Why Invest With Us?
Empower innovative entrepreneurs with a vision and plan to change the world. Whether you partner with us for one initiative or many, your investment lives beyond one moment. Your support provides flexible equity to forward-thinking companies, which are repaid to the foundation and recycled to fund more groundbreaking businesses.
You Empower Entrepreneurs Globally
350+
loans and investments with impact-focused, diverse entrepreneurs
100%
of our endowment directly invested into mission aligned businesses
$10M+
invested to help launch and grow world-changing businesses

Decarceration Fund
Meet Our Investees
Our investees are revolutionizing business, one brilliant idea at a time. Explore their inspiring stories to see the types of earth shaking entrepreneurs we fund. As our partner, you’ll be supporting these leaders.
Reset Tourism Fund
We believe that tourism can be a force for good. Our founder, Hal Taussig, pioneered UnTours, the original apartment vacation company, to help people forge meaningful connections while traveling while supporting the local economy. The Reset Tourism Fund supports businesses making waves of change in the industry. We invite you to invest in the future of tourism with us.
Astungkara Way
Grant BLVD
UnTours
Foundation Fund
Beyond tourism, our partners fund businesses that seek to address the world’s social, economic, and environmental problems. Our portfolio spans diverse industries and community needs. Businesses do not have to be in the tourism industry to receive debt or equity investments from the foundation.
Let’s change the world together! Contact us to get started.
Co-Investment Opportunities
Investing in a specific business is another way to fuel entrepreneurs creating big-picture solutions. Many of our investees are looking for additional direct investments. Explore our co-investment opportunities to find companies that align with your organization’s mission.
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Newsworthy Investments
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We are big supporters of the Fair Trade movement here at the Untours Foundation in Media, PA, the first Fair...Read More
Untours Foundation Co-CEO Elizabeth Killough is expanding her influence and growing her impact as a champion for Mission Aligned Investment....Read More
Grant Blvd is much more than a sustainable fashion brand. This brilliant Black-owned, Philadelphia-based apparel company make one-of-a-kind pieces from...Read More
We love our investees and are especially proud of smart entrepreneurs like Yve-Car Momperousse and Stephane Jean-Baptiste. Their Kreyòl Essence...Read More
For Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, we held a powerful, loving and inspiring conversation with Dana Donofree about her...Read More
We recently hosted a Zoom conversation with Rachel Faller the founder of tonlé, a sustainable fashion label with all the...Read More
Before Kreyol Essence won on Shark Tank, they were winners of the foundation’s UnDreamed Of Award Dear Untours family, Guess...Read More
After a summer heavy rain got Lor Holmes’s flight canceled, she finally made it to sunny Philadelphia. And, lucky me...Read More
Michigan based Rende Progress Capital is the recipient of the foundation’s most recent loan. Rende is a Community Development Financial...Read More
Witness to Innocence is celebrating its 15th year of fighting for an end to the death penalty. For those who...Read More
When Catherine first moved to Philly, having access to healthy, local food was already a priority for her. She was...Read More
Our investees span the globe, from Indonesia to Africa, California to Philadelphia. Our work has often focused on urban redevelopment,...Read More
“I felt like this is it. I’m going to combine my two passions for fair trade and for soccer, and...Read More
The Untours Foundation hasn’t ever made a loan to a museum, but it is invested in an exciting new arts...Read More
Lancaster Food Company, one of the Untours Foundation’s recent investees, is definitely a “town and country” company. Located in...Read More
What if U.S. communities embraced the gifts that international refugees have to offer and partnered with them to rebuild our...Read More
Huffington Post blog by Untours Foundation Director Elizabeth Killough A Wopila feast – Lakota for Thank You – is being...Read More
Our Partners
Meet a few funding partners who support our work.
FAQs
- You invest in UnTours Foundation.
- Investment goes to investee as flexible equity.
- Flexible equity boosts investee’s business growth.
- Investee repays loan plus limited interest.
- Repayment is invested back into UnTours Foundation.
Hal and Norma Taussig founded the UnTours Foundation in 1992. Why? They wanted to share the profits from UnTours, which had become a successful travel business.
Hal tried many ways to share this profit, including sending profits to customers by check, paying all employees the same wage based on profits, and selling the business to the staff. Finally, Hal found the solution by establishing the UnTours Foundation.
Funding partners can provide one-time or recurring financial support to the UnTours Foundation. Partners can also co-invest with our investees or sponsor our events throughout the year. Please reach out to see how you can join the adventure! We’d love to have you along.
While we fund various companies, the Reset Tourism Fund is specifically for businesses in the tourism sector.
Vamos Expeditions
Join the adventure. We’ve got the map. Let’s walk this road together.
Join the adventure. We’ve got the map. Let’s walk this road together.
Vamos Expeditions