What donors, CSR teams, and grant makers ask us.

Nikhaar Foundation is a nonprofit organisation based in Delhi, India, working on water conservation, clean air, and the education and welfare of children in the city's underserved neighbourhoods. It was founded by Shivam Sood.

Delhi. Our programmes have run in settlements including Indira Gandhi Camp in Kasturba Nagar, with campaigns run in association with the Delhi Police.

Yes. Nikhaar Foundation is registered under Section 12A of the Income Tax Act, 1961, which confirms its charitable status; under Section 80G, which makes donations tax deductible for Indian donors; and under CSR-1 with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, registration number CSR00107287, which lets companies route mandated CSR spending to us.

Nikhaar Foundation was founded by Shivam Sood, who continues to serve as its founder and is directly reachable for anyone considering funding the work.

Yes. Nikhaar Foundation is registered under Section 80G of the Income Tax Act, 1961, so donations from Indian taxpayers are eligible for deduction. Our 80G URN is AAGCN8863PF20241 and our PAN is AAGCN8863P, both of which appear on the receipt.

The fastest way is UPI to info at nikhaarfoundation.org or, more usefully, to the UPI ID published on our support page. You can also transfer by NEFT or IMPS to our IndusInd Bank current account. Both routes are listed at /support with copy buttons for the account number and IFSC.

Email the transaction reference and your full name, PAN, and address to info@nikhaarfoundation.org after paying. We issue a digitally signed 80G receipt, usually within two working days, carrying our 80G URN AAGCN8863PF20241.

Yes, and we prefer it. Regular giving lets us commit to work before the money is in hand. Set up a UPI mandate or a bank standing instruction and email us so we can issue receipts on schedule.

Yes, and we prefer it for larger contributions. Tell us which of our four programmes interests you and the scale you are considering, and we will come back with a costed proposal for a specific piece of work in a specific settlement.

Please write to us before making a contribution from outside India so we can confirm the correct route under current regulations.

Yes. We hold CSR-1 registration with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, registration number CSR00107287. Contributions from a qualifying company count toward the mandated CSR spending under Section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013.

The registration certificate under CSR-1, PAN, the 12A and 80G certificates, an organisation profile, a costed project proposal, and, after implementation, a written utilisation report. We can also provide bank details, audited financials, and copies of past project reports on request.

We do not set a hard minimum. We do think in terms of specific deliverables, so we would rather have a conversation about a scoped project than about a number in the abstract.

We report the intervention we delivered, where, and for how many people. Photographs are from the work itself. We do not extrapolate outputs into speculative outcomes.

Four things: water conservation and access, children's education and welfare, clean air and environment, and civic awareness campaigns. All of them are run in Delhi's underserved neighbourhoods.

Our clearest deliverable to date is a community water pump funded, installed, and handed over to residents of Indira Gandhi Camp in Kasturba Nagar, giving roughly 3,000 people water at their doorstep. Full case study at /impact.

We count named beneficiaries in named places where we can, and where we cannot, we report the intervention rather than converting activity into a larger sounding number. We do not extrapolate a physical intervention into speculative downstream outcomes we did not measure.

Not because small is inherently better. Small is useful when it means the distance between your contribution and the ground is short, the overhead is low, and you can be told exactly what your money paid for. Nikhaar is deliberately small for those reasons.

Yes. Copies of the 12A, 80G, and CSR-1 certificates, PAN, and audited accounts are available on request. Write to info@nikhaarfoundation.org and we will send them.

Through a combination of individual donations from Indian taxpayers claiming Section 80G deduction and, where scoped project proposals fit, corporate CSR contributions under CSR-1.

Volunteers on drive days are always useful. Professional help with design, legal, and accounting is genuinely useful. Introductions to CSR teams are the most useful of all.