Knowledge guide · Funding for NGOs
How NGOs can get CSR funding
Companies spent ₹34,908.75 crore on CSR in 2023-24, and much of it reaches people through NGOs. Here is what makes an NGO eligible, what a company needs from …
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Knowledge guide · Funding for NGOs
Finding the right CSR partner
The best CSR partners are found by research, not mass emails. Companies publish a lot about their CSR. Here is where to find it, how to read it …
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Knowledge guide · Funding for NGOs
Writing a CSR proposal that gets read
A good CSR proposal answers the questions a company’s CSR committee must settle before it can approve a project. Here is the structure, section by section, with the …
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Knowledge guide · Funding for NGOs
The documents CSR teams will ask for
Before it funds you, a company’s CSR team will ask for a set of documents and check them against public records. Here is the full list, why each …
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Knowledge guide · People and safeguarding
Employee volunteering: what counts as CSR and how to run it
Companies are encouraged to involve their people in CSR, but the hours employees give can’t be valued and counted towards the 2% obligation. Here is what the rules …
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Knowledge guide · ESG and the wider sector
CSR and the Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals give CSR teams and NGOs a shared language for what they are trying to change. Here is how India tracks the goals, how Schedule …
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Knowledge guide · ESG and the wider sector
The Social Stock Exchange, explained for NGOs and CSR teams
… May 2026, companies can put part of their CSR into them.
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Knowledge guide · CSR law
What is the Companies Act, 2013?
The Companies Act, 2013 is the law every Indian company lives under, from the day it is formed to the day it closes. Here is how the Act …
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Knowledge guide · CSR law
Section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013, clause by clause
Section 135 is India’s CSR law in nine sub-sections. Here is what each one says, in plain words, what it means for a company in practice, and when …
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Knowledge guide · CSR law
Spending more than required: setting off the excess
A company that spends more than its CSR obligation can use the excess to reduce what it must spend later, within limits. Here is how set-off works, what …
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Knowledge guide · Foreign funding (FCRA)
Who counts as a foreign source under the FCRA?
… currency or the bank. Here is how the law treats companies, people and international bodies, what is settled, and what still needs advice.
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Knowledge guide · Impact and reporting
Needs assessment: start with the community
The CSR Rules don’t make it compulsory, but the annual action plan must include ‘details of need and impact assessment, if any’ (Rule 5(2)), and many funders expect …
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Knowledge guide · Impact and reporting
BRSR: the sustainability report listed companies file
… BRSR Core is checked, and how NGOs and CSR teams can use it.
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Knowledge guide · Tax for NGOs
Corpus, anonymous and other special donations
… 30%, and gifts in kind, foreign money and CSR funds each come with their own conditions.
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Knowledge guide · Tax for NGOs
GST for NGOs
… what the charitable-activities exemption covers, how donations, grants, CSR money, sponsorship, sales, fees and rent are treated, input tax credit and the September 2025 rate changes, with worked …
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Knowledge guide · Tax for NGOs
TDS: what NGOs must deduct and deposit
… the Societies Registration Act, 1860 or a corresponding law, any trust and any company (Section 402(11)). For rent and professional fees, the payer is a “specified person”, which …
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Knowledge guide · Funding for NGOs
Budgeting a proposal: costs, overheads and tranches
A proposal’s budget is where a CSR team tests whether your plan is real. Here is how to cost a project honestly, what companies usually ask about overheads, …
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Knowledge guide · Funding for NGOs
Reporting to funders: progress reports and utilisation certificates
A CSR funder needs your reports to meet its own legal duties, from its chief financial officer’s certificate to its year-end transfers. Here is what to report, when …
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Knowledge guide · ESG and the wider sector
ESG explained for the social sector
… is what it means, how it differs from CSR and why it matters to NGOs.
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Knowledge guide · Starting an NGO
What is an NGO? Non-profits in India explained
… and each is set up under a different law.
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