Activity

• The Tides Network contains five separate legal entities: Tides Center, Tides Advocacy, Tides Foundation, Tides Two Rivers Fund, and Tides Inc.
• The Tides Network serves as the “parent organization,” supporting the organizations “through executive leadership, staffing resources, financial management, legal and risk compliance, communications, and administrative services.”
• Since 1976, Tides has “scaled more than 1400 social ventures, fueled social change in 120+ countries, and mobilized over $3 billion for impact.” A number of these social ventures demonize Israel, promote antisemitic rhetoric, and lead BDS campaigns.

Funding        

• In 2023, the Tides Network’s total revenue was $627.3 million; total expenses were $1 billion.
• In 2022-2023, Tides received $17.8 million from the Open Society Foundation.
• In 2020-2023, the Tides Network received $58,340 from the New Israel Fund.
• In 2020-2026, the Tides Center received $2.6 million from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, of which American NGO Palestine Legal received $240,000 (2023-2026) and the Adalah Justice Project received $300,000 (2023-2026).

Tides Center

• The Tides Center was created by the Tides Network to manage fiscal sponsorships for “social change leaders and ventures.” It currently serves as a fiscal sponsor to 90 social ventures and granted $80.5 million in fiscal sponsorships in 2023.
• The Tides Center has provided funding to a number of highly biased and politicized NGOs active in the Arab-Israeli conflict including the Adalah Justice Project, Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC), and Palestine Legal.
  • In 2014, the Israeli NGO Adalah created the “Adalah Justice Project” (AJP), based in Boston, with the goal of transforming“ American perception, policy and practice in Palestine/Israel into a human rights approach that guarantees historical justice and equality for all.” Since its founding, AJP has been highly active in BDS campaigns and legal warfare.
  • Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) held events in support of Rasmea Odeh, referring to her as a “Palestinian American icon.” Rasmea Odeh, a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) operative was convicted for immigration fraud after concealing her role in two terrorist bombings in Israel. The PFLP is designated as a terrorist organization by the US, EU, Canada, and Israel.
  • Palestine Legal is highly active in BDS campaigns, particularly on college and university campuses throughout the United States.
• In June 2021, the Tides Center published an article accusing Israel of “pursuing a form of apartheid,” “ethnic cleansing, and “settler colonialism.”

Tides Foundation

• The Tides Foundation serves as a “grantmaking organization primarily through the management of close to 400 donor advised funds.” In 2023, the Tides Foundation provided $690.3 million in grants to donor advised funds
• The Tides Foundation has provided funding to a number of highly biased and politicized NGOs active in the Arab-Israeli conflict including American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ), Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), CODEPINK, Grassroots International, IfNotNow, Jewish Voice for Peace, National Lawyers Guild, and WESPAC.
  • AFSC is a leader of BDS campaigns on campuses and churches in the United States.
  • Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ) is an American non-profit that acts as a “fiscal sponsor to over 90 economic, social justice and human rights projects around the world that do not have their own tax-exempt status.”According to its website, “Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is a fiscally sponsored project of the Alliance for Global Justice, a 501(c)(3) Organization.”
    • In August 2021, Discover shut down credit card donations to the Alliance for Global Justice after the Zachor Legal Institute pressured the credit card company, citing Alliance for Global Justice’s relationship with Samidoun.
    • Since February 2023, Alliance for Global Justice is unable to accept credit card donations for itself or the 140 groups (including Samidoun) that it fiscally sponsors. This followed several Washington Examiner reports that exposed the links between Samidoun and the PFLP.
  • CCR is active in lawfare suits against Israel and Israeli officials (including Avi Dichter and Moshe Ya’alon); promotes anti-Israel BDS campaigns; urges the U.S. government to stop providing military aid to Israel; presents an entirely biased and distorted view of the conflict and utilizes highly politicized rhetoric, accusing Israel of  “war crimes,” “crimes against humanity,” and other such allegations.
    • In November 2023, CCR filed a lawsuit on behalf of Palestinian NGOs Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCI-P) and Al-Haq, alleging that Israel’s “mass killings,” “widespread and systematic attacks on infrastructure,” and “forced expulsion” amount to “genocide.” The NGOs demanded that the “President of the United States, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of Defense adhere to their duty to prevent, and not further, the unfolding genocide of Palestinian people in Gaza,” as well as “take all measures within their power to prevent Israel’s commission of genocidal acts against the Palestinian people of Gaza.”
    • In January 2024, the Court dismissed the case. In a highly irregular note, the judge added that he believed the “current treatment of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip by the Israeli military may plausibly constitute a genocide” and “implored” the White House to “examine the results of their unflagging support of the military siege against the Palestinians in Gaza.”
    • The NGOs appealed the decision and filed a brief in March 2024. In July 2024, a three-judge panel affirmed the dismissal.
    • In August 2024, the NGOs filed a petition for rehearing en banc, claiming that the courts “have a constitutional duty to assess the legality of the Biden administration’s actions.” In October 2024, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied their petition for rehearing en banc.
  • CODEPINK is a leader of U.S.-based anti-Israel BDS campaigns. CODEPINK’s activities include demonstrations, protests, and disruptions.
    • In November 2023, CODEPINK co-organized a “National March on Washington” to “demand an immediate end to the brutal siege of Gaza and the cessation of all U.S. aid to Israel.”
  • While Grassroots International states that it “stands with the nonviolent Palestinian struggle for self-determination and human rights, particularly the human rights to land, water and food sovereignty,” it provides funding to a number of NGOs active in the Arab-Israeli conflict with ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
  • JVP’s strategy is to create “a wedge” within the American Jewish community, while working toward the goal of eliminating US economic, military, and political aid to Israel.
    • In November 2023, Columbia University suspended JVP claiming it violated university policies and expressed “threatening rhetoric and intimidation.”
  • National Lawyers Guild, a Marxist organization, engages in anti-Israel “lawfare,” using legal means to promote BDS as well the narrative of Israeli “war crimes” and “genocide.” It has launched a campaign to strip the Jewish National Fund (JNF) of its tax-exempt status in the U.S.
    • Charlotte Kates is a part-time organizer of the NLG International Committee.
    • Charlotte Kates is also Samidoun’s International Coordinator.  
      • ​​In February 2021, the Israeli Ministry of Defense designated Samidoun a terrorist organization and “a subsidiary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).” 
      • In October 2024, the US and Canada issued joint statements listing Samidoun as a terrorist entity. The US called Samidoun a “sham charity that serves as an international fundraiser for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization” and designated Samidoun head Khaled Barakat, “a member of the PFLP’s leadership” who played a “critical role[] in external fundraising for the PFLP.” 
    • In August 2024, Kates traveled to Iran to accept the “Eighth Annual Islamic Human Rights And Human Dignity Award,” as one of six recipients, alongside the leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) Ziyad Nakhaleh. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who had been killed in Iran in late July 2024, was also honored at the event.
    • In May 2024, Kates was arrested as part of a Vancouver hate-crime investigation after she praised the Oct. 7 attack as “heroic and brave” and called for the removal of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah and several other groups from the list of terrorist organizations.
    • At a March 2024 event, Kates stated, “There is nothing wrong with being a member of Hamas, being a leader of Hamas, being a fighter in Hamas.”

Tides Foundation Funding to NGOs