New Delhi, Delhi
Action For Autism supports children and adults with autism and their families from its National Centre for Autism in New Delhi. Its work includes assessments, special education, family support and teacher training.
Child care
See details →New Delhi, Delhi
ActionAid Association is a non-profit working across Indian states on children's education and protection, women's rights, climate justice and emergency response. Its donate page lets supporters sponsor a child or fund specific campaigns, monthly or one time.
Child care · Vidya Daan · Disaster relief
See details →Mumbai, Maharashtra
ADAPT, formerly the Spastics Society of India, works for the education, therapy and employment of children and adults with disabilities. It is based in Mumbai and promotes inclusive education.
Child care · Vidya Daan
See details →Gurugram, Haryana
ADRA India is the Indian arm of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency, with its office in Gurugram. Its work covers emergency response, education, health, livelihoods and climate resilience.
Disaster relief · Vidya Daan · Arogya Seva
See details →Bengaluru, Karnataka
Agastya International Foundation promotes hands-on science, innovation and arts learning for school children and teachers. It works through a campus, mobile labs and teacher training in many Indian states.
Vidya Daan
See details →Agewell Foundation is a not-for-profit working for the welfare and empowerment of older people across India through a volunteer network. Donors can sponsor items such as wheelchairs, walkers and monthly rations for destitute elders.
Elder care
See details →Akanksha runs English-medium schools in Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur, in partnership with government bodies, for children from underserved communities. It also supports its alumni and works with municipal schools and art education.
Vidya Daan
See details →Bengaluru, Karnataka
Akshaya Patra is a charitable trust that works with the government's school meal scheme to serve cooked meals to children in government schools and Anganwadi centres. It also runs a scholarship programme and provides food relief after disasters.
Anna Daan · Vidya Daan · Disaster relief
See details →Udaipur, Rajasthan
Animal Aid Unlimited operates a rescue and treatment centre for street animals in Udaipur. Its programmes include emergency rescue, long-term care and an animal birth control effort for dogs.
Animal care
See details →Mumbai, Maharashtra
Annamrita Foundation is a Mumbai-based food charity that says it was founded in 2004 and draws on the Indian tradition of anna daan. It serves school mid-day meals, meals linked to hospitals and several other food drives.
Anna Daan
See details →Apne Aap Women Worldwide was set up in 2002 by Ruchira Gupta and a group of women from a red-light district to end the trafficking of women and children. Donations fund schooling, food, hygiene, sports, housing and livelihood support for families in red-light areas.
Women and livelihood · Child care
See details →Madurai, Tamil Nadu
Aravind Eye Care System runs eye hospitals from Madurai and provides about half of its services free or at subsidised rates. Community donations support patient care and eye research alongside its self-funded core services.
Arogya Seva
See details →Mumbai, Maharashtra
Arpan is a Mumbai-based non-profit working on prevention of child sexual abuse in India. Its flagship programme teaches personal safety to children aged 4 to 18 in schools.
Child care
See details →New Delhi, Delhi
Azad Foundation works with women from low-income backgrounds to help them enter professions with dignity, notably through its Women with Wheels driver training programme. It also runs programmes on feminist leadership and on engaging men for gender justice.
Women and livelihood
See details →Pune, Maharashtra
BAIF is a Pune-headquartered organisation focused on sustainable rural livelihoods, covering livestock, water, agri-horti-forestry and women-led enterprise. Its donation site offers a cow-gifting programme and support for a school for tribal children in Gujarat.
Vidya Daan
See details →New Delhi, Delhi
Bal Raksha Bharat, also known as Save the Children India, has worked on child welfare since 2004 in coordination with government agencies. Its programmes cover education, health, nutrition, protection and emergency response.
Child care · Vidya Daan · Arogya Seva
See details →Kolkata, West Bengal
Bharat Sevashram Sangha is a Kolkata-headquartered charitable organisation founded by Swami Pranavananda. It runs dispensaries, hospitals and relief work, and accepts donations online and by bank transfer.
Arogya Seva · Disaster relief · Vidya Daan
See details →Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Blue Cross of India is a Chennai animal welfare organisation that rescues and treats street animals. It runs sterilisation, a hospital, shelters and adoption programmes.
Animal care
See details →Jaipur, Rajasthan
BMVSS is the organisation behind the Jaipur Foot artificial limb, based in Jaipur. It states that its limbs and other aids are provided free of cost to those who need them.
Arogya Seva
See details →CanSupport provides home-based palliative care to people with cancer and their families, free of charge. It also runs clinics, day care, a helpline and peer support.
Arogya Seva
See details →Bengaluru, Karnataka
CUPA is a Bengaluru animal welfare charity that runs a hospital, rescue centre, sterilisation centre and adoption centre. It also cares for large animals and elderly or blind dogs.
Animal care
See details →New Delhi, Delhi
Deepalaya started in 1979 with seven founding members who wanted to educate children from disadvantaged families. It now also runs programmes for women, youth and differently abled people in several states.
Vidya Daan · Child care · Women and livelihood
See details →New Delhi, Delhi
The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee manages Delhi's historic gurdwaras and charitable institutions such as hospitals and old age homes, and is headquartered at Gurdwara Rakab Ganj Sahib. Its donation page takes offerings for langar, a free dialysis centre, a dispensary and hospital services.
Anna Daan · Arogya Seva · Temple care
See details →New Delhi, Delhi
Development Alternatives is a New Delhi-based non-profit working on livelihoods, climate resilience and circular-economy solutions for rural and peri-urban communities. Its donate page focuses on women's empowerment through literacy, skills and enterprise support.
Women and livelihood · Water and environment
See details →Dignity Foundation is a non-profit that aims to help senior citizens live with dignity and security. It runs day centres, a dementia care centre and a senior citizen helpline.
Elder care
See details →The Society for Door Step School has worked since 1989 to build foundational literacy among disadvantaged children in urban slum communities of Mumbai and Pune. It uses a School on Wheels, reading programmes and digital education to reach children outside regular classrooms.
Vidya Daan
See details →Bengaluru, Karnataka
Dream a Dream works with children and young people from vulnerable backgrounds to help them thrive through life skills. It is based in Bengaluru and works with educators across several Indian states.
Vidya Daan · Child care
See details →New Delhi, Delhi
Feeding India is a nutrition charity working to end malnutrition in India, operating in association with Hunger Heroes and the Eternal General Service Foundation. It serves daily meals to children at schools and other centres and supports Anganwadis.
Anna Daan
See details →New Delhi, Delhi
Friendicoes SECA is a Delhi animal welfare group with a shelter and sanctuary. It rescues, treats and re-homes dogs, cats, horses and camels.
Animal care
See details →Ganpatipule, Maharashtra
Sansthan Shreedev Ganpatipule is the trust that runs the Ganesh temple at Ganpatipule in Ratnagiri district. Its online donation page also describes a daily prasad scheme that donors can sponsor.
Temple care · Anna Daan
See details →New Delhi, Delhi
Gauseva Foundation is a Delhi-based trust that funds fodder and medicine for cows at gaushalas it works with. Donors choose a plan that covers feed for a set number of cows and days.
Gau Seva
See details →Genesis Foundation provides financial support for heart treatment for underprivileged children with congenital heart defects. It works with families, guardians and doctors to arrange timely surgery.
Arogya Seva · Child care
See details →Jhajjar, Haryana
Gokul Dham Gau Sewa Mahatirth is a cow hospital and sanctuary in Jhajjar, Haryana. It treats injured cattle and runs an ambulance service for rescues.
Gau Seva
See details →New Delhi, Delhi
Goonj is a New Delhi-based non-profit working on development and disaster response across many Indian states. Its initiatives include Cloth for Work, School to School, Rahat disaster relief and Green by Goonj.
Disaster relief
See details →Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Gram Vikas is an Odisha-based organisation, registered in 1979, that partners with rural communities on water, sanitation, livelihoods and village institutions. It also works on education and youth, habitat and technology, and disaster response.
Water and environment · Disaster relief
See details →Jaipur, Rajasthan
Gupt Vrindavan Dham is an ISKCON-linked project in Jaipur that supports a large cow shelter at Hingoniya. It also runs food distribution seva.
Gau Seva · Anna Daan
See details →Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu
Hand in Hand India is a Tamil Nadu-based non-profit working on women's employment, child-labour elimination, access to healthcare and skills. It also runs environment programmes on natural resources and waste management and a village uplift programme.
Women and livelihood · Water and environment
See details →Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Hare Krishna Mandir at Bhadaj in Ahmedabad is run by Hare Krishna Movement Ahmedabad, a registered trust. It collects donations for free meals to the needy and temple visitors and for the care of cows at its gaushala.
Anna Daan · Gau Seva · Temple care
See details →New Delhi, Delhi
HelpAge India is a secular non-profit that works for the care and welfare of disadvantaged older people. It runs elder helplines, senior care homes and health programmes such as primary healthcare and palliative care.
Elder care · Arogya Seva
See details →Mumbai, Maharashtra
Indian Cancer Society is a voluntary non-profit national organisation working on cancer awareness, detection, treatment funding and survivorship. It states it relies on public support to help underprivileged patients.
Arogya Seva
See details →Kolkata, West Bengal
The Indian Institute of Cerebral Palsy is a Kolkata-based charitable society offering specialised services for children and adults with cerebral palsy. Its services include residential care and school services.
Child care
See details →New Delhi, Delhi
The Indian Red Cross Society is a volunteer-based humanitarian body with branches across the country. It offers relief during disasters and emergencies and supports health care for vulnerable people.
Disaster relief · Arogya Seva
See details →Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
Isha Foundation runs a donation programme from its Isha Yoga Centre near Coimbatore. Donors can give online or offline, including in-kind gifts for annadanam at the centre.
Anna Daan
See details →Bengaluru, Karnataka
ISKCON Bangalore is a Sri Radha Krishna temple in Rajajinagar that serves free lunch prasadam to visitors every day. Its donation site also takes gifts for daily annadana and for fodder for the temple's cows.
Anna Daan · Temple care · Gau Seva
See details →South Delhi, Delhi
ISKCON Delhi is a Krishna temple on Hare Krishna Hills in South Delhi whose kitchen cooks meals under its Food for Life work. Its donation pages let visitors sponsor meals, food for resident sadhus, or general welfare work.
Anna Daan · Temple care
See details →Mumbai, Maharashtra
ISKCON Food Relief is the annadan effort of ISKCON temples, cooking and delivering fresh vegetarian meals through a network of kitchens across India. Its site says the work grew sharply during the Covid lockdowns, when it fed migrant workers and frontline staff.
Anna Daan
See details →Pune, Maharashtra
ISKCON Pune is a Krishna temple in Kondhwa that runs a Food for Life programme with its own donation site. Donors can sponsor plates, meals taken to slums, old age homes, hospitals and orphanages, or prasadam at the temple.
Anna Daan · Temple care
See details →Ganiyari, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh
Jan Swasthya Sahyog is a society of health professionals providing low-cost community health care to rural and tribal people in Bilaspur district. It runs a referral hospital, village health programmes and health worker training.
Arogya Seva
See details →New Delhi, Delhi
Jeevashram is an animal welfare foundation at Rajokri in New Delhi with a veterinary hospital and boarding facility. It also runs sterilisation and vaccination drives and an adoption programme.
Animal care
See details →New Delhi, Delhi
Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation was founded by Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi to protect children from labour, trafficking and abuse. It also works on education, health and livelihoods for families.
Child care
See details →Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh
Karuna Society is a non-profit in Puttaparthi that provides veterinary care and shelter for small animals, cattle and wildlife. It also runs humane education work.
Animal care
See details →New Delhi, Delhi
Katha is a New Delhi non-profit that has promoted reading and children's literature since 1988. It runs a lab school and literacy work with government schools and communities using story-based learning.
Vidya Daan
See details →Hyderabad, Telangana
L V Prasad Eye Institute is a Hyderabad-based eye care organisation that offers clinical care, rehabilitation, training and research. Its support page says nearly half of its services are provided free of cost.
Arogya Seva
See details →New Delhi, Delhi
Literacy India is a non-profit working on education, vocational training and women's empowerment for underprivileged communities. It follows a learning-by-doing approach built on education, employability, empowerment and environment.
Vidya Daan · Women and livelihood
See details →Mumbai, Maharashtra
Magic Bus India Foundation, founded in Mumbai in 1999, works with children and young people living in poverty on life skills and employability. Its programmes help adolescents complete school and help youth find sustainable work.
Vidya Daan · Child care
See details →Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Mahila Housing Trust works with groups of women in low-income urban neighbourhoods to improve the homes and surroundings they live and work in. Its areas of work include water and sanitation, climate resilience, small loans for home improvement and disaster recovery.
Women and livelihood · Water and environment · Disaster relief
See details →Make A Difference is a volunteer-led non-profit founded in 2006 that supports children from underserved communities through mentoring. Its flagship Progression Mentoring Program accompanies children from one life stage to the next.
Child care · Vidya Daan
See details →Amritapuri is the headquarters of Amma's worldwide mission and the base of her monastic disciples. Its humanitarian activities include healthcare, education, social welfare, disaster relief and nature care.
Arogya Seva · Vidya Daan · Disaster relief
See details →New Delhi, Delhi
Mobile Creches has run early childhood programmes for children of working parents since 1969. Its creches provide nutrition, health care, early learning and parenting support.
Child care · Vidya Daan
See details →Mumbai, Maharashtra
Project Nanhi Kali supports the education of underprivileged girls in India and was started in 1996 at the K.C. Mahindra Education Trust. Donors can sponsor a girl's schooling or raise funds through their own campaigns.
Vidya Daan
See details →Udaipur, Rajasthan
Narayan Seva Sansthan is a charitable trust based in Udaipur that supports persons with disabilities. It provides corrective surgery, artificial limbs and aids, and runs an academy for children.
Arogya Seva · Child care · Vidya Daan
See details →Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
Pallium India is a palliative care organisation based in Thiruvananthapuram that supports patients and families facing serious illness. It also works on training and policy for access to pain relief.
Arogya Seva
See details →Pardada Pardadi Educational Society educates and supports rural girls and women around Anupshahr in Uttar Pradesh. Its programmes cover schooling, health and hygiene, community development and economic empowerment.
Vidya Daan · Women and livelihood
See details →New Delhi, Delhi
People For Animals is a national animal welfare organisation headquartered in New Delhi, with units across the country. It runs on public donations, including sponsorships that fund food and care for rescued animals.
Animal care
See details →New Delhi, Delhi
Plan India is a New Delhi-based non-profit working for children's rights and equality for girls. Its work areas include schooling, safety of girls, youth livelihoods, health and nutrition, and climate and humanitarian response.
Child care · Vidya Daan · Disaster relief
See details →New Delhi, Delhi
PRADAN works with poor rural households, especially women's collectives and farmer producer groups, to raise incomes in underserved parts of India. Gender equality, nutrition and ecological restoration are part of its stated aims.
Women and livelihood
See details →Pratham is a large Indian education non-profit that began in Mumbai in 1995 with the aim of getting every child into school and learning well. It runs programmes for early and elementary years, second-chance schooling and youth skilling, often alongside state and district governments.
Vidya Daan
See details →Belur, West Bengal
Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission are twin monastic and service organisations headquartered at Belur Math in Howrah, West Bengal. Donors can fund temple worship and monastic upkeep, or relief, rural welfare and other social service work.
Disaster relief · Temple care
See details →Pune, Maharashtra
RESQ Charitable Trust is a Pune non-profit that rescues and rehabilitates animals in distress. It also works on human-wildlife conflict and community education.
Animal care
See details →New Delhi, Delhi
Salaam Baalak Trust has supported street and working children in Delhi since 1988. It runs shelters and residential homes alongside education and other child-centred programmes.
Child care · Vidya Daan
See details →Sankara Nethralaya is an eye hospital in Chennai that accepts donations towards surgeries and outreach. Its donation page lists named schemes with minimum amounts for cataract and other eye surgeries, mobile camps and school eye screening.
Arogya Seva
See details →Bengaluru, Karnataka
SayTrees is an environmental trust in Bengaluru that grew out of a volunteer group formed in 2007. It plants trees and restores water bodies across India and involves local communities in the work.
Water and environment
See details →New Delhi, Delhi
SEEDS began in 1994 and helps communities prepare for, withstand and recover from disasters and climate impacts. Donations fund preparedness, emergency response, school safety and rebuilding work.
Disaster relief
See details →Udaipur, Rajasthan
Seva Mandir is a rural development organisation from Udaipur in Rajasthan, working mostly with tribal villages. It runs programmes in schooling, women's empowerment, early childcare, natural resources and livelihoods.
Vidya Daan · Women and livelihood · Water and environment
See details →Amritsar, Punjab
The SGPC is the Sikh gurdwara management committee based in the Sri Darbar Sahib complex in Amritsar. Its donation page takes daswandh for its religious work and separately for Sachkhand Sri Harmandir Sahib.
Temple care
See details →Mumbai, Maharashtra
Shree Siddhivinayak Ganapati Temple Trust manages the Siddhivinayak temple at Prabhadevi in Mumbai, which its website says was first consecrated in 1801. Its donation page explains how to give by hundi, cheque, demand draft, card or net banking.
Temple care
See details →Prabhas Patan, Gujarat
Shree Somnath Trust runs the Somnath temple at Prabhas Patan in the Gir Somnath district of Gujarat. Its website takes online donations, pooja vidhi bookings and gifts towards guest-house rooms.
Temple care
See details →Pune, Maharashtra
Shreemant Dagdusheth Halwai Ganpati Trust runs a well-known Ganpati temple in Pune and a set of social projects. Since 2013 it has supplied daily meals to patients at Sassoon General Hospital, and it also supports students, an old age home and free ambulance service.
Anna Daan · Vidya Daan · Arogya Seva · Elder care
See details →Indore, Madhya Pradesh
This sanstha runs an old-age ashram for abandoned elders and a cattle sanctuary. It also offers food seva and other community services.
Gau Seva · Elder care · Anna Daan
See details →Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
Shri Kashi Vishwanath Temple Trust runs the official portal of the Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi. Its donation options include an Annakshetra fund for free food, and volunteers can sign up to serve water, food and other tasks.
Anna Daan · Temple care
See details →Rajpara, Bhavnagar, Gujarat
Shri Khodiyar Mandir Trust looks after the Khodiyar Ma temple at Rajpara near Bhavnagar, which was built under the Bhavnagar princely rulers. The trust also runs a food service, free medical services and pilgrim rest houses.
Temple care · Anna Daan · Arogya Seva
See details →Dharmasthala, Karnataka
Shri Kshetra Dharmasthala is the temple institution around Sri Manjunatha Swamy Temple in Karnataka, which offers free meals to visiting pilgrims. Its E-Kanike page takes donations to the temple by bank transfer, UPI and other online routes.
Anna Daan · Temple care
See details →Katra, Jammu and Kashmir
The Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board administers the holy cave shrine and pilgrim facilities at Katra in Jammu and Kashmir. Its website explains how devotees can donate at counters, by cheque or draft, through Paytm or by bank transfer.
Temple care
See details →Shirdi, Maharashtra
Shree Saibaba Sansthan Trust manages the Sai Baba temple and pilgrim services at Shirdi in Maharashtra. Its donation page lists funds for free meals, medical care, education and building maintenance.
Anna Daan · Arogya Seva · Vidya Daan · Temple care
See details →Sightsavers India works with partners in underserved areas to prevent avoidable blindness and promote equal opportunity for people with disabilities. Its work spans eye health, inclusive education and social inclusion.
Arogya Seva
See details →New Delhi, Delhi
Smile Foundation, established in 2002, is an Indian development organisation running projects in education, healthcare, livelihood and women's empowerment. Its work reaches villages and urban slums across many states.
Vidya Daan · Arogya Seva · Women and livelihood · Disaster relief
See details →Smile Train India supports cleft treatment for patients from economically weaker families through partner hospitals across the country. It is part of the international Smile Train organisation.
Arogya Seva · Child care
See details →Ahmednagar, Maharashtra
Snehalaya is an Ahmednagar-based non-profit working for women and children facing exploitation and inequality, with projects across Ahmednagar district. Its work spans healthcare, education, rehabilitation and awareness.
Child care · Arogya Seva · Vidya Daan
See details →Hyderabad, Telangana
Sparsh Hospice is a palliative care centre in Hyderabad run as a project of the Rotary Club of Banjara Hills Charitable Trust. It states that its services are provided without cost and funded by donations.
Arogya Seva
See details →Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Sri Ramakrishna Math in Mylapore, Chennai, says it has served society for over a century through health, education, publishing, cultural and relief work. Its donation site lets donors support specific monthly needs, including girls' education and women's welfare.
Vidya Daan · Arogya Seva · Disaster relief
See details →Mumbai, Maharashtra
Swades Foundation is a community-driven non-profit working to lift rural families out of poverty, headquartered in Mumbai. Its holistic model covers water and sanitation, health, education and livelihoods.
Vidya Daan · Arogya Seva · Water and environment
See details →Mumbai, Maharashtra
Teach For India places talented graduates and young professionals as full-time teachers in under-resourced classrooms through a fellowship. Its alumni network then works at different levels of the education system.
Vidya Daan
See details →Chennai, Tamil Nadu
The Banyan supports people living in homelessness with mental health conditions, starting from a first home for homeless women opened in 1993. It offers emergency care, supported housing, community mental health services and livelihoods.
Arogya Seva
See details →Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh
Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams runs the Sri Venkateswara temple at Tirumala and several donation-funded trusts. Its Annaprasadam Trust, begun in 1985 as an annadanam scheme, serves free meals to pilgrims every day from donor funds.
Anna Daan · Temple care
See details →New Delhi, Delhi
Udayan Care is a public charitable trust founded in 1994 that works for the rights and welfare of children and youth. Its work includes family-based alternative care, girls' education, skilling and advocacy.
Child care · Vidya Daan
See details →Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Vidya Sagar is a Chennai organisation that began as a branch of the Spastic Society of India and serves people with disabilities. Its services include a day school, community-based rehabilitation and programmes for adults.
Child care · Vidya Daan
See details →Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
Visakha SPCA is an animal welfare organisation in Visakhapatnam. It runs a shelter and ambulance service, sterilises dogs and cats, and protects wildlife such as sea turtles and cobras.
Animal care
See details →Vivekananda Kendra is a service organisation based at Kanyakumari that invites public contributions to its work. Its donation page offers patron schemes and funds for child education, general activities and construction.
Vidya Daan · Child care · Arogya Seva
See details →Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh
Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir is a large Krishna temple project in Vrindavan run by Hare Krishna Movement Vrindavan, a registered charitable trust. Its annadan programme feeds sadhus, widows and pilgrims, and it also cares for cows.
Anna Daan · Gau Seva · Temple care
See details →Wildlife SOS rescues and rehabilitates wild animals in India, including elephants, bears, leopards and reptiles. It also works on conservation and community outreach.
Animal care
See details →Noida, Uttar Pradesh
Wildlife Trust of India is a conservation organisation based in Noida with work across many Indian states. Its programmes cover wildlife rescue, elephant corridors, species recovery and human-wildlife conflict.
Animal care
See details →New Delhi, Delhi
WWF-India is a conservation non-profit based in New Delhi that works on protecting wildlife, rivers and wetlands, and tackling climate change. Its donate page offers general giving and appeals for tigers, snow leopards, water bodies and anti-wildlife-trade work.
Water and environment
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