About
To address India's development challenges and to nurture the arts, culture and heritage, including through world-class cultural infrastructure.
Reliance Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Reliance Industries, chaired by Nita Ambani, working across education, health, rural transformation, sports and the arts. Its most visible cultural contribution is the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (NMACC), inaugurated in Mumbai in 2023 as part of the Jio World Centre, a multi-venue cultural complex with a grand theatre, studio theatre and art spaces that hosts Indian and international performing-arts productions, exhibitions and public installations, and has quickly become one of India's most prominent new cultural venues.
Reliance Foundation developed its cultural work alongside its wider development mission, culminating in the opening of the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre in 2023, a large purpose-built cultural complex in Mumbai. NMACC's programming, from The Great Indian Musical to international productions and major art exhibitions, together with the Foundation's support for artists and heritage, marked Reliance as a significant new force in Indian cultural patronage, bringing large-scale cultural infrastructure and global productions to Indian audiences.
Visit & Access
NMACC (Grand Theatre, Studio Theatre, The Cube, Art House) is open to the public at the Jio World Centre, Mumbai.
Founding & Leadership
Nita M. Ambani serves as Founder-Chairperson of Reliance Foundation and personally drives its arts and culture agenda, most visibly through the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (NMACC), named for her directly. She resigned from the Reliance Industries board in August 2023 but retains the Foundation chairpersonship. Her broader institutional footprint includes an honorary trusteeship at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and membership of the International Olympic Committee, reflecting a global-institution and sports-weighted network rather than deep integration into India's domestic cultural-philanthropy circuit.
Solely funded by Reliance Industries Ltd CSR (single-parent corporate)
Founder-led; Reliance Foundation Board (Nita Ambani, Chairperson)
Leadership & Trustees
Initiatives & Portfolio
Flagship multidisciplinary cultural centre - Grand Theatre, Studio Theatre, The Cube, Art House - Jio World Centre, Mumbai.
Traditional crafts revival and artisan marketplace spanning 108+ crafts and 30+ artforms nationwide.
Rs 35 crore Reliance Foundation share of a Rs 200 crore restoration, co-funded with the Kolkata Municipal Corporation.
Cultural Funding
Cultural verticals
Impact & Metrics
Partnerships & Network
Partner institutions
Government partners
Funders & patrons
Credentials & Compliance
CSR-eligible · Schedule VII(v) - art & culture
Statutory CSR of Reliance Industries Ltd, routed through Reliance Foundation.
Recognition
Operates NMACC - India's most visible private cultural centre; first benchmark funder to disclose a culture-segment CSR figure.
Reliance Foundation is a major contemporary patron of the arts in India, notable above all for the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre, one of the country's most significant new cultural venues.
[Atlas Perspective] Profiled as an Institution with the role of Funder in the Cultural Philanthropy field. Reliance Foundation funds and operates the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre and supports the performing and visual arts, connecting it as a funder and operator to the arts ecosystem. It is chaired by Nita Ambani.