OUR PURPOSE
We leverage 100% of our resources to support gender, economic, and racial justice. We're spending out by 2030—investing everything in support of a world where everyone has control over their bodies, economic wellbeing, and future.
OUR MISSION
Tara Health Foundation advances health and economic justice by transferring all of our resources and assets to invest in and elevate solutions at the intersection of race and gender.
OUR VISION
We envision a world of collective thriving and shared abundance; a society where women, gender-expansive people, and BIPOC communities assert sovereignty over their bodies and futures, and lay full claim to quality healthcare, capital, and power.
To achieve this, institutions built on extraction and exploitation–beginning with philanthropy itself–must reckon with, repair, and redistribute our historically unjust concentration of wealth and power. This vision can only become reality by dismantling the structural racism and sexism that feeds this inequity.
OUR VALUES
Our values are the earth where we plant ourselves: they fertilize our growth, support every decision we make, and help our relationships to thrive.
Authenticity
We believe our collective power comes from showing up as our whole, authentic selves. We name our gaps and limitations honestly, using that clarity to guide our work.
Justice
We act to remedy racial and gender injustice by addressing root causes, not just symptoms. We work for systemic change so that race and gender no longer predict life outcomes.
Transparency
We operate with transparency across all our practices and outcomes. This is one way we hold ourselves accountable to racial and gender justice.
Equity
We work for justice and fairness in how institutions and systems operate and distribute resources. Achieving equity requires understanding the root causes of disparities in our society.
OUR WORK THROUGH 2030
As we spend out by 2030, we're discovering our work goes deeper than simply transferring resources. At every level—individual, collective, and institutional—we're reckoning with our role as gatekeepers and transforming the ways we relate to power.
We’re focused on continuing this transformation while sharing our iterative, nonlinear, and ongoing journey. We invite others into the work with us—exploring together what it takes for philanthropy to support gender, economic, and racial justice, rather than preserving the status quo.
WHAT WE’VE LEARNED
A Theory of Transformation
Throughout our journey, we've discovered that transformation happens differently than we expected.
Each time we changed a practice, previously unnoticed beliefs rose to the surface. When we committed to examining those beliefs—as individuals, as a collective, as an institution—we understood we had to make deeper changes to our practices. Those deeper changes revealed more new assumptions that required excavation. This wasn't a process we could complete or master. It had to become a new way of being.
IN PRACTICE
Confronting White Supremacy Culture
Early on, partners challenged us to see the ways white supremacy culture shaped our work—our defensiveness, our fragility, our assumption that we knew best. We had to reckon with these patterns institutionally and face them in ourselves. This deeply personal and collective work led us to change our governance structure and grantmaking approach, which evolved our mission and areas of focus. Those changes then revealed how power operated in subtler ways; how we still centered ourselves and our own "goodness." When we started to relinquish power, it exposed deeper beliefs about accountability and demanded we transform our understanding of our role entirely. Each layer of change revealed another. We're still peeling them back.
We share our journey because philanthropy keeps cycling through the same reforms without fundamental change–grantees have been telling us so for decades. The sector separates practice improvements from mindset work, treating them as different initiatives. But they're inseparable. Real transformation happens when you commit to examining both together, continuously, knowing the work will keep revealing itself.
We share this not because we claim to have perfected this approach, but because movements deserve philanthropy that transforms as deeply as the change we seek. Our purpose now is to normalize this kind of ongoing transformation—to show it's possible, necessary, and never finished. For us, for the field, for all of us trying to build something better.
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