Tides Foundation and Tides Advocacy: identifying the actual funder

Similar names can hide important differences in a funding investigation. Tides Foundation and the organization formerly called Tides Advocacy must be examined through their own records, recipients and legal identities.

Reviewed 17 October 2026. Financial figures and professional roles retain the dates stated in their sources.

Two entities and current names

Tides Foundation’s 2024 tax return identifies a charitable grantmaking organization with employer identification number 51-0198509. Beyond Impact describes itself as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit formerly known as Tides Advocacy; its announcement says the new name took effect February 1, 2026. Its 2024 return uses employer identification number 94-3153687. These identifiers prevent a grant from one institution being incorrectly assigned to another. The tax labels refer to different United States Internal Revenue Code categories. [1][2][3][7]

People and organizational activities

As checked October 17, 2026, Janiece Evans-Page leads Tides. Beyond Impact’s team page names Vincent Jones chief executive officer, Michelle M. Collier chief financial officer and treasurer, and Karen Driscoll board chair. Beyond Impact offers fiscal sponsorship and operational support for advocacy projects. Support of this kind can help a small initiative manage staff, compliance and finances; it also makes clear project-level reporting important for understanding who authorized an expenditure. [4][5][2]

What the CAIR and AMP records establish

Tides Foundation’s 2024 Schedule I lists $24,500 for CAIR-Cleveland, $24,500 for CAIR-Columbus/Cincinnati and $160,000 for CAIR-NGA Inc. The first two entries share an employer identification number. These are actual reported grants to named recipients associated with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), rather than evidence of an award to every CAIR chapter. The listed purposes are broad program categories; the entries do not identify financing for violence. [1]

This review did not verify the specific claim that Tides Advocacy funded American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) or CAIR. Text searches of the reviewed 2024 Advocacy filing did not establish those awards. AMP identifies AJP Educational Foundation as its fiscal sponsor, so searches must include that legal name. This limited review cannot rule out other years, intermediaries or records. A coalition relationship alone cannot fill the missing grant evidence. [3][6]

Accountability without merged assumptions

Fiscal sponsorship can provide useful infrastructure while leaving outsiders with a difficult tracing task. Request the project name, sponsor, restrictions and recipient, then compare the sponsor’s and recipient’s records. Evaluate services, advocacy outcomes and documented harms independently. A transfer establishes a financial relationship; establishing responsibility for a particular act requires additional evidence about its purpose, use and the relevant decision-makers. Neither a charitable label nor an advocacy label settles that question.