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Give today from $50, or set money aside now and decide later. Both are tax-deductible in the US. And no organisation receives its next release until it has shown you what the last one did.
That register changes every month. An organisation that was legitimate in January can be unable to legally receive your money by June, and nobody tells the donor. We check the day your money moves, not once a year.
Start here
The difference is only about timing and tax. Everything after the first step is identical: same checked organisations, same evidence, same release rules.
For most people, most of the time.
Choose a cause rather than hunting for an organisation. Your gift joins others in a fund we grant out every quarter, which is what makes small gifts worth sending across a border at all. You see exactly where the quarter's money went.
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For anyone giving from stock, or above roughly $15,000 a year.
Move cash or appreciated shares in once. Take the deduction for this year. Skip the capital gains you'd owe on selling first. The balance stays invested while you take your time deciding where it should go, and you give from it for as long as you like.
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Not sure which? Answer one question at signup and we'll point you at the right one. Most households under $15,000 a year of giving are better off with option one, and we'll say so even though option two earns us more.
How it works
US charitable rules, Indian regulation, currency conversion, and verification all happen behind the account.
Cash or shares, held by an established US public charity. The tax side is handled once, at the start, and the paperwork lands in your records.
If you're not giving it out immediately, the balance sits in approved investment options rather than idle. Growth stays dedicated to giving. Value can go down as well as up.
Pick from Indian organisations we've checked for registration, banking, governance, and whether they can actually report back. You recommend; the charity approves and sends.
Transfer record, delivery evidence, and outcome, each dated and sourced. Then the next release depends on it.
The part nobody else does
Funding something for fifteen years is easy to promise and hard to hold anyone to. So we don't rely on goodwill. Each release is a condition, not a favour.
Funds reach the organisation's designated account in India.
Report due · month 12Year 1 spending and results reviewed and accepted.
Report due · month 24Attendance and outcome data checked against what was promised.
Report due · month 36Report late or numbers don't reconcile. Nothing moves until it's resolved.
Awaiting evidenceYour balance stays yours to direct. Redirect it if the issue isn't fixed.
Not yet releasedFifteen years of schooling, not fifteen months of goodwill.
Fair questions
Most people we've spoken to are already giving to India somehow. Here's the honest comparison, including where the other option is fine.
Because you can't deduct it, and you'll never see a report. It's fast and it's personal, and for a relative in trouble it's the right call. But it isn't charitable giving in the eyes of the IRS, and there is no record of what the money did.
They're built for rupees, not for your US tax return. They do a good job inside India. What they can't give an American taxpayer is a deduction, a way to give shares instead of cash, or a balance that grows while you decide.
You can, and we'll take grants from it. What they don't have is India. They can't tell you whether an organisation's clearance is current this week, or chase a report from a district office in Odisha. That's the whole of what we do.
Often you should, and several are on our list. The limit is choice. You get their portfolio, not yours, and you rarely find out what your specific gift funded. We'll happily route you to one when it's the better answer.
We're the only one that withholds the next release until the last one is accounted for. Everyone can move money. Almost nobody makes the money conditional on evidence, because it's slow, unpopular with organisations, and expensive to run.
Proof, not photographs
A picture of a smiling child is marketing. We grade what we show you, and we say what each level does and doesn't prove.
What you can support
We start with organisations already registered to receive funds from abroad, across the causes families ask for most.
A note on faith-linked giving, because families ask. We can support the charitable work a temple or trust runs, such as a school, a clinic, or a kitchen, where that work sits in a registered entity cleared to receive funds from abroad. We can't route money to worship itself, and we can't arrange a named puja or a plaque, because a gift that buys you something personal isn't a charitable grant.
Give together
Giving to India already happens through family and friends who vouch for something. Start a circle with your household, your batch, your alumni group or your hospital, pick a cause together, and see one report you all trust.
One household lights the next, and the first is no dimmer for it.
Straight answers
Giving products earn trust by being precise about the unglamorous parts. So, plainly:
We're opening with a small group of founding families and a hand-checked set of Indian organisations. Leave your email and we'll tell you when it's your turn.