The Obama Foundation funneled $2 million into the left-wing Tides Center, a clearinghouse for “dark money” that bankrolls progressive activist groups with untraceable funds, newly released tax filings show.
Federal records reviewed by the New York Post show the foundation gave $1 million in 2022 and another $1 million in 2023. While the donations were described as support for “local organizations that are working to reduce violence in communities,” the money instead moved through a network that steers tens of millions into the Tides Foundation — a major pass-through funder for left-wing causes. (RELATED: If You Want To Crack Down On Left-Wing Terror, Here’s Where To Start)
During the same period, the Tides Center shifted nearly $20 million to the Tides Foundation, which in turn bankrolls a wide array of progressive activist groups.
Parker Thayer, an investigative researcher at the Capital Research Center, told the Daily Caller News Foundation that “The Tides Network, marching in lockstep with similarly sized left-wing ‘dark money’ groups … poured hundreds of millions of dollars from totally untraceable sources into activism meant to sway the outcome of elections.”
Ahead of the 2022 midterms, the Obama Foundation also backed a nonprofit that funneled roughly $2.7 million into pro-abortion groups working to elect pro-abortion candidates, along with $7.7 million for liberal voter registration and turnout efforts, according to the DCNF.
That same year, Tides groups sent $132,000 to WESPAC, the fiscal sponsor of National Students for Justice in Palestine and the Palestinian Youth Movement. The former organized a “Day of Resistance” one day after Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack on Israel, while the latter praised the assault as “the collapse of the torturous Zionist occupation.”
Pro-Hamas groups Jewish Voice for Peace and If Not Now — both involved in the occupation of a U.S. Capitol building — pulled in a combined $102,000 through Tides-linked funding streams in 2022, according to the DCNF.
Tides has also partnered with the Trans Justice Funding Project and processed donations for Black Lives Matter Grassroots, the DCNF separately reported.
That same year, Code Pink received $100,000 from the Tides Foundation. A 2023 House probe later concluded that the “[Chinese Communist Party] nonprofit influence machine reportedly now extends to Code Pink.”
In 2022, Tides directed $229,570 into bail funds in cities such as Chicago and Milwaukee — the latter of which recorded rising homicide numbers that year, according to the DCNF.
Meanwhile, the Obama Foundation’s donation page invites supporters to help “college students to make a meaningful impact in their communities” while “[training] the next generation of changemakers.”