About
To help preserve certain cultural forms and dying arts of India, alongside broader CSR commitments in education, healthcare, environment and gender, implemented through self-identified programmes rather than open grant applications.
Corporate CSR foundation of Infosys Limited; among its focus areas, helps preserve cultural forms and dying arts of India.
Infosys Foundation was established in 1996 as the corporate social responsibility arm of Infosys Limited. A dedicated internal team identifies and selects the Foundation's own programmes rather than accepting unsolicited proposals or donations, and the Foundation itself has publicly warned of fraudulent correspondence impersonating it, a notice worth knowing for anyone reaching out on its behalf. Within a broader CSR portfolio (Infosys reported roughly Rs 628 crore in global CSR spending in FY25), the Foundation names 'National Heritage, Art and Culture' as a stated Schedule VII focus area in its FY2024-25 CSR Annual Action Plan, describing its cultural mandate as helping 'preserve certain cultural forms and dying arts of India.' Its documented cultural grants and partnerships are geographically concentrated in Karnataka (particularly Dharwad and coastal Karnataka), with additional work in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Telangana, and span heritage restoration (the Someshwara Archaeological Complex and 14 other heritage structures), folk arts (establishing a Yakshagana Gombeyata puppetry academy with the Uppinakudru Sri Devanna Padmanabha Kamath Memorial Trust), classical music (grants to Bengaluru's Sree Ramaseva Mandali and a corpus fund honouring Ustad Bale Saheb in Dharwad), literature (publishing a six-volume complete works of Kannada writer Galaganath, and co-publishing 'Embroidering Futures' with the India Foundation for the Arts), theatre (supporting the play Maya Bazaar at Bengaluru's Ranga Shankara), and a 2017 partnership with Sahapedia to digitise and disseminate Indian cultural knowledge.
Initiatives & Portfolio
Plus 14 other heritage structures.
With the Uppinakudru Sri Devanna Padmanabha Kamath Memorial Trust.
Bengaluru.
Dharwad.
Six-volume Kannada publication, Manohar Grantha Mala.
Infosys Foundation's cultural funding is notable for its geographic concentration and its explicit focus on endangered or declining traditions, framed by the Foundation itself as preserving 'dying arts,' distinct from funders oriented toward major institutions or headline events. Worth flagging directly: the Foundation's FY2025-26 CSR Action Plan headlines Education, Health, Environment and Gender as primary categories, with culture appearing to fold into a residual 'Others' category rather than being named explicitly as it was in FY2024-25, a pattern worth monitoring for whether it reflects a genuine relative de-emphasis of cultural funding or simply a documentation change; this is inconclusive without underlying spend data, which the Foundation does not publicly disclose per project. Two heritage projects sometimes attributed to Infosys in casual reporting, Digital Hampi and the Kamalapur/Hampi ASI Museum revitalisation, were deliberately excluded from this profile: Digital Hampi is a Government of India/DST project, and Infosys Foundation's funding role in the Hampi museum project is not confirmed in available sources. These should not be attributed to Infosys Foundation without further verification.