One of the things that President Donald Trump is focused on in his second term is eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse within the federal government. Elon Musk and DOGE went a long way to revealing just how large the scope of ridiculous things Americans’ tax dollars were being spent on. Currently, in Minnesota, even more fraud and squandering of tax dollars is being revealed. But now we are learning more about how little regard the Biden administration had for hard-working Americans’ tax dollars, and where that money went in the year before Donald Trump returned to the White House.
DEEP DIVE: A steady annual flow of taxpayer bucks to the leftist nonprofit Tides Center (companion to the Tides Foundation) has GROWN, totaling $37.8M in 2024, its latest tax docs show.
If you don’t know Tides, you’re likely familiar with the empire of activism it funds. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/8J2WBj9JDo
— Hudson Crozier 🇺🇸 (@Hudson_Crozier) January 1, 2026
The Tides Center is a social justice fiscal sponsor of and is associated with the Tides Foundation. In 2024, tax records show that the Tides Center received a total of $37,810,397 of taxpayer money. It is the largest amount of government funding in a decade (up from $13,030,345 in 2014). The money came largely in the form of government grants, and because it was doled out during the Biden administration, you can guess the left-wing causes it went to.
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During Joe Biden’s last year in office, the Tides Center gave money to groups that worked on issues like expanding access to abortion, affirmative action, and helping illegal immigrants get out of detention facilities. They have also lent a fiscal hand to a group called the “Anti-Police Terror Project,” and provided information on sex-change procedures. However, a big chunk of those taxpayer dollars, $21.9 million, went to the Tides Foundation, and something called Tides Advocacy, which describes itself as a 501(c)(4) “social welfare organization.” Tides Advocacy claims its mission is to provide:
“fiscal sponsorship and essential services, including financial, legal and personnel services, to nonprofit organizations that promote shared prosperity and social justice.”
They also claim to manage roughly “140 projects and activities.”
So, what other areas of “social justice” has the Tides Center felt it important to donate funds to in 2024? There was the $25,000 donated to the Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ). In 2021, Discover Card cut ties with the AFGJ after it was learned that they had ties to a Marxist terrorist group called the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). AFGJ also fiscally sponsored a pro-Iran activist whom the Treasury Department sanctioned in October of 2024 for fundraising for PFLP terrorists.
USAID funneled money to BLM. They paid 27 million dollars to the Tides Center.
The Tides Center funnels money directly to BLM.
— Victor Bigham 🇺🇸 (@Ravious101) February 6, 2025
Oregon-based Civil Liberties Defense Center (CLDC) received $48,500 in 2024. Their legal specialty: giving legal advice and representation to protesters associated with Antifa and other leftist groups. The CLDC’s current cause is defending protesters in a federal investigation of their alleged doxxing of immigration officials. Even Biden-era federal agencies were not immune to donating taxpayer funds to the Tides Center. The Department of Labor awarded the Center $3 million for “expansion of registered apprenticeship (RA) programs.” This is something the Trump administration should be taking a hard look at because there is another $5.9 million on its way to the Tides Center.
But the cherry on the cake of the taxpayer money giveaway may be that between 2014 and 2022, the State Department, along with our old buddies, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), gave a whopping $27 million to the Tides Center. We can only guess what left-wing causes that money went to.
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In August, President Trump brought all of this to a screeching halt. He signed an executive order that requires federal agencies to only award grant money that “demonstrably advance the President’s policy priorities.” The gravy train has ended for things like race-preferential programs, transgenderism, illegal immigration, and anything promoting “anti-American values.”
Americans are getting sick and tired of being defrauded out of their tax dollars in places like Minnesota, and also, having those dollars treated like Monopoly money, going to leftist projects and causes they do not support. The Tides Center and other groups like it will no longer be fleecing Americans out of their hard-earned tax dollars.
that would help, however until the Tides foundation and the Soros Open Society foundation are drained of money and all the employees put in prisons along with all of the Soros and all of the contributors to the Tides foundation, America will continue to have problems. @POTUS
— Dan noringer (@noringe88195) December 27, 2025
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