End-to-end delivery for corporate partners — designed, executed, measured and documented to a standard your board and your auditor can rely on.
THE CSR LANDSCAPE
India Inc spent ₹40,794 crore on CSR in FY 2024-25 — up 17% in a year
Education and healthcare together take more than half of every CSR rupee — the two areas ACS Foundation delivers in directly.
TOTAL CSR SPEND, ₹ CRORE
24,966FY19-20
26,211FY20-21
27,141FY21-22
30,932FY22-23
34,909FY23-24
40,794FY24-25
WHERE IT WENT, FY 2024-25
Education — ₹13,877 cr · 34%
Healthcare — ₹8,531 cr · 21%
Environment — ₹3,397 cr · 8%
Livelihood + rural — ₹5,025 cr · 12%
All other Schedule VII heads · 25%
FY2019-20 to FY2023-24: Ministry of Corporate Affairs, reported to Lok Sabha, August 2025.
FY2024-25: Fulcrum, Bharat CSR Performance Report 2026, analysing MCA National CSR Portal data.
Why it matters
A corporate CSR team carries real accountability: Schedule VII compliance, proof of utilisation, and a BRSR disclosure that a parent company or global board will read — mandatory for the top 1,000 listed entities since FY 2022-23. Most implementation partners hand back photographs and a thank-you letter. That is not evidence, and a finance team cannot sign against it.
How we help it happen
Programme design costed line by line before commitment
Government and institutional approvals handled by us
Delivery by our own staff and vendors — not a pass-through
Baseline and endline measurement built into every programme
Utilisation certificates, bills, registers and photo logs
BRSR-ready disclosure your parent company can use as-is
OUR EXPERIENCE
CSR funds administered
₹5.46 crore received and accounted for in FY 2025-26, per audited accounts
Audit
Independently audited every year; the annual report is public
Registrations
Registered public charitable trust · 12A and 80G · MCA CSR-1 (CSR00000316)
Corporate partners
Jabra Connect India Pvt Ltd and a US-based corporate partner
Reporting standard
Beneficiary-level data — every figure traceable to a register
THE NATIONAL PICTURE
CSR in India: where ₹40,794 crore went in FY 2024-25
CSR spending has grown every year since it became a statutory obligation, and now exceeds ₹2.61 lakh crore cumulatively since 2013. Understanding where it concentrates — by cause and by state — is the starting point for designing a programme that adds something rather than duplicating it.
₹40,794 cr
TOTAL CSR SPEND, FY 2024-25
+17%
GROWTH OVER FY 2023-24
29,546
COMPANIES CONTRIBUTING
72,233
PROJECTS IMPLEMENTED, +21%
Where the money goes
Allocation by cause, FY 2024-25
Education
Schools, scholarships, digital learning
₹13,877 cr34%
Healthcare
Hospitals, camps, nutrition, sanitation
₹8,531 cr21%
Environmental sustainability
Fastest-growing head, +40% year on year
₹3,397 cr8%
Livelihood enhancement
Skilling, employability, enterprise
₹2,548 cr6%
Rural development
Infrastructure and community assets
₹2,477 cr6%
Government funds
PM CARES, Swachh Bharat Kosh and similar
₹943 cr2%
Where the money lands
Top five states by CSR received, FY 2024-25 · the top ten states now take 74% of all CSR, up from 61%
Maharashtra
₹8,631 cr21%
Gujarat
₹4,549 cr+68% YoY
Karnataka
₹3,395 crour home state
Delhi
₹2,753 cr
Tamil Nadu
₹2,738 cr
Sources: Ministry of Corporate Affairs, National CSR Portal (FY2019-20 to FY2023-24 totals, reported to Lok Sabha, August 2025); Fulcrum, Bharat CSR Performance Report 2026, analysing MCA National CSR Portal data (FY2024-25 totals, sector and state splits, company and project counts).
ALIGNMENT
Where our work lands on the global goals
Every programme is mapped to the Sustainable Development Goals at design stage and reported against the same mapping at closure — the alignment in this brochure is the alignment in your disclosure.
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Good Health & Well-being
School health camps: blood grouping, vision, ENT, dental and paediatric screening with treatment follow-up
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Quality Education
Smart classrooms, teacher capability building, STEM and career-readiness in government schools
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Gender Equality
Water and sanitation that keeps girl students in school; women's enterprise and empowerment
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Clean Water & Sanitation
Borewell recharge, rainwater harvesting and lake rejuvenation for year-round water
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Affordable & Clean Energy
Student-built solar bulbs giving households a light source through power cuts
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Decent Work & Growth
Employability training, certification, livelihoods and enterprise creation
9
Industry & Innovation
AI, coding and robotics exposure; digital learning infrastructure; tech-led enterprise
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Reduced Inequalities
Underserved, rural and Tier 2/3 communities and first-generation learners
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Sustainable Cities
Lake rejuvenation and local resource security in peri-urban and rural settlements
13
Climate Action
Groundwater restoration and community awareness on water and climate
15
Life on Land
Ecosystem revival and plantation on school and community land
17
Partnerships for the Goals
End-to-end CSR delivery with corporates, government and community institutions
Environmental
Water stewardship, groundwater restoration, resource conservation, clean energy and climate resilience — with site-level, dated evidence suitable for disclosure.
Social
Education, child health, employability, entrepreneurship, women's empowerment and digital inclusion — reported at beneficiary level, with baseline and endline data.
Governance
Registered trust with independent annual audit, utilisation certificates, transparent impact measurement and BRSR-ready reporting.
PARTNER WITH US
Deploy your CSR — end to end.
HOW AN ENGAGEMENT RUNS
A typical 12-month CSR programme, phase by phase
Indicative. Scope, duration and budget are set with you at design stage — a three-month pilot follows the same seven phases, compressed.
Phase
M1M2M3M4M5M6M7M8M9M10M11M12
1 · Scoping & design
Need assessment, site selection, costed proposal, Schedule VII mapping
M1–M2
2 · Approvals & MoU
Government, DDPI and school permissions; agreement signed; funds released
M2–M3
3 · Baseline assessment
Every beneficiary scored before anything is delivered — the number your endline is measured against
M3
4 · On-ground delivery
Classroom sessions, construction or health camps, run by our own staff and vendors
M4–M9
5 · Monitoring & site visits
Dated photo logs, attendance registers, monthly notes, volunteering days for your team
M4–M11
6 · Endline & impact analysis
Beneficiaries re-scored against baseline; the change is quantified, not asserted
Most CSR programmes involve a strategy consultant, an implementation NGO, a vendor and a reporting agency. We are all four, which is why nothing falls between them.
ONE PARTNER, SEVEN CAPABILITIES
You approve. We execute. You get the evidence.
ACSFOUNDATIONEND TO END
CSR strategy & advisory
Schedule VII fit, theme selection, budgeting
Programme design
Curriculum, engineering, costing
Government liaison
Permissions, DDPI and school approvals
On-ground execution
Our staff, our vendors, our accountability
Employee volunteering
Saturday site days your team can join
Impact measurement
Baseline, endline, beneficiary-level data
ESG & BRSR reporting
Disclosure your parent can use as-is
Complete accountability
Bills, UCs, photographs, audited books
WHAT YOU RECEIVE
Documentation at every stage, not just at the end
Everything below is standard on every ACS programme, whatever its size.
