[philman_36]

It's simple enough. You plug in the desired name on a search engine (Americans for Gun Safety) (I went to the second site listed...Americans for Gun Safety (AGS) Foundation). You go to the "About Us" section on the site listed on the left hand side of the site. You read, ascertain, and follow the scent. They're all too willing to tell you who they're associated with, in this case the Tides Center.
Repeat the same process with the Tides Center and just follow the trail.
Probably too simplistic of an explanation, but it is pretty simple, at least to me.

[neverdem]

Here are some links, courtesy Google.com, between Tides and George Soros:

http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:Vx8gvm-Fi9sJ:www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/x3770435801.pdf+Tides%2BGeorge%2BSoros&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

#17 http://www.leftgatekeepers.com/pdf/george_soros.pdf

http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1020523/posts

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/opinion/datelinedc/s_143947.html

The last link says that the head of Tides is also the head of the Service Employee International Union, Wade Rathke.

Here are some links that mention Tides and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, another crew engaged in social engineering:

http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/author.asp?ID=11

http://www.philasafesound.org/faq.html

http://www.capitalresearch.org/search/orgdisplay.asp?org=TIF101

[fire_eye]

AGS is "Progressive" megamillionaire Andrew "Monster.com" McKelvey's brainchild. McKelvey was upset that HCI et. al. weren't "Making Any Progress" in "The Fight Against Guns", which he (probably correctly) attributed to their appearing "too extremist" (Sarah's habit of going into Congressional offices and going on a crying jag didn't help much either, of course). So, he decided to spawn a gungrab organization which would "Appear More Mainstream". In order to do this, what he did was to offer big cash incitements to existing clutches and covens of gungrabbers in the various states, to be "absorbed" into his organization. He also funded the organization of the various chapters of the Commie Mommies.

The presence of Senator "Treason" McPain on his website is no accident. McKelvey has contributed *big* bux to McPain. He also paid for McPain's anti-gun TV ad campaign here in Oregon, which resulted in the passage of the gunshow regulation bill with which we are now suffering.

Don't underestimate McKelvey. He understands media manipulation, he's a completely self-centered, smug, arrogant, supercilious, elitist "Progressive" slimeball (Use a search engine to verify my claim, if you can stomach it), and he *is* able to be effective where covens of whining urbanite gun-grabbers have failed in the past.

Personally, I'd like to see a full-court press on the part of firearms owners to put his "Monster.com" out of business. It would send a message, even though I doubt if it would affect his personal fortune or his pathological misuse thereof to any great extent at this stage.