ANCHOR ORGANIZATIONS
By 2030, we will redistribute all of our institutional wealth into an ecosystem of movement builders that will steward our mission into the future.
Our anchor organizations are new nonprofits and programs that grew out of our four funding areas. Each operates independently from the Tara Health Foundation, with large multi-year unrestricted grant commitments of $6M+ as early-stage seed capital.
These organizations steward our remaining grantmaking dollars, and continue the work started by our funding portfolios in reproductive health, birth justice, workplace equity, and corporate engagement. Together, they are creating an ecosystem where communities control the capital needed to build their envisioned futures.
BSR
The Bridge Between Business & Social Movements
For over 30 years, BSR's work with business has made progress towards a world in which all people can thrive. Individually and through collective action, we have catalyzed business to advance gender equality, reduce climate damaging emissions, and protect human rights. We have shifted the business agenda, translated commitments into action and built collaborations to achieve systemic change. We have done this work where extensive regulatory frameworks exist, as well as establishing voluntary standards and frameworks where policy solutions are not available.
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Orchid Capital
Collective Investing at the Intersection of Reproductive and Economic Justice
Orchid Capital Collective is a nonprofit impact investing firm growing just ecosystems of birth and reproductive care. We deploy integrated capital—blending debt, equity, grants, and non-financial resources—to support midwives, doulas, and advocates building community-rooted models of care. Our regenerative approach doesn't take more than it gives. It moves beyond financial returns to strengthen the financial and strategic capacity of our partners—grounded in principles of non-extraction, interdependence, and deep trust in communities to lead the solutions they need. We invest in those reshaping reproductive care from the ground up.
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Rhia Ventures
Activating capital to advance reproductive health equity in service of racial justice
At Rhia Ventures, we envision a world where everyone can thrive with full autonomy over their reproductive and maternal health. That's why our activities include systems change to transform the women's reproductive and maternal health market into one that serves all people who need care; capital strategies to leverage private sector investment in women's health innovation; and advising services to equip organizations, investors, and entrepreneurs with incorporating health and racial equity into business strategy. Rhia Ventures is also committed to creating the conditions that make our work possible, which means addressing structural barriers to capital facing groups that have been overlooked in traditional financing and creating a more inclusive capital chain.
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Oasis Institute
Creative Solutions for Solidarity and Belonging
Oasis Institute is a startup nonprofit initiative solving big societal problems of loneliness, division and polarization–the root cause of which is a lack of connection and belonging. We aim to build more belonging and connection in communities in a time when democracy and civil rights are under attack. We believe in-person connection in physical spaces is a key ingredient for stronger democracies and communities. Our signature program Gather is launching in 2025 to pair nonprofits that want to organize events and gatherings with physical spaces that match their needs. On a multi-year timeline, we intend to launch Oasis Town, a vision for a community space that hosts residencies for economic, worker and social justice organizers and advocates.
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What is our Anchor Strategy?
Our anchor strategy is the culminating experiment of our 100% mission alignment journey.
The seeds of this strategy began germinating through conversations among our program officers and the communities they worked alongside. Our early experiences with participatory grantmaking surfaced a tough question:
Is it possible to move away from the extractive practices of traditional grantmaking, in which foundations extract knowledge from grantees, then abandon them after arbitrary amounts of time, while maintaining power and control?
What has followed has been a messy, humbling journey of transformation; one that has required us to cede our own control and put trust in our partners, deeply reimagining our purpose and relationship to change.
