About Us
We’re a team of political, financial, operational and legal experts deeply committed to advancing social justice.
Tides Advocacy identifies, connects, and fuels movements for social justice and the health of our democracy. Founded in 1997, we leverage our extensive network and design solutions to make advocacy accessible to social change innovators in all sectors.
We help with strategy development, legal guidance, and the infrastructure to quickly establish, scale, and run high-impact advocacy initiatives and funds.
With a network of over 90 fiscally sponsored 501(c)(4) projects and funds across the United States, we support advocates to strengthen community voice and achieve lasting policy change.
From navigating the complexities of advocacy to solving financial issues to answering compliance questions, we've got our partners covered. Beyond that, we're partners in your work. We make connections, bridge gaps, and find unconventional solutions so that you can build political power and change systems and policies so they work for everyone.
We believe that change happens faster when you bring diverse people, organizations and communities together. In partnership with philanthropists, activists, policy makers and private sector leaders, we push the boundaries for policy reform.
Tides Advocacy (formerly The Advocacy Fund) is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization. Tides Advocacy is an affiliate of Tides, a 501(c)(3) organization.
Your partners in advocacy.
Our Approach
Unconventional approaches that get results.
We take an unconventional approach to advocacy.
Pro-Black Framework
The nation’s first Pro-Black Fiscal Sponsor.
We work to dismantle white supremacist and extractive policies, systems, and institutions to realize our shared vision for thriving communities.
90 Partners across 20 States.
Our Focus Areas
Along with our movement partners, we focus on and work towards policy change in the key justice issues of our times - democracy, equality and human rights, health and the environment, and shared prosperity.