About Tara Health Foundation
Tara Health Foundation concentrates its giving on intermediaries and movement infrastructure that build capacity for systems change rather than direct service delivery. Its largest investments support strategy, capital and convening mechanisms (e.g., “Orchid Capital” and Oasis Institute) and corporate engagement efforts to shift private-sector behavior. Grants are few, large, and often repeated to the same intermediary organizations, signaling a preference for funding anchor organizations and scalable strategy work.
Focus Areas
Movement-building and strategy infrastructure (e.g., Movement Strategy Center)Philanthropic capital vehicles and fiscal sponsorships for systems-change projects (e.g., Orchid Capital via intermediaries)Corporate social responsibility and corporate engagement initiatives (e.g., Business for Social Responsibility)Support for issue-agnostic intermediaries/anchor organizations that incubate programs (e.g., Hopewell Fund / Oasis Institute)
Who They Fund
people seeking abortion and reproductive health carepregnant and birthing people, especially Black and marginalized birthing people
About Tara Health Foundation
Tara Health Foundation is in spend-out mode, and its recent large grants show that strategy is the main story: multi-year, unrestricted seed capital is being used to create anchor organizations that can carry the foundation’s commitments forward after closure. The largest awards in the recent record went to Movement Strategy Center and Hopewell Fund for Orchid Capital and Oasis Institute, each receiving $2,050,000 in 2025, after prior support in 2024. That pattern points to a funder that favors institutions built to hold infrastructure, convene partners, and sustain work over time rather than one-off projects. The foundation also backs organizations that sit close to movement infrastructure and systems change. Business for Social Responsibility received repeated seven-figure support for a corporate engagement anchor role, while Rhia Ventures appears multiple times for general operating support and proposal-based funding. Across the record, grants are generally aimed at organizations working on reproductive health, birth justice, workplace equity, corporate engagement, and related gender, economic, and racial justice efforts. The funding is national, but the pattern is especially concentrated in organizations capable of building durable capacity and strategy.
What Tara Health Foundation Funds
Tara Health Foundation’s giving includes corporate engagement, reproductive health, and birth justice, with each area tied to specific organizational roles. In corporate engagement work, the American Civil Liberties Union received $200,000 in 2025 for a four-year pilot to develop state-level corporate engagement strategies focused on reproductive freedom, gender justice, voting rights, racial justice, and related issues. In abortion access, the foundation supported the Abortion Movement Fund with $500,000 in 2023 and $210,000 in 2024, alongside a $300,000 grant to Partners in Abortion Care for start-up costs tied to a clinic proposal. Birth justice appears in grants such as $300,000 to Resist Inc. for Birth Center Equity and $200,000 to Commonsense Childbirth for the National Perinatal Task Force. The record also includes support for practical-abortion infrastructure through Apiary for Practical Support, funded at $200,000 for general operating support.
How Tara Health Foundation Gives
Grant sizes cluster in the six-figure range, with a p25 of $10,000, a median of $50,000, and a p75 of $100,000. The recent record also includes several much larger awards, showing a mix of standard operating support and major seed capital. Repeat funding is common: some organizations appear across multiple years with the same general-purpose relationship, including multi-year support and continuing commitments. The foundation is a regular funder, not a DAF, and it does not fund individuals or make program-related investments. Its grantmaking is structured around large, flexible awards and long-horizon support rather than many small one-time grants.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$1.8M
Total Assets
$34.5M
Total Revenue
$9.1M
Total Expenses
$7.7M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $10K and $100K, with a median of $50K.
25th Percentile
$10K
Median
$50K
75th Percentile
$100K
Geographic Reach
National24 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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