Now Accepting Donations
We will begin accepting applications once sufficient funding is in place to sustainably support the program.
Our lending programs would not exist without the Indigenous communities, Tribal nations, traditions, lands, plants, and ancestors that long preceded us.
Psychedelic medicines are not innovations of the modern era. They are part of ancient knowledge systems held, protected, and practiced by Indigenous and Tribal peoples across generations. These lineages have endured despite criminalization, extraction, and systemic exclusion from formal financial systems.
At the same time, access to financial resources has historically been denied to many of the very communities whose knowledge and stewardship made this work possible.
The Stewardship Loan Program is our commitment to practicing benefit-sharing with integrity.
Practicing Benefit-Sharing Through Stewardship
This program is being developed to return resources directly to Indigenous and Tribal stewardship—not as charity, and not as extraction, but as responsibility.
Rather than moving quickly to deploy capital, Inner Guru has chosen to proceed with care. The Stewardship Loan Program will not launch until appropriate Indigenous leadership, representation, and governance are in place. Its first priority is not lending, but stewardship.
When introduced, this program is intended to offer revolving, interest-free loans designed in partnership with Indigenous and Tribal communities. The purpose is continuity: supporting legacy healers, facilitators, and community-led initiatives in ways that honor sovereignty, cultural integrity, and long-term care.
What this looks like is not pre-defined.
The structure, priorities, and boundaries of the Stewardship Loan Program will be shaped by Indigenous-led guidance rather than institutional assumptions. Inner Guru will make no claims of ownership over land, medicines, ceremonial knowledge, or intellectual property, and will defer to community-defined forms of consent, accountability, and evaluation.
Stewardship Before Capital
This program is grounded in a simple principle: money should not move faster than relationship.
The Stewardship Loan Program is being developed alongside an Indigenous-led Stewardship Committee that will guide whether, how, and under what conditions lending should occur. The committee exists to ensure that any financial activity connected to Indigenous psychedelic lineages proceeds with consent, accountability, and restraint.
There may be pauses. There may be changes. There may be decisions not to proceed until conditions are right.
That restraint is not a delay. It is the work.
Responsibility Before Access
The Stewardship Loan Program exists because access to psychedelic work cannot be separated from responsibility.
Benefit-sharing is not symbolic. It is structural. It requires patience, humility, and a willingness to move at the speed of relationship rather than urgency.
This program is our commitment to remembering before redistributing, and to ensuring that any financial systems connected to psychedelic care honor the peoples and lands that made that care possible.
Supporting the Stewardship Loan Program
There are two meaningful ways to engage with this program at this stage:
We are currently inviting Indigenous and Tribal healers, facilitators, and community members to apply to participate in the Stewardship Committee.
Participation is not advisory in name only. Committee members will help shape governance, accountability, and ethical boundaries before any capital is deployed. This is an invitation to shape the foundation of the program so that if and when resources move, they do so with consent, care, and continuity.
Give to Support Stewardship
Aligned donors are invited to contribute to the formation and long-term sustainability of the Stewardship Loan Program. When donating online, contributors may select “Stewardship Loan Program” to direct their gift specifically toward this work.
Contributions will be held until the Stewardship Committee determines appropriate governance, use, and stewardship pathways. Funds are not deployed in advance of leadership. Giving at this stage supports relationship-building, governance formation, and the long-term capacity to steward resources responsibly over time.