Changing Tides Foundation

Analysis

Changing Tides Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Encinitas, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2016, 10 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Changing Tides Foundation reported income of $357k and spending of $293k, spending 82% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from April 2022 to December 2023, income fell from $403k to $357k (-12%), an average of -5.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 58%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Changing Tides Foundation sits at the 64th percentile: it is larger than about 64% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile, and in the 67th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include US FDN for the Children of Haiti ($357k), Acts 29 Ministries Inc ($357k) and Daisy Project India Inc ($357k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 89% of the total. At year end it held assets of $298k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $298k.