The Financial Operating System for ministry

Tara Financial

Financial Intelligence for Faithful Stewardship

Plan, forecast, report, and steward with confidence — built for churches, charities, ministries, and faith-based nonprofits.

3–6 mo
Reserve policy, modelled live
Minutes
To a board-ready report
One
Source of financial truth
app.tarafinancial.com
Executive Dashboard
City Church Demo · FY2026 · as of Jun 30
Ask Tara
Total Giving YTD
$612,400
+8.4% vs LY
Total Expenses YTD
$555,447
+5.1% vs LY
Net Surplus YTD
$56,953
9.3% margin
Cash Balance
$382,000
+$24K MoM
Giving vs Expenses
JulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJun
GivingExpensesMax $200K

Built for churches · charities · ministries · Christian schools · mission organizations · faith-aligned nonprofits

The problem

Faithful organizations deserve better than guesswork

Most ministries run their finances across disconnected tools that record history but never tell leaders what comes next.

Numbers live in ten places

Giving in the ChMS, expenses in QuickBooks, forecasts in spreadsheets, board packs in slides. No single source of truth.

Reporting eats the month

Treasurers and finance directors lose days rebuilding the same board report every cycle — by hand, under deadline.

Decisions without foresight

“Can we afford this hire?” gets answered on instinct. Reserves, payroll ratios, and runway aren't modelled before the vote.

Why the old stack falls short

QuickBooks and spreadsheets were never built for this

They're fine for bookkeeping. They were never designed to steward a mission.

  • Bookkeeping tools record the past — they don't forecast reserves, runway, or payroll ratios.
  • Spreadsheets break silently, aren't access-controlled, and can't be trusted in a board room.
  • Neither speaks the language of stewardship: funds, designations, restricted giving, ministries.
  • No role model for senior leaders, board members, trustees, and auditors to share safely.

Tara sits on top of everything

Keep your bookkeeping where it is. Tara becomes the intelligence layer — connecting your accounting, giving, and bank data into one stewardship view for leaders and boards.

$1.2M
Revenue
4.2 mo
Reserves
+8.4%
Giving trend
Executive Dashboard

The whole picture, the moment you log in

Giving, expenses, surplus, cash, reserves, payroll ratio, and budget variance — every executive KPI on one calm, board-ready screen.

11 executive KPIs 7 board charts Live insight cards
Open the dashboard
app.tarafinancial.com
Executive Dashboard
City Church Demo · FY2026 · as of Jun 30
Ask Tara
Total Giving YTD
$612,400
+8.4% vs LY
Total Expenses YTD
$555,447
+5.1% vs LY
Net Surplus YTD
$56,953
9.3% margin
Cash Balance
$382,000
+$24K MoM
Giving vs Expenses
JulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJun
GivingExpensesMax $200K
Ask Tara AI

Plain-English answers, grounded in your numbers

Ask “Can we afford another staff member?” or “What happens if giving drops 10%?” Tara answers with its sources shown — and tells you when data is missing rather than guessing.

  • Sources used on every answer
  • Confidence indicator
  • Never fabricates a number
Forecast
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Risk
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Scenario Lab

Model the decision before the board votes

Move sliders for giving, attendance, payroll, utilities, and staffing. Watch surplus, reserve ratio, days cash, and a 12 / 24-month forecast update live.

  • Baseline & saved scenarios
  • 12 and 24-month projections
  • Risk level + Tara commentary
Forecast
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Risk
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Surplus
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Board Reports

Board-ready in minutes, not days

Toggle the sections you need, drop in scenario summaries and AI recommendations, and produce a print-optimized, cover-paged pack your board will actually read.

  • Section toggles & preview
  • Approval status & sharing
  • Print-optimized cover page
Forecast
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Risk
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Surplus
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On the roadmap

Giving and accounting, done the stewardship way

Tara Giving and Tara Accounting are designed and visible in the product today — and clearly marked as future modules. When they go live, donations, settlements, and journal entries will flow into the same stewardship view, with payment data tokenized through secure providers.

Coming soon

Tara Giving

Donor flows, recurring gifts, settlement, refunds, and tax receipting — visualized now, processed by secure providers later.

Coming soon

Tara Accounting

Chart of accounts, funds, journal entries, reconciliation, and two-way QuickBooks / Xero sync, modelled for the future.

Security & trust

Built to be trusted in the board room

Tenant isolation, role-based access, audit logs, and encryption by default. Tara never stores raw card or bank account details — payment data is tokenized through secure providers.

Read our trust commitments
Tenant isolation
Role-based access
Audit logs
Encryption by default
Tokenized payments
Privacy by design
Simple, mission-aligned pricing

Plans that grow with your organization

From founding organizations to multi-site enterprises and national charities.

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