About
To make grants and implement projects across arts research, practice, education, archives and community.
Independent nationwide arts grant-maker and implementer; intermediary re-granter; the densest cross-funder node.
The India Foundation for the Arts is the database's convergence hub and a new structural archetype: the intermediary re-granter. It sits in the middle of the funding chain - receiving from a stack of 15+ funders upstream (Ford, Tata Trusts, Infosys Foundation, Rockefeller, Goethe-Institut, BNP Paribas, Sony Pictures Fund, Citi, Godrej, Bajaj, and individual patrons) and granting and implementing projects for artists downstream. Dual tax-exempt (80G India + 501(c)(3) USA) and FCRA-registered, it is the concrete mechanism by which foreign cultural money legally reaches Indian practitioners.
Founding & Leadership
Professional ED + national Board of Trustees
Leadership & Trustees
Initiatives & Portfolio
Research at the interface of practice and scholarship (sponsor: BNP Paribas India).
Experimental practice - Productions, Explorations, Workshops-Residencies, Seminars.
Arts-based teacher training in government schools; national arts-integrated school projects.
Energising archives and museums (Bihar Museum, Tulu Museum, Conflictorium, Chandernagore College Museum).
Bengaluru-specific neighbourhood arts engagements (≤ ₹5,00,000; sponsors: Sony Pictures Fund + BNP Paribas).
Cultural Funding
Cultural verticals
Impact & Metrics
Partnerships & Network
Partner institutions
Funders & patrons
Credentials & Compliance
CSR-eligible · Schedule VII(v) - receives CSR + 80G + foreign (FCRA) funding
A CSR/80G/FCRA receptacle that re-grants to artists.
Recognition
The densest cross-funder node in the database; the most accessible funder for individual artists; the FCRA conduit for foreign cultural money.
[Atlas Assessment] For an individual artist or researcher, IFA is the single most actionable funder in the database. Every barrier other funders impose, it removes: open RFPs (no self-identification needed), submissions in any Indian language, proposal-development help (send a draft in text, audio or video before applying), and IFA implements the project so the artist isn't left managing grant logistics. It is the gold-standard Artist-Atlas funder and should be the first match for an artist user.
IFA is taxonomically omnivorous - by aggregating 15+ funders it touches nearly the whole 12-domain taxonomy (classical, folk, experimental, digital, language-work, museums, education). For Culture Atlas it is strategically central: it is both an Institution-Atlas anchor and the funder an artist user should be matched to first.