Leftist Nonprofit Behemoth Got $37.8 Million In Taxpayer Money In Year Before Trump’s Return

A giant nonprofit’s annual influx of taxpayer money rose to $37,810,397 in 2024 while it gave millions to numerous left-wing activist groups before President Donald Trump’s return to office, newly released tax records show.

The Tides Center, a pro-“social justice” fiscal sponsor and companion to the Tides Foundation, reported more government funding that year than in any year throughout the preceding decade, showing an increase from $13,030,345 in 2014, according to its tax filings. The documents reveal how government grants, often awarded for ostensibly non-partisan projects, have helped fuel the far-reaching Tides money apparatus.

Throughout 2024, the Tides Center spent much of its other income on groups dedicated to causes such as expandingabortion access, lobbying for affirmative action, helping migrants pay their way out of immigration detention facilities, advocating against “police terror” and promoting sex-change procedures, according to the tax filings. It also spent $21.9 million on the Tides Foundation and Tides Advocacy, a self-described 501(c)(4) “social welfare organization.”

The Tides media team did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment. The Tides Center described its mission in a 2024 audit document as providing “fiscal sponsorship and essential services, including financial, legal and personnel services, to nonprofit organizations that promote shared prosperity and social justice.” The center manages around “140 projects and activities,” the document says.

The Tides Center’s 2024 donations included $25,000 to the Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ), a leftist charity that lost business with financial processing firms in 2021 after media coverage showed its ties to the Marxist terrorist group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). The AFGJ was the fiscal sponsor for a pro-Iran activist organization that the Treasury Department sanctioned in October 2024 as a fundraising arm for PFLP terrorists.

Additionally, the Tides Center sent $48,500 in 2024 to the Oregon-based Civil Liberties Defense Center (CLDC), which gives legal guidance and representation specifically to protesters aligned with Antifa and other leftist movements. The group is now suing the Trump administration over new regulations meant to quell disruptive protesters at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities. The CLDC and other left-wing attorneys have also banded together to defendInstagram users against a federal probe targeting their alleged “doxing” of immigration officials.

The Department of Labor (DOL) is the only federal agency that gave to the Tides Center in 2024, according to government spending records, which show $3 million awarded for “expansion of registered apprenticeship (RA) programs.” The award is ongoing, with at least $5.9 million more on the way.

Trump signed an executive order in August requiring federal agencies to only award grants that “demonstrably advance the President’s policy priorities” rather than race-preferential programs, transgenderism, illegal immigration or any “anti-American values.” The White House and DOL did not respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

The Tides Center and its foundation also received more than $27 million between 2014 and 2022 from the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development before Trump drastically cut the two agencies’ foreign aid spending, the DCNF previously reported.