Taara Inc

What it reported doing in 2025

1. Scaling prevention: equipping children and teens with tools to stay safein 2025, taara expanded its prevention education footprint across both india and the united states, deepening curriculum quality while broadening reach.in india, our year-long, in-school awareness program continued to directly reach 16,000 children (and impacted 48,000, including the family multiplier effect), with an 83% increase in measured awareness of online and offline exploitation risks. Trained facilitators delivered structured modules covering sextortion, grooming, ai abuse, online enticement, unsafe touch, and self-worth, supplemented by our proprietary animation library designed for rural, low-literacy, and no-device contexts.we strengthened parent and community engagement through community mapping exercises and caregiver sessions, ensuring protection networks extend beyond the classroom.in the united states, taara launched our six-session middle and high school workshop called the changemakers and unnormal respectively, on ai-era digital safety, covering deepfakes, ai-generated csam, sextortion, grooming through gaming and group chats and bystander leadership. Modules were piloted in New Jersey middle schools and adapted for the bronx, with full instructor decks, scenario cards, and trauma-informed teacher training resources built in-house.our unnormal assembly program continued to anchor taara's high school presence, with active engagements at henry snyder high school (jersey city), lincoln high school, malcolm x shabazz high school (newark), holy angels academy, and partnerships with children's village. Sessions featured interactive discussions, student-led conversations.2. Survivor empowerment in action: training, income, and dignitytaara's 2025 survivor work continued to prioritize self-sufficiency, financial autonomy and individualized pathways out of vulnerability.in india, reintegration communities received expanded vocational training, entrepreneurship coaching, and financial literacy support, with survivors building livelihoods as shop owners, farmers, tailors, and home-based entrepreneurs.taara continued funding education for survivors who remain minors, sustaining strong school attendance and a 97% retention rate across our supported cohort.we piloted zero-tech, zero-writing impact assessment tools, including side of the room, traffic light cards etc designed for variable-literacy contexts and government-sensitive data environments. These tools allowed us to measure progress without compromising survivor safety or dignity.in the united states, survivors referred through trusted partners accessed certified job training programs and esl classes, with taara providing wraparound support across housing, legal, and financial recovery.we hosted a contest for the survivors to further win start up funding. 3. Deepening our footprint and partnerships2025 was a year of organizational maturation, with taara expanding its program library, formalizing its india presence, and laying infrastructure for multi-year scale.we built and deployed an expanded library of original curriculum modules across both geographies, covering ai-generated content, deepfakes, voice cloning, gaming-based grooming, coercion through group chats, and grooming disguised as mentorship. India-specific localizations addressed moj, josh, sharechat, bgmi, and resources including the national cybercrime helpline (1930) and childline (1098).partnerships with vipla continued to anchor school-based prevention and adolescent survivor programming in maharashtrawe initiated the formal registration of taara impact foundation india, structuring a long-term vehicle for receiving csr funds and scaling india operations.in the u.s., we strengthened our school principal network across bergen, hudson, and essex counties, and developed a teacher training framework grounded in nj-specific mandatory reporting law and trauma-informed behavior interpretation.throughout 2025, taara continued to op

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 59.1%; rating input score 59
• Program expense ratio: 89%; rating input score 89
• Fundraising efficiency: $174.95 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
  • Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
  • Requires narrative reports: Fail
  • Conducts field audits: Fail
  • May suspend future funding: Fail
  • Requires financial reports: Fail
  • Conducts site visits: Fail
  • Requires grant agreements: Fail
  • May require repayment: Fail
• Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
  • Whistleblower policy: Fail
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 34.2%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.88; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 20.8% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 23.4% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 28% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings