Our Mission

We connect nonprofits in India with some of the world’s largest companies and their employees. By using technology to transform how charitable organizations receive funds, we free up their time and resources so they can focus on what matters — delivering community impact.

Who is Online Giving Foundation (OGF)?

The Online Giving Foundation (OGF) is a charitable public trust registered under the Maharashtra Public Trust Act in India, working to improve the connection between donors and charitable organizations. As a registered charity that uses a donor-advised fund model, we receive and disburse funds for charitable purposes, making it faster, safer and more cost-efficient for companies and their employees to give — and nonprofits to receive — donations.

OGF has partnered with Benevity, Inc., a for-profit Certified B Corporation that provides leading global corporate purpose software. The Benevity technology platform helps companies and their people make charitable donations in the most efficient way possible. OGF provides real-time donation acknowledgements without applying donation thresholds or other restrictions that limit participation.

How are donations handled?

When people and companies donate to OGF (the Foundation), they advise the Foundation as to which charitable and nonprofit organizations in India should receive support from the donation. The Foundation then receives the donation and provides a donation acknowledgement (if applicable), aggregates all funds received and sends them to the recipient organizations monthly. The Foundation also provides Certificate of Donation Form 10BEs on an annual basis. 

Although your donation is to the Foundation and disbursements are within its discretion, your advice ordinarily results in a disbursement from the Foundation — along with funds from other donors — to the recommended organization. In the unlikely event that donor advice will not or cannot be followed for a particular organization (e.g., it no longer exists, is no longer a nonprofit, does not accept the donation), the Foundation will disburse the funds to a similar nonprofit organization on your behalf.

How does OGF help charities in India?

OGF’s primary purpose is to raise, aggregate and send charitable donations to nonprofit organizations as efficiently as possible. 

Our commitment to reducing costs

OGF is committed to reducing the costs of charitable giving by streamlining how donations are sent to charitable and nonprofit organizations. With a single aggregate monthly donation from OGF, these organizations are no longer required to perform manually intensive administrative tasks, generate and distribute donation receipts or verify individual donations manually.

Have you received funds from OGF?

You may be visiting this site because your organization received a payment from OGF. This was made possible by employees or customers of companies recommending support for your organization using the Benevity online platform.

We encourage you to complete your Cause Profile in the Benevity Causes Portal so you can increase your opportunity to connect with additional donors.