irvine Foundation $8,836,000.00 1993 – 2004
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation $8,455,416.00 1990 – 2005
John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation $7,052,969.00 1990 – 2004
Blue Moon Fund $6,919,638.00 1988 – 2002
Lannan Foundation $6,622,000.00 1997 – 2004
Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund $6,063,000.00 1991 – 2004
Nathan Cummings Foundation $5,884,095.00 1991 – 2005
Schumann Center for Media & Democracy $5,407,500.00 1992 – 1998
Rockefeller Foundation $4,543,775.00 1993 – 2005
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency $3,262,095.00 1993 – 2001
Endswell Foundation $3,260,669.00 2000 – 2005
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Funding From Other
Activist Groups

Total Donated

Time Frame
Center for Ecoliteracy
$25,000.00 2000 – 2003
Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
$7,500.00 2001 – 2001
Western Organization of Resource Councils
$6,000.00 1999 – 1999
Trees Foundation
$5,050.00 2002 – 2002


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