At Tara Health Foundation, we are actively working to transfer 100% of our resources to solutions at the intersection of race and gender.
Our journey has taught us that true justice requires more than traditional philanthropy — it demands that privileged institutions like ours completely relinquish our historically unjust status, capital, and power.
OUR JOURNEY
We have always believed that bold timelines drive bold actions. Since our founding in 2014, we've been committed to aligning 100% of our assets with our mission and spending down no later than 2030.
Initially focused on advancing the health and well-being of women and girls, our work evolved as we confronted how our “traditional” philanthropic approaches were reinforcing the very unjust systems we sought to change.
This recognition sparked a deep transformation. We expanded our understanding of gender and placed racial equity and justice at the center of everything we do — not as an add-on, but as our fundamental lens through which we examine our role and our responsibility to change.
Now, we’re spending our final years confronting deeper questions about philanthropy itself: how we hold power, how it shapes our work, and how transforming it might be our most meaningful contribution.
Reflections from our Founder, Ruth Shaber
OUR WORK
Working in deep relationship with movement leaders, we've seeded four Anchor Organizations that now lead our work forward. These partners are not just stewarding our remaining resources — they're demonstrating what becomes possible when philanthropy truly shifts power: new models, new possibilities, new ways forward.
Meet Our Anchor Organizations
The Center for Business and Social Justice at BSR (Business for Social Responsibility) mobilizes companies to take a systemic and intersectional approach to advance social justice and equity.
Oasis Institute
Oasis Institute builds creative solutions for belonging that are rooted in social justice values and physical spaces.
Orchid Capital Collective is a non-profit impact investing firm redirecting the flow of capital to advance reproductive and economic justice. They invest financial and non-financial resources in community-owned ventures creating transformative systems of care with and for Black, Indigenous, and people of color.
Rhia Ventures advances reproductive and maternal health equity by intentionally leveraging capital to center the needs, experiences, and perspectives of historically marginalized people in decision-making.
While Tara Health is no longer awarding new grants, we invite you to learn more about and support the visionary efforts of these Anchor Organizations. Through them, we see glimpses of the vibrant futures that become possible when resources and power flow to the movement leaders already building the world we need.
THE OPPORTUNITY
Philanthropy's pursuit of justice depends on our willingness to confront and reshape our relationships with power.
We know firsthand how difficult this is— we’ve faced our own resistance, made countless mistakes, and continue to learn from movement leaders who generously challenge our assumptions.
As we enter into our final phase, we’re embracing the vulnerability of honest reflection— sharing both the moments that validate our approach and the ongoing struggles that remind us how much we still have to learn.
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