aikyam fund - Samagata Foundation Making resilience accessible to early stage NGOs, ideas & at risk NGOs Abundance of good people doing great work... Right to information(RTI), Forest Rights Act - FRA, Protection of  Children from sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, Juvenile Justice Act, Right to Education, Internet Freedom, Digital Personal Protection Act, 2023(DPDP Act) are a reality because of Civil Society in India. Just 10 years ago - 15L-20L Active For Impact , Not For Loss orgs(NGOs) (~130-150NGOs/1L Citizens) Donations have increased. Private philanthropy at 1.3 lakh crore in FY24 (1.05 lakh crore in FY22) even with FCRA Inputs reducing. More Talent wants, preaparing to work in the Social Sector (TISS, APUs, IRMA, etc) But, there is scarcity of resilience in Civil Society Organisations As of July 2025, only around 4.1L active NGOs are listed on DARPAN . The ratio of NGOs to citizens in India is approximately 28 NGOs per 1L citizens, compared to 186 in Brazil, 64 in China, and 200 in Russia.  Indian Trusts & Foundations estimate that number of fundable (>1 Cr/year) organisations in India could be less than 4000. 6/10 early-stage impactful NGOs do not get crucial early stage funding due to challenges with compliance, outreach, an ecosystem. 3/10 mid sized NGOs do not get repeat funding from trusts and foundations due to compliance burdens, program and monitoring frameworks, and capacity. 5/10 NGOs (all sizes, stages) have less than 3-month cash runway. 8/10 NGOs (all sizes, stages) struggle to obtain indirect costs funding (capacity building, technology, operational infrastructure) leading to organisation stunting Components of resilience for NGOs - key functions By working with partner NGOs, we noticed that key components of Resilience were Mostly Internal and can be controlled Mostly External/Changing 👩🏼‍💻 Psychologically Safe Workspaces, Teams     🏛️ Compliance 🏛️ Efficient Operations 🌍 Measurable, Impactful Programs 💰 Diverse, Predictable fundraising streams Current state of Key components In our experience of working with, interacting with around 100+ NGOs over the last 2 years, below is a an estimated of the maturity level across each of the key components of resilience TEST: Tiny Experiments for Social Transformation We didn't have many of the answers to improve the above metrics so we ran 200+ Tiny Experiments with partner NGOs to solve for parts of the above challenges and learnt from each experiment. One tiny experiment at a time. One of our objectives was to understand the key barriers (e.g Website is not a tech challenge but a storytelling challenge, ERPs are not a tech challenge but a Internal Policies, Training Challenge) A few TESTS are listed here: Can workshops around listening enhance team work and org vision?  Details 🔗 Can we make high quality Compliance Content accessible & discoverable?  Details 🔗 Can online forums encourage finance teams to ask questions to experts?  Details 🔗 NotebookLM's podcast tool make complex laws accessibel to gig workers?  Details 🔗 Vulnerability centered program design leads to better fundraising request?  Details 🔗 Psychologically safe physical spaces helps team reflect, collaborate better? Details 🔗 Scarcity of safe spaces to bring like minded folks together?  Details 🔗 How can we make vulnerable art/music more accessible to everyone?  Details 🔗 How to nurture a highly engaged community of practitioners from NGOs?  Details 🔗 Can zero code tools like Ghost be used by NGOs to amplify reach?  Details 🔗 Can high quality job descriptions help talent find right social impact jobs?  Details 🔗 Monthly fellowship income to change-makers makes their ideas resilient? ..and many more. This approach by running experiments on actual problems and creating live solutions with feedback helped us to create a first draft framework for solving this in a systematic way for our partner NGOs/Ideas/projects. aikyam fund - "Y Combinator for Changemakers in India" What is aikyam fund? A 12 month program for early stage social impact Ideas, non profits & at risk non profits Goal is to enable them to become resilient. Resilient means that Compliant & efficient, sustainable operations, Mission aligned teams in a psychologically safe workspace, Impactful (measurable) programs delivered to vulnerable communities,  Diverse, predictable and reliable fundraising streams. We also support select Ideas, NGOs with INR 5L-15L as seed funding/support Ego-system to Eco-system approach by creating public free open high quality infrastructure for NGOs for their tech, fundraising, compliance, storytelling, etc needs. Image: Making resilience accessible to early stage, at risk NGOs - 1 Level at a time The table below shows our level by level approach to achieve the highest level across each of the key components of resilience. Our program helps them navigate through each box. L4 Compliant & Efficient Operations Psychologically Safe Workspace, Teams Impactful Programs delivered effectively Diverse, Predictable fundraising streams L3 System Implementing Processes Systems aiding in Team/Feild Work, Collaboration Systems for Monitoring & Last mile delivery Systems for Discoverability, Fundraising L2 Policies, Processes & Practices  Capacity & Team Building, Growth, Training  Program Workflows, Monitoring Frameworks Engagement & Outreach, Fundraising Plans L1 Regulatory Compliances, Filings, Audits Leadership on Vision, Mission, Values, Hiring Vulnerability/Planet centered Program(s) Designing Storytelling, Theory of Change How do we do it? Structured guidance through workshops, bootcamps, trainings, actual implementation support around Support Compliance, Day to Day Operations Support Team Building, Mission & Leadership, Collaboration, Psychological Safety Co-design programs that are Impactful and measurable with vulnerability at the center of design Support to build Diverse, predictable and reliable fundraising streams Office hours with aikyam fellows Conversations and mentoring with other Founders, Frontline workers, Teams Nurturing an eco-system of "infrastructure" for NGOs through public resources/projects/alliances like: aikyam space - Convening, Co-working, Reflective spaces for NGOs in Fort Kochi Details 🔗 aikyam jobs - Hand curated jobs in social impact  Details 🔗 aikyam school (WIP) - Courses, Workshops for Capacity Building  Details 🔗 aikyam fellows - Program, Design, Tech, Strategy help for NGOs Our Alliances: PATTIC - Community, resources for statutory & regulatory matters  Details 🔗 OASIS (Partner) - Making Open Source Software accessible to NGOs  Details 🔗 PoSH (WIP) - Resources for gender neutral safe workspaces Financial Projections (Aug 2025 - July 2027) S No Description Y1  (Sep 2025 - Aug 2026) Y2  (Sep 2026 - Aug 2027) 1 People (Fellowships, Salaries, Consulting, Interns) ₹67,00,000 ₹69,68,000 2 IT Infra for NGOs (Hosting, Laptops, Devices) ₹17,50,000 ₹18,20,000 3 IT Consulting for NGOs (Customisations of FOSS) ₹7,00,000 ₹7,28,000 4 Office/Space (Rent, Utilities, Medical, Facilities) ₹28,00,000 ₹29,10,000 5 Space (Furniture, Fixtures, Maintenance) ₹3,50,000 ₹3,64,000 6 Legal & Compliances ₹2,50,000 ₹2,60,000 7 Support/Fund for NGOs/Idea (INR 5L - 15L per unit) ₹50,00,000 ₹50,00,000   ₹1,75,50,000 ₹1,80,50,000 Note #7 above: Support/Fund for NGOs/Idea (INR 5L - 15L per unit) will be used to cover urgent and important expenses for the projects in the cohort. Basic Salaries for Founders, Compliance Consulting costs, Medical Insurance, Workshops, Capacity Building, any other expenses as they go through the 12 month journey.  We will reach out to other funders to top this fund as we progress and enroll more ideas/projects/NGOs. The goal is to grow this to a INR 2-3 Cr/ year fund over the next 2 years. Moonshot - to raise a Corpus of 200 Cr in 5 years that could potentially make aikyam fund sustainable in the long term. Detailed Financial Projection Grant Request to Samagata Foundation (Sep 2025 - Aug 2027) A total of INR 3.56 Cr (Three Crores Fifty Six Lakhs Indian Rupees) in 2 tranches  September 2025: ₹1,75,50,000 (One Crore Seventy Five Lakhs and Fifty Thousand Indian Rupees only) September 2026: ₹1,80,50,000 (One Crore Eighty Lakhs and Fifty Thousand Indian Rupees only) This will help us support aikyam's operating costs and support funding for 5-10 NGOs/Ideas/Projects per year for 2 years Compliance Documentations Company Registration List of Directors.pdf AoA.pdf CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION T4G.PDF PAN_T4G.pdf License for Section 8 of Companies Act.PDF MoA.pdf Darpan_Registration.pdf 12A & 80G 12A Approval Certificate.pdf 80G Approval certificate.pdf CSR Registration CSR_Approval_letter.PDF Audit Reports Audit Report & Financials_FY23.pdf Audit Report & Financials_FY24.Pdf Income Tax Returns FY 2022-23 10BB FY 2022-23.pdf ITR Form FY 2022-23.pdf ITR Acknowledgement FY 2022-23.pdf FY 2023-24 10BB FY 2023-24.pdf ITR FY 2023-24_Form.pdf ITR FY 2023-24 Acknoweldgement.Pdf Annual Reports aikyam-report-2022-23.pdf aikyam-Report-2023-2024.pdf aikyam-report-2024-25.pdf Policies HR Policies.pdf PoSH Policy.pdf Travel Policy.pdf Reimbursement Policy.pdf Advance Policy.pdf Procurement Policy.pdf Banking and Cash Approval Policy.pdf Bank Details T4G Impact Tech Foundation IDFC Saving Bank a/c: 10184006257 IFSC Code: IDFB0080151 Branch: Residency Road, Bangalore T4G IDFC Bank cancelled cheque 02-Mar-2025 14-48-45.pdf