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Tides Foundation & Tides Center

Finances

Finances for tax year 2000
Income		$144,823,348.00
Expenditures		$109,984,211.00
End-Of-Year Net Worth		$177,153,419.00
Tax Status		501(c)3

Selected Grants
	Donor		Albert A. List Foundation
	Grant		$9,000.00 in 1998
	Source		IRS Form 990 or 990-PF
	Details		Activist Training. Vallecitos Mountain Refuge
	Donor		John Merck Fund
	Grant		$28,500.00 in 1995
	Source		The Foundation Center
	Details		For media and public education campaigns for reports about pesticides and food safety, including shoppers' guide highlighting safer alternatives to produce with greatest risk of toxic residues.
	Donor		Rockefeller Foundation
	Grant		$50,000.00 in 2000
	Source		Foundation Annual Report
	Details		for its work on intellectual property issues in the development of agricultural biotechnology
	Donor		Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation
	Grant		$25,000.00 in 1993
	Source		The Foundation Center
	Details		To organise and train college and high school students to be environmental activists on their campuses and in their communities.
	Donor		John Merck Fund
	Grant		$245,000.00 in 1999
	Source		The Foundation Center
	Details		For 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
	Donor		Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund
	Grant		$60,000.00 in 2000
	Source		The Foundation Center
	Details		For the Center for Ethics and Toxic Substances -- To raise awareness of risks posed by biotechnology

Top Funders and Grantees
	Funding From Foundations & Corporations		Total Donated		Time Frame
	Pew Charitable Trusts		$98,098,400.00		1990 - 2002
	Ford Foundation		$24,636,869.00		1989 - 2002
	California Endowment		$20,450,139.00		1997 - 2000
	W. Alton Jones Foundation		$6,634,638.00		1988 - 2000
	John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation		$5,883,796.00		1990 - 2000
	Open Society Institute		$5,826,050.00		1997 - 2002
	Florence & John Schumann Foundation		$5,407,500.00		1992 - 1998
	David & Lucile Packard Foundation		$5,206,959.00		1988 - 2001
	William & Flora Hewlett Foundation		$4,855,000.00		1990 - 2000
	Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund		$4,518,000.00		1991 - 2000
	Charles Stewart Mott Foundation		$4,447,450.00		1990 - 2002
	James Irvine Foundation		$4,278,500.00		1993 - 2002
	Howard Heinz Endowment		$3,455,000.00		1995 - 2000
	U.S. Environmental Protection Agency		$3,262,095.00		1993 - 2001
	Nathan Cummings Foundation		$3,209,075.00		1991 - 2000
	Rockefeller Foundation		$2,685,670.00		1993 - 2000
	Joyce Foundation		$2,661,260.00		1988 - 2000
	A Territory Resource Foundation		$2,500,000.00		2000 - 2000
	W. K. Kellogg Foundation		$2,495,867.00		1991 - 2001
	Carnegie Corporation of New York		$2,262,000.00		1992 - 2002
	Funding From Other Activist Organizations
	Western Organization of Resource Councils		$6,000.00		1999 - 1999
	Environmental Defense		$1,000.00		1999 - 1999
	Wilderness Society		$690.00		1997 - 1997
	Grants To Other Activist Organizations
	Environmental Working Group		$331,826.00		1997 - 2000
	Western Organization of Resource Councils		$287,763.00		1991 - 1999
	Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy		$265,778.00		1992 - 2000
	Natural Resources Defense Council		$216,937.00		1991 - 2000
	Greenpeace		$158,567.00		1991 - 2000
	Northern Plains Resource Council		$143,000.00		1992 - 2000
	Center for Food Safety		$60,000.00		1997 - 1997
	Dakota Rural Action		$60,000.00		1996 - 2000
	Idaho Rural Council		$37,500.00		2000 - 2000
	Dakota Resource Council		$30,000.00		2000 - 2000
	Ruckus Society		$23,400.00		1999 - 2000
	EarthSave International		$6,000.00		1991 - 1998

 

[Carry_Okie]

A most familiar list of perps. The funny thing is, I've never heard of the Tides Foundation. Where do they focus their cash? If it's so heavy with Pew money, is a lot of it in the Pacific Northwest?