Environment NGOs in India

16 Doddi Trust

Bengaluru trust founded by Vishala Padmanabhan working on women's empowerment, youth leadership, and climate-resilient agroecology.

Close to 1,500 farmers participated in PGS-India organic farming trainings and cluster activities in 2024-25,

Aadivasi Welfare Foundation

Afforestation, water-body revival and tribal livelihoods across eight Indian states

over 8 million trees planted

Aahwahan Foundation

Runs education, health, plantation and beach-clean programmes across India.

Aahwahan as a flag bearer of this beautiful initiative has planted more than 6825 plants till date.

Aaranyak

Biodiversity conservation in Northeast India

35 total projects

AARDE Foundation

Chennai trust conserving Pulicat Lagoon's natural and built heritage since 2007.

Abhipsa Foundation (GuruJal)

Runs GuruJal, an integrated water-management initiative reviving Gurugram's ponds and wells.

In FY 2024-25, GuruJal reached 5 cities pan-India, running 30+ programmes with 100+ partners and 100% audited

Accion Fraterna Ecology Centre

Watershed development and drought-resilient farming in Anantapur district.

Total Extent of land treated in Hectars 174852

Action for Protection of Wild Animals (APOWA)

Community-led animal welfare and mangrove and coastal ecosystem restoration in Odisha.

100000+ animals rescued, provided relief during natural disasters

Adamya Chetana

Serves hot mid-day meals to over 2 lakh schoolchildren daily from zero-garbage green kitchens.

73+ crore meals served till date

AFPRO (Action for Food Production)

Socio-technical support organisation building water security, watersheds and sustainable livelihoods for rural India

200,000 villages across 256 districts in 20 states

Agro Rangers

Regenerative agroforestry helping small and marginal farmers restore drought-hit soil near Pune

1,200+ farmers trained and 40,000+ saplings planted through agroforestry programs across Maharashtra

Akshar Foundation

Runs the Akshar Forum school in Guwahati where children pay their fees in plastic waste.

All India Disaster Mitigation Institute (AIDMI)

Disaster risk reduction and climate resilience across South Asia

AIDMI has worked in different areas of disaster management... covering 65 cities and 86 districts.

All India Women's Conference

National women's organisation working on education, rights and rural energy

Founded the All India Women's Education Fund Association (1929), which established Lady Irwin College, New Del

Alliance of Indian Wastepickers

National coalition of waste-picker organisations across India

Organizations/members of the alliance represent more than 100000 waste-pickers and other informal waste-picker

Andaman Nicobar Environment Team (ANET)

Marine and island research driving conservation across the Andaman archipelago since 1993

This programme enabled the first batch of 15 students from across India to delve into the physical and theoret

Animal Warriors Conservation Society

Hyderabad society running animal rescue, wildlife rehabilitation, marine conservation and disaster-relief response.

788 animals, 1,262 birds and 128 wildlife rescued in 2024-25

Anthill Creations

Builds low-cost playgrounds for children using scrap tyres and industrial waste.

514 Playgrounds Built

Applied Environmental Research Foundation (AERF)

Grassroots biodiversity conservation in the Western Ghats since 1995

13,000 acres of threatened privately owned terrestrial forests brought under conservation agreements

Arghyam

Shaping safe, sustainable groundwater and drinking-water systems across India

11.7 million people reached

Arulagam

Nature, people, prosperity — bringing vultures back to Tamil Nadu's skies

25 years of work protecting biodiversity, conserving endangered vultures and empowering indigenous communities

Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE)

Research-driven conservation and sustainable development across India

1,67,000+ hectares of forest rights secured

Avani

Reviving traditional craft and clean energy livelihoods in the Kumaon Himalayas

2,200+ artisans and farmers benefited through its rural enterprise model since inception

Babul Films Society

Hyderabad society running the Babul Environmental Film Festival to build climate and ecological awareness through youth filmmaking.

Balipara Foundation

Assam foundation restoring Eastern Himalayan forests through community-led Naturenomics.

6.72 million trees planted across 5,537 hectares by 2024

Barefoot College

Training rural women as solar engineers and community leaders

Solar-engineer training for rural women spanning 90+ countries

Bharat Clean Rivers Foundation

Restoring India's rivers, lakes and wetlands from plastic pollution

60,000 parents involved and 30,000 students engaged through the Clean Water Challenge 2025

Bhumi

One of India's largest youth volunteer non-profits

150,000+ volunteers engaged

Bombay Environmental Action Group (BEAG)

Environmental advocacy, litigation and heritage conservation since 1979

Bombay Natural History Society

One of India's oldest wildlife research and conservation bodies

142 years of nature research and conservation (founded 1883)

Bosco Reach Out

Integral development work with marginalised communities in Northeast India.

Enabling 20,000+ children with access to quality education

C.P.R. Environmental Education Centre (CPREEC)

Excellence in environmental education

Surveyed more than 10,000 sacred groves and restored 53 over three decades

Care Earth Trust

Biodiversity conservation research and advocacy in Tamil Nadu

Restoration of the 300-acre Vengathur Wetland underway; 841 metres of its West-to-East canal restored, widened

Care For Air

Awareness, advocacy and change for clean air in India

Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP)

Research think tank bridging science, technology and public policy for sustainable development

20+ years of impactful research

Central Himalayan Environment Association (CHEA)

Himalayan climate, livelihoods and environment research group in Nainital

Centre for Environment Education (CEE)

National Centre of Excellence developing environmental education and sustainability programmes

Extensive network of over 2 lakh (200,000) schools for its programmes

Centre for People's Forestry (CPF)

Advancing forest rights and sustainable resource management for forest communities

10,531 total farmers reached across 609 villages, 164 Gram Panchayats and 11 districts in 4 states (Andhra Pra

Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)

Research and advocacy for a sustainable, equitable India

In 2024-25, 1,128 participants across the Global South attended CSE trainings and workshops, including 426 gov

Centre for Social Markets

Mobilises business and communities on climate action, fair trade and sustainable farming.

Centre for Sustainable Agriculture (CSA)

Promoting organic and agroecological farming practices across India

50,000 farmers reached directly under various programs

Centre for Wildlife Studies

Wildlife research and conservation nonprofit behind Wild Seve and Wild Shaale

35,967+ Compensation Claims Filed

Ch Tejsingh Sorout Jan Kalyan Society

Education, environment, old-age care and self-defence programmes in rural Haryana.

Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group

Environmental research and action alongside waste workers

6,000 tons of waste diverted from landfill monthly

Citizen consumer and civic Action Group (CAG)

Chennai non-profit protecting consumer rights and promoting good governance since 1985

Coastal Impact

Monitoring and protecting Goa's coral reefs and marine ecosystems since 2009

3,000+ students reached

Coca-Cola India Foundation (Anandana)

Water replenishment and community grants across India

Cohesion Foundation Trust

Development support and implementation organisation working across four states

COVID relief in 2021 reached over 400 villages and more than 45,000 households, with over 133,034 vaccinations

Community Environmental Resource Centre (Vembanad)

Protecting the Vembanad backwaters and its fishing communities

40+ wetland study centres

Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW)

Leading Indian policy research on energy transition, climate and resource use, since 2010

80,000+ livelihoods enabled

Dakshin Foundation

Marine and coastal conservation research organisation based in Bengaluru

165 community workers (CRPs, ASHA workers, Anganwadi workers) trained on sustainable menstrual practices acros

Deccan Development Society

Dalit women farmer sanghams reviving millets and rainfed farming in Telangana since 1983

10,000 families impacted through 1,500 Sangham members across 42 sanghams

Development Alternatives

Green technology and circular-economy solutions for rural and peri-urban India

2.5 lakh people made aware on health, nutrition, WASH and agriculture through Radio Bundelkhand (2023-24)

Earth5R

Community-driven environmental sustainability and circular economy NGO

273 ESG projects delivered

Ecoserve Development Foundation

Youth-led Ranchi nonprofit running community ecosystem-restoration and climate-resilience projects

1,50,000+ trees planted and 1,500+ lives impacted across its climate action and development programmes

EcoSikh

Sikh environmental movement planting Guru Nanak sacred forests and reviving Punjab's ecology.

Under its Guru Nanak Sacred Forest project, 1580+ micro forests comprising 9,00,000 thriving native trees have

Ecosphere

Responsible travel and sustainable development in Spiti

Elite Club Youth Foundation

Nashik youth-led group running education, environment and hunger-relief drives across the community

80K+ Kg Plastic Waste Removed

End Poverty India

Rural livelihoods, sustainable agriculture and dairy development since 2009

250,000+ people reached

Energy Swaraj Foundation

Solar-energy literacy movement founded by IIT Bombay professor Chetan Singh Solanki

149,290 people engaged in climate action with the Finite Earth Movement

Environmentalist Foundation of India (E.F.I)

Volunteer-driven scientific restoration of India's lakes, ponds and wildlife habitats

Operates across 18 Indian states

Exnora International

Community-driven civic action for waste management, clean water bodies and urban greening since 1989

300,000 trees planted (data for the past three years)

Forest First Samithi

Community-driven invasive-species removal and forest restoration in Wayanad, Kerala since 2010

775+ acres of land under restoration

FORREST India

Forest Regeneration and Environmental Sustainability Trust restoring habitats across Maharashtra since 2015

3500 native forest trees of 133 species restored at Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Malad, Mumbai (2024-25)

Foundation for Ecological Security (FES)

Restoring India's forests, grasslands and water commons through local governance

40.38 million lives impacted (as on March 2025)

Foundation for Revitalisation of Local Health Traditions (FRLHT)

Reviving India's traditional medicine heritage through science-based research

Fulminare Social Help Foundation (FSH Foundation)

Bihar nonprofit running education, health and environment programmes toward large-scale rural upliftment

Volunteers, students, and community members planted more than 1,000 saplings across schools, parks, and public

Garbage Free India

Kolkata environment group diverting waste from landfills through awareness and clean-up drives

4,30,138 kg Total Waste Diverted from Landfills

Gene Campaign

Research and advocacy on farmers' rights, agro-biodiversity and genetic resources policy

550 projects accomplished

Give Me Trees Trust

One of India's largest community tree-planting movements, with millions of trees planted and protected

25M+ trees planted

Goa Foundation

Goa's longest-running environmental watchdog, fighting illegal mining since 1986

Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group (GEAG)

Sustainable agriculture, climate resilience and rights of small and marginal farmers in eastern Uttar Pradesh

1,540 farmers took part in monthly climate-resilient agriculture sessions in 2024-25

Gram Arogya Ghati

Empowers tribal communities in Gadchiroli through forest rights, water conservation and livelihoods

Supported 16 tribal villages in the backward regions of Vidarbha, Maharashtra, to develop community forest res

Gram Bharati Samiti (GBS)

Rural development and ecological restoration around Jaipur

83,000+ trees planted at Gandhivan since 1991

Gramin Samassya Mukti Trust

Sustainable agriculture, water conservation and rural livelihoods work in Yavatmal.

Facilitated Community Forest Rights for 760 villages in coordination with government line departments and also

Green Communities Foundation

Sets up waste segregation and management systems for urban and rural communities.

6,000+ Tonnes of dry waste diverted from landfills

GREEN Foundation

Conserving indigenous seed varieties and community seed banks with smallholder women farmers

Of the farmers certified under GREEN Foundation's Participatory Guarantee System for organic certification, 70

Green Yatra Trust

Large-scale ecological restoration — urban forests, water bodies and mangroves

42+ lakh trees planted, with a 90%+ survival rate

Greensole Foundation

Upcycles discarded footwear and industrial waste into shoes and school supplies for underprivileged children

850,000 slippers/footwear upcycled by Greensole Foundation

Grow-Trees

Enabling people to plant trees for a greener, cleaner India

23,049,636 trees planted

Hasiru Dala

Giving Bengaluru's informal waste pickers identity, dignity and formal employment since 2013

Impacting over 25,000 waste pickers and their families across two states, 18 cities, 38 taluks and 64 villages

HCLFoundation

HCLTech's foundation for urban and rural India

163,000+ people linked with social security schemes

Healing Himalayas Foundation

Clearing and managing waste across the Himalayan states, with mountain-ready recovery facilities

1,000+ cleanup drives, with volunteers trekking 10,000+ km

Heartfulness Institute

Runs the global Heartfulness meditation practice and the Forests by Heartfulness reforestation programme from its Hyderabad campus

20 million+ practitioners, with presence in 160 countries

Himalayan Chetna

Education, watershed and elder-care programmes for Himachal's underserved communities since 2004

45 Joint Liability Groups formed under NABARD

Himalayan Environmental Studies and Conservation Organisation (HESCO)

Low-cost, eco-friendly technologies restoring Himalayan ecosystems and rural livelihoods

35k+ active volunteers

Hindustan Unilever Foundation

Water conservation at national scale

Water conservation programmes have reached more than 19,000 villages across 14 states and 2 union territories

Humana People to People India

Development organisation running education, health, livelihood and community programmes across 17 states.

In 2024-25 HPPI implemented over 100 projects across 17 states, together with more than 1.1 million people in

Incredible Himachal

Education sponsorships, health camps and environmental awareness across Himachal Pradesh

Approximately 500 people from remote areas came for a medical checkup at the health camp in Kohbag, Shimla dis

Industree Foundation

Women-owned producer enterprises from farm to market

600,000 cumulative lives impacted

Infinity Foundation

Ahmedabad NGO for environmental protection, healthcare and education.

INHERE (Institute of Himalayan Environmental Research and Education)

Grassroots Himalayan development across agriculture, health and water since 1982

84 village-level meetings held across 20 villages in 3 Uttarakhand districts (Almora, Chamoli, Bageshwar) in 2

Inqui-Lab Inventions Foundation

Design thinking and social innovation programmes for school and college students

573,407 students reached

INREM Foundation

Works at the intersection of water, climate and public health to build water-safe communities

With a collective effort, we’ve had the opportunity to create meaningful impact across 11 districts in 7 state

INTACH

Conserving India's natural, built and cultural heritage

India's membership organisation for heritage awareness and conservation \u2014 documenting and restoring the c

Isha Foundation

Sadhguru-led foundation for yoga, rural upliftment and ecology

Volunteer-driven programmes in rural revitalisation, education and large-scale ecological initiatives

Jan Briddhi Foundation

Assam NGO working on education, environment and community health in Bajali district.

2000+ Received Quality Education

Janmitram Kalyan Samiti

Raigarh NGO born out of forest-management work, running health, education and livelihood programmes for forest villages

Over the last 15 years JanMitram has changed the lives of more than 6,000 families and brought them into the m

Jaya Organic Yojana

Trains tribal and smallholder farmers in organic and regenerative farming through vermiculture.

400 farmers skilled with 10 months of in-situ, on-location training in vermi technology in Karnataka

Jeevitnadi - Living River Foundation

Pune citizens' foundation restoring the Mula, Mutha and Ram rivers stretch by stretch.

Jhamtse Gatsal Children's Community

Residential children's community and school in Tawang district, Arunachal Pradesh.

Kalpaka Charitable Trust

Feeds children and animals, plants trees and runs water and plastic-reduction drives.

Kalpavriksh

Environmental and social action for ecological sustainability since 1979

Eastern Nagaland CCA Assembly brought together over 570 participants from 50 villages at Choklangan village, N

Kalpavriksha

Plants and nurtures trees to self-sustenance, tracking every tree it has planted

5909 Trees, 98% Alive

Kashtakari Panchayat

Organises Pune waste pickers to reclaim livelihoods through recycling work.

Under the aegis of SWaCH, more than 3,900 waste pickers are formally integrated into the city's municipal soli

Kenono Foundation

Community-led forest conservation and green enterprise across Nagaland

Works across 25 community-managed forest sites spanning approximately 30,000 hectares

Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad (KSSP)

Science for Social Revolution

Membership has grown to over 50,000 individuals

Keystone Foundation

Reviving indigenous beekeeping and biodiversity conservation in the Nilgiris

356+ villages worked in

Khangchendzonga Conservation Committee

Conserving the Khangchendzonga sacred landscape in Sikkim

60+ people trained in pottery-making

Kheti Virasat Mission

Turning Punjab's farmers back to organic, chemical-free agriculture since 2005

500+ organic farmers

Kovai Kulangal Padhukappu Amaippu

Every Sunday, Coimbatore's volunteers bring their lakes back to life

30,800+ volunteers joined across 310+ volunteer weeks

Last Wilderness Foundation

Human-wildlife conflict mitigation and conservation education, with a focus on leopards

Last Wilderness Foundation's total reach in 2024-25 was approximately 9,800 individuals across more than 150 v

LEDeG (Ladakh Ecological Development Group)

Building a sustainable Ladakh through renewable energy and eco-livelihoods

100+ projects completed since founding in 1983

Leh Nutrition Project (LNP)

Ladakh's first local NGO, working on livelihoods and climate resilience since 1979

5,000 beneficiaries reached

M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF)

Science and technology for pro-poor, pro-nature rural development

645,000 households touched

Madras Crocodile Bank Trust & Centre for Herpetology

Conserving India's crocodiles, reptiles and amphibians since 1976

Home to 15 of the 25 crocodilian species in the world, one of the largest reptile zoos in the world

Madras Naturalists' Society

Chennai's community of naturalists since 1978

Manthan Adhyayan Kendra

Independent research and analysis on India's water and energy policy

Manuvikasa

Environment, women's empowerment and rural development across coastal Karnataka

3,813 farm ponds built

Marpu Foundation

Mobilises citizens and corporate volunteers for environmental and SDG-aligned projects.

Mati Ecological Foundation

Helps marginalized farmers near Delhi-NCR transition from chemical-intensive farming to regenerative agriculture.

ML.I Foundation

Noida-based nonprofit working on animal welfare, environmental education, and material-literacy training.

1,100+ tonnes of multi-layered plastic (MLP) waste collected and recycled into granules for reuse

Muni Seva Ashram

Gandhian ashram running a cancer hospital, schools and care homes on a green, solar-powered campus.

Has grown from a small hut in Goraj (Vadodara district, Gujarat) in 1978 to a 300-acre campus today, running s

Murty Trust

Igniting ideas of India — heritage, nature and science

Narmada Niranjani Paryavaran Sanrakshan Samiti

Documenting and preserving the sacred heritage sites of the Narmada river

250+ ancient sacred sites documented along 1,500+ km of the Narmada river (2015-2020)

Nature Club Surat

Conserve nature's heritage — Surat's wildlife rescuers since 1985

1,000+ volunteers and 1,000+ members

Nature Conservation Foundation

Science-based conservation of wildlife and ecosystems

Science-based wildlife conservation and research across India's ecosystems \u2014 from coral reefs to the high

Nature Environment and Wildlife Society (NEWS)

Conserving wildlife, forests and ecology across West Bengal since 1991

386,677 mangrove saplings planted along approximately 85 hectares of the Mayiladuthurai coastline in Tamil Nad

Nature Trust

Karur, Tamil Nadu nonprofit supporting persons with disabilities, elderly citizens, and environmental conservation.

588+ PWD (persons with disabilities) families benefitted

Nature's Beckon

Northeast India's pioneering wildlife and habitat conservation movement

Its Rainforest Conservation Movement led to the declaration of the 111.19 sq km Dehing Patkai Wildlife Sanctua

Nature's Observer

Assam nonprofit working on wetland preservation, human-elephant conflict mitigation, and environmental education.

Successfully planted more than 40,000 saplings throughout the state, contributing significantly to ecological

Navdanya

Seed conservation and organic farming movement founded by Vandana Shiva

More than 150 community seed banks conserving native seed varieties

Navjyoti India Foundation

Kiran Bedi's foundation for child education, skilling and women's empowerment in Delhi-NCR

500K+ lives touched

Nizhal

Save Our Trees, Plant More Trees, Care For Trees

20 years of community greening in Chennai

North East Society for Agroecology Support (NESFAS)

Reviving indigenous food systems and agroecology across Northeast India

26,000 community members reached across 650 partner communities

OMCAR Foundation

Conserving dugongs, seagrass and mangroves in Palk Bay

Omysha Foundation

Delhi foundation working on inclusion, sustainability and ethical technology programmes

Organic Farming Association of India (OFAI)

India's largest membership-based network of organic farmers

Paani Foundation

Aamir Khan's foundation fighting drought in rural Maharashtra

5 million people impacted through water conservation and sustainable farming

Pallishree

Rural development and disaster risk reduction organisation in coastal Odisha.

Pallishree's crab-based livelihood project in coastal Odisha enhanced the income of 5,000 fishermen in 2019-20

Pan Himalayan Grassroots Development Foundation

Self-reliant mountain development across water, energy, forests and livelihoods in the central and western Himalaya

Parisar

Advocating for sustainable urban transport, air quality and road safety in Pune since the 1980s

Performance review of Pune Municipal Corporation's footpath grievance redress system found 114 of 302 filed co

Parmarth Samaj Sevi Sansthan

Water conservation and village development across the Bundelkhand region.

Developed a cadre of 1086 Jal Saheli

Parohitaishi Welfare Foundation

West Bengal nonprofit founded in 2025 focused on education, sustainability, and community empowerment.

Peaceful Society

A Gandhian voluntary organisation of Goa

The Save the Western Ghats March, which Peaceful Society was entrusted to organise, was carried out as a foot

People's Science Institute (PSI)

Natural resource management and disaster mitigation research group in Dehradun

PondyCAN

Restoring Puducherry's eroded coastline through citizen-led environmental action since 2007

Prabhaav Foundation

Delhi foundation for social development through education, health, culture and environment

Prem Samriddhi Foundation

Bundi, Rajasthan nonprofit conserving indigenous seed varieties by engaging marginalized women farmers.

Empowering 2,300+ women farmers with affordable inputs, premium crop prices, and modern training for sustainab

Pro Rural Society

Empowerment, livelihoods and health outreach for North East India since 2009

Trained 26 people in food processing at CMTC, Dimapur

Project Mumbai

Citizen-driven non-profit making Mumbai better through public-private-people partnerships.

Dharmaraj is the Head of Projects at Project Mumbai, one of India's biggest civic engagement platforms that ha

Raah Foundation

Water security, agroecology and ecological restoration in the Western Ghats

Reap Benefit

Turning young Indians into 'Solve Ninjas' who fix local civic and climate problems

1,21,000 Solve Ninjas activated

Reciprocity Foundation

Chennai collective running beach clean-ups, water projects and child health drives.

Recycle India Foundation

Plastic and e-waste recycling as a Producer Responsibility Organisation

Operations spread across 29 states, 3 union territories and over 60 cities

ReefWatch Marine Conservation

Coral reef restoration and marine megafauna rescue across India's coasts

Attended 494 marine animal stranding cases in FY 2024-25 — 336 in Goa, 70 in Karnataka and 88 during a mass st

Regenboog India Foundation

Evening schools, mobile hospital and conservation work rooted in Tiruvannamalai.

Regional Centre for Development Cooperation (RCDC)

Forest, land and water rights advocacy for Odisha's rural communities since 1993

RCDC, as a member of SODI network is implementing Mahila Kishan Sashaktikaran Pariyojana (MKSP) for livelihood

Relearn Foundation

Learning-by-doing education and upcycling livelihoods with youth and women in Jamshedpur.

Renovatio Foundation

Nagpur nonprofit building resilient minds in children and greening urban spaces

Resource Foundation

Cuddalore NGO running education support and sustainable development activities

RESQ Charitable Trust

Wildlife rescue and human-wildlife conflict mitigation

Aid provided to animals of 230+ species since 2007

Rishi Valmiki Eco School

Non-profit Mumbai eco school giving underprivileged children a quality green education

Passing % of students in Boards 2019-20: 100% – 10th (SSC Boards) Goregaon

RNisarg Foundation

Doctor-led nonprofit for climate-conscious waste management and green healthcare.

Roopaantar

Runs breast cancer screening drives and nature-health initiatives from Indore

RPG Foundation

Youth skilling, women, environment and heritage

1,35,000+ community members impacted

Rural Communes

Watershed development and sustainable agriculture across the Western Ghats and coastal Maharashtra.

Rural Communes' NABARD-supported watershed development programme covered 1,780 hectares across 5 revenue villa

Saahas

Building scientific solid-waste management systems across India

1,581 women supported in adopting sustainable menstruation products

Sahjeevan

Supporting pastoralist livelihoods and biodiversity conservation in Kachchh and beyond

Camel milk procurement from five collection centres in Kutch reached 5,500 litres per day in 2023-24, sustaini

Sahyadri Devrai

Actor Sayaji Shinde's movement planting sacred groves (devrais) across Maharashtra.

17,000 trees planted at the Satara Bio-Diversity Park site

Sahyadri Nisarga Mitra

Wildlife conservation group in Velas famous for its Olive Ridley turtle protection work

1,420 saplings of 157 native tree species planted at the Kalambaste Devrai project in 2025-26

Salaam Bharat

Awareness, education, women's welfare and rural development initiatives across India

Sampoorna Bamboo Kendra

Bamboo-based livelihoods and craft training for tribal communities in Melghat.

Sampoorna Bamboo Kendra has provided bamboo handicraft and bamboo housing training to more than 10,000 youth (

Sanctuary Nature Foundation

India's original wilderness conservation portal, publisher of Sanctuary Asia

Its Mud on Boots Project has supported over 34 grassroots conservationists from 16 states and one Union Territ

Sankalpa Rural Development Society (SRDS)

Recharges borewells and builds rainwater harvesting across rural Karnataka

SankalpTaru Foundation

Plant a tree, grow a tree

1,900,000 trees planted

SARA Centre

Community centre in the Western Ghats promoting sustainable rural living and eco-walks

SayTrees

Volunteer-driven tree plantation and urban afforestation

10 million+ trees planted

SCOPE (Society for Creative Opportunities and Participatory Ecosystems)

Protecting the East Kolkata Wetlands and the livelihoods they sustain

Accordingly, a training camp was held on September 29, 2022 to teach IPM to villagers from 4 tribal villages -

Scope For Change

Delhi NGO for education, skill training, women's empowerment and child care

SECMOL (Students' Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh)

Reforming rural education through Ladakh's alternative campus school

Under ONH, SECMOL trained over 700 teachers and education officials and administrators, in 10-day intensive re

SEEDS

Promotes sustainable agriculture, FPOs and rural livelihoods around Aruppukkottai

SEEDS India

Building community resilience to disasters and climate risk

1.25 crore lives touched through disaster readiness, response and rehabilitation since 1994

SELCO Foundation

Decentralised renewable energy against poverty

Enabled 5,914 health facilities across 13 Indian states with decentralised solar energy systems in 2024-25, wo

Sensing Local

Urban living lab tackling environmental challenges through participatory planning.

Shohratgarh Environmental Society (SES)

Grassroots NGO tackling water, agriculture and disaster issues in eastern Uttar Pradesh since 1985

60,000+ Lives Impacted Directly - number of people directly empowered through community interventions

Shram Jivi Sewa Samiti

Allahabad-based samiti working on water, environment, culture and education

In the last thirty years, Shram Jivi Sewa Samiti has positively transformed the lives of more than two lakh pe

Shri Vivekanand Research and Training Institute (VRTI)

Water, agriculture and rural craft across 300 villages of drought-prone Kachchh

Programme execution area spanning 300 odd villages of Kachchh district, Gujarat

Siruthuli

Coimbatore trust reviving the Noyyal river, waterbodies and green cover since the early 2000s drought.

Has planted 10 lakh+ trees through 190+ plantation drives in Coimbatore.

Smokeless Cookstove Foundation

Trains rural and forest communities to build smokeless mud cookstoves

Snow Leopard Conservancy India Trust

Community-based conservation of the endangered snow leopard

Since 2002, SLC-IT has trained over 130 families to offer homestays across Ladakh under its Himalayan Homestay

Society for Promotion of Wastelands Development (SPWD)

Restoring degraded land, forests and water resources through community action

SPWD's Climate Resilient Farming System project (with Karl Kubel Stiftung) worked to enhance livelihoods for 8

SRISTI (Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions)

Honey Bee Network organisation supporting grassroots innovators

SRISTI has organized 15 competitions amongst 707 rural participants yielding a total of 1638 traditional recip

Sristi Foundation

An inclusive, self-sustaining village for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities

340+ children with special needs supported

Srushtidnyan

Environment education, mangrove and flamingo habitat conservation in Mumbai

STEMSUP Education & Environment Foundation

Closing the digital and STEM education divide for underprivileged children in Thoothukudi

Sundarban Social Development Centre (SSDC)

Serving disaster-prone island communities of the Sundarbans since 1989

74660 cataract patients operated successfully till 31st December 2020

Surge Impact Foundation

Strengthens India's social impact ecosystem through incubation and skilling

SVATANYA India Foundation

Social enterprise helping women in Delhi's urban slums earn a livelihood from home

1150+ impacted women

SWaCH

The world's largest waste-picker-led cooperative, formalising door-to-door waste collection

10,00,000 (1 million) households covered daily

SwitchON Foundation

Kolkata nonprofit driving renewable energy access and climate-resilient rural livelihoods since 2008

SwitchON Foundation's presence and impact as of its 2024-25 annual report: 88 FPOs and Agri Clusters, 100,000+

Tarumitra

Friends of Trees — a student movement for the Earth

Over 300,000 members in over 2000 high schools and colleges across India

Tarun Bharat Sangh

Rajendra Singh's 'Waterman of India' movement that revived 13 rivers through johads

100 billion litres of water conserved every year

Technology Informatics Design Endeavour (TIDE)

Clean energy, water management and livelihoods through appropriate technology

236,252 people impacted

Thanal Trust

Organic farming, zero waste and environmental justice in Kerala

100,000+ farmers supported

The Art of Living Foundation

Global service organisation founded by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

10,000+ centres across 182 countries

The Corbett Foundation

Reducing human-wildlife conflict around India's tiger reserves since 1994

15,000+ people treated annually through its rural health programmes

The Forest Way

Charitable trust restoring the forests of Arunachala hill and running a holistic school in Tiruvannamalai.

Each year with the monsoon rains The Forest Way plants around 15,000 young trees on the slopes of Arunachala a

The Happy Plant Project Welfare Society

Bhopal-based movement that has planted over 300,000 native trees since 2021

276,364 trees planted to date

The Kala Chaupal Trust

Arts trust founded in 2018 running folk-art, mural and water-heritage programmes

The Satsang Foundation

Foundation established by spiritual teacher Sri M in 1994, running education, healthcare, and environmental service programs.

211 students (1st to 10th Standard) at the Satsang Foundation's Madanapalle Ashram school

The Social Purpose Trust

Delhi NCR trust promoting rooftop solar adoption and tree-planting to advance India's climate goals.

The Social Purpose Trust successfully completed the plantation drive in collaboration with VINCULAR in Utsav P

The Timbaktu Collective

Regenerating ecosystems and rural livelihoods in drought-prone Andhra Pradesh since 1990

48,731 families reached across 347 villages

Thiru Trust

Advocate-led Madurai trust for human rights, gender equality and sustainability

Thuvakkam

Chennai volunteer movement planting trees and running civic and relief drives

Tieedi Permaculture Foundation

Darjeeling permaculture organisation running environmental education, natural farming, and waste management programs since 2016.

Over 15,000 sacks of plastic unearthed while reforesting TIEEDI's land in Darjeeling

Toxics Link

Research and advocacy for a toxics-free India

300+ publications and IEC materials produced

TREE Foundation

Community-based Olive Ridley sea turtle conservation on Tamil Nadu's coast

44,67,463 hatchlings released

Under The Mango Tree Society (UTMT)

Training tribal farmers in indigenous beekeeping to boost incomes and biodiversity

Presence in 175+ villages spread across 14 districts (as of 2019)

United Way Bengaluru

Community development and lake rejuvenation across Karnataka since 2008

1.25 lakh+ volunteers engaged

United Way Chennai

Mobilises companies and volunteers for education, health and environment in Chennai.

United Way Mumbai

Mobilising communities and companies for social impact

\u20b91,352 crore+ invested in community programmes

Universe Simplified Foundation

Inquiry-driven STEM education and innovation hubs for young minds

In 2025-26 Universe Simplified Foundation worked with over 2,000 students across 19 Zilla Parishad and private

Unmukt Foundation

Bhubaneswar foundation running holistic child-development and environmental-action programs in urban slums since 2017.

250 underserved children reached across government schools, low-fee private schools and local communities in B

Uravu Indigenous Science & Technology Study Centre

Wayanad NGO building bamboo-based livelihoods for rural artisans since 1996.

Around 100 families in Thrikkaipetta earn their primary income from bamboo-based activities, up from 8 familie

Uttarakhand Seva Nidhi Paryavaran Shiksha Sansthan

Environmental education centre working with Kumaon village communities.

Helped mountain women in Uttarakhand organise themselves into a network of more than 450 groups

Uttarayan Wildlife

West Bengal organisation for wildlife conservation and community development

Van-Uday Social Welfare Foundation

Bhopal foundation restoring degraded ecosystems and building climate-resilient rural livelihoods.

Vanarai

Grassroots rural development through afforestation, water and sustainable agriculture

40 years of rural transformation

Vanashakti

Protecting Mumbai's forests, mangroves and wetlands through conservation and litigation

80,000+ trees planted and 75,000+ mangroves planted

Vasudha Foundation

Advancing India's sustainable energy transition and climate action since 2010

Over 1,000 in-person Surya Uday Booth Camps organised across Uttar Pradesh on 1 January 2025, directly engagin

Vasundhara

Securing forest rights and natural-resource governance for Odisha's tribal communities

2,000+ Community Forest Rights claims submitted at the Sub-Divisional Level Committee

Visakha Society for Protection and Care of Animals (VSPCA)

Rescue, rehabilitation and eco-sanctuary care for animals and wildlife in Visakhapatnam

Vishav Satsang Sabha

Faith-based sabha running health, environment and community drives since 2001

Vrikshamitra Foundation

Restoring degraded ecosystems through native-tree plantation across India

5,000+ volunteers across 20 cities

Vrutti

Livelihood impact partners for farmers, fishers, artisans and nano-entrepreneurs

1 Mn+ vulnerable population reached, including small and growing businesses, fisherfolk, factory workers and t

Waatavaran Climate Environment & Sustainability Foundation

Working hyper-locally to slow climate change and improve air quality for vulnerable communities

Intensively working with 15 tribal villages of Raigad district, Maharashtra on community forest rights and res

Waste Warriors

Tackling waste and building clean, green Himalayan towns

Solid-waste management and dignity for waste workers across the Indian Himalayas

Watershed Organisation Trust

Watershed development and climate resilience for rural India

6.93 million people reached across 7,124 villages

Wildlife Conservation Society - India

Science-driven wildlife conservation and community partnerships across India

Wildlife Conservation Trust (WCT)

Protecting India's wildlife and ecosystems across nearly 170 protected areas

Works in and around 170 Protected Areas across 23 states and 4 Union Territories of India, covering 82% of the

Wildlife Protection Society of India

Supporting anti-poaching enforcement and combating illegal wildlife trade, with a focus on tigers

More than 8,000 forest, police and customs officers trained in more than 200 Wildlife Law Enforcement Workshop

Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre (WRRC)

Bengaluru's dedicated rescue and rehabilitation service for injured and distressed wild animals

10,000+ wild animals rescued

Wildlife SOS

Conserving India's wildlife and natural heritage

300,000+ animals rescued

Wildlife Trust of India

Conserving India's wildlife and their habitats

25+ years of wildlife conservation

Wipro Foundation

Wipro's CSR entity for education and ecology

Mission10X programme reached 5,700 faculty across 485 engineering colleges in 18 states

Women's Environment Development Society (WEDS)

Koppal district organisation pairing women's empowerment with watershed and sustainable-agriculture programs since 2002.

Active in 57 villages across Koppal District, Karnataka

World Green Line

Runs tree plantation, plastic-reduction and waste management drives in Bokaro, Jharkhand

WWF India

Leading conservation organisation protecting India's biodiversity

Conservation across nine landscapes — from the Terai Arc (62,445 sq km) to the Western Ghats Nilgiris (70,497

Youth for Seva

Organised volunteering for societal well-being

Over 36 lakh beneficiaries reached in 18 years

YouthNet

Empowering youth and communities across Northeast India since 2006

294,300 people impacted in 20 years

Yugantar Bharati

Conserving Jharkhand's natural resources, forests and wildlife

Yuvsatta

Youth-for-peace organisation running civic and environmental campaigns in Chandigarh.