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Overview

Advancing Girls Fund

The Advancing Girls Fund is a Tides Foundation initiative that powers grantmaking for adolescent girls and young women of color and their allies, investing in spaces where they can learn, play, dream, and become powerful movement leaders.

Inspire Girls to Become Changemakers

In the gender justice movement, few philanthropic dollars center on girls and young women of color and their allies.

Girl-Led

Tides’ Advancing Girls Fund delivers equitable grantmaking for girls and young women of color and their allies by engaging their perspectives on resource distribution and programmatic investments.

Intersectional Grantmaking

Adolescent girls and young women of color live at the intersection of multiple identities and social issues. Any solutions to support their health and well-being must also work at those intersections, which is why Tides reaches across geographies, environments, and cultures to build capacity and power.

Gender Inclusive

Tides’ Advancing Girls Fund defines girls as young people around the ages of 11–25 who identify as girls, as well as non-binary and gender-expansive youth.

Systems and Services

Tides invest in systems and services in parallel to support adolescent girls, young women of color, and their allies while they participate in long-term efforts to disrupt systems that create racial, gender, and socioeconomic disparities.

Multiyear Grantmaking

Aligned donors pool their funds to power intentional grantmaking for girls of color and their allies, investing in their leadership, health, and well-being. While grants are currently annual, as the fund matures, our intent is to emphasize multiyear, general operating grants to organizations, programs, and strategies.

Eligibility

_You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website._

What Tides Foundation actually gave

Source: IRS Form 990 filing, 2024

Grants in 2024
2,110
Total given
$382.1M
Median grant
$50K
Range
$5,067–$28.16M
  • By dollars: California 26%, New York 17%, District of Columbia 10%. Top recipient cities: Washington, DC; New York, NY; San Francisco, CA.
  • 0% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
  • 34% of recipients were new grantees, not repeat recipients.

Example grants

  • Tides Advocacy · San Francisco, CA

    Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment

    $28.16M

  • State Democracy Project · Brooklyn, NY

    Equity, human rights, and economic empowerment

    $20.28M

  • Tides Center · San Francisco, CA

    Healthy individuals and communities

    $9.58M

  • Impactassets Inc · Bethesda, MD

    Healthy individuals and communities

    $8.29M

  • Academy for the Love of Learning Inc · Santa Fe, NM

    Quality education

    $5M

IRS Form 990 filing, 2024. Amounts as reported by the funder. Full 990 history →

Focus Areas & Funding Uses

Fields of Work

  • Youth programs
  • Youth leadership
  • Women
  • BIPOC
  • Social justice
  • Diversity

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