Our Story

Built to Fix a
Problem That
Should Not Exist.

India has millions of NGOs doing important work. India has thousands of crores in CSR funding looking for credible partners. And yet the two cannot reliably find each other. PATVAAR is our answer to that.

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2026
Year PATVAAR was founded
Delhi
Headquartered at Netaji Subhash Place
Beta
Current stage — early access is free
7 days
Target verification turnaround
Why PATVAAR Exists

The Problem We Are Solving

India has over 3.3 million registered NGOs — one of the largest civil society ecosystems in the world. Yet fewer than 1% have any standardised, publicly accessible credibility signal that a funder can rely on.

CSR teams at major corporations spend weeks on due diligence for each implementation partner, relying on personal referrals, WhatsApp groups and gut instinct. The process is slow, inconsistent and heavily biased towards organisations with existing networks — not necessarily the most effective ones.

Meanwhile, thousands of capable NGOs working in India's most underserved districts remain invisible to funders — not because their work is poor, but because they have no institutional presentation and no connection to the networks where funding decisions are made.

PATVAAR is being built to fix this. Not with a directory. Not with a donation button. But with infrastructure — the kind of verified, structured, data-driven infrastructure that the sector has never had before.

₹25,000Cr+
India's total corporate CSR spend in FY2023–24. The majority flows to a concentrated set of organisations with established networks — not necessarily the most effective ones.
Source: Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Annual CSR Report FY24
For NGOs — Credibility Has No Standard
There is no shared language for NGO credibility in India. Each CSR team has its own checklist. Each foundation its own due diligence process. The same NGO answers the same questions, repeatedly, for every funder it approaches.
For CSR Teams — Due Diligence Is Broken
Weeks of calls, document requests and site visits — repeated for every potential partner. There is no standardised, structured way to assess NGO credibility, track record or compliance status at scale.
For Funders — Impact Cannot Be Measured
Annual reports are narrative PDFs. Utilisation certificates are single-page forms. There is no live, auditable system for tracking what a rupee of CSR funding actually achieves on the ground.
The Opportunity
India's development sector is large enough to justify serious infrastructure. PATVAAR is building that infrastructure — methodically, document by document, verification by verification.
What We Stand For

Three Principles.
No Exceptions.

Verified, Not Self-Reported
Every data point on PATVAAR is either sourced from public filings or manually verified by our team. We do not publish what organisations say about themselves — we publish what we can confirm from documents.
Transparent by Design
Our Trust Score methodology is published in full. Our fee structure is public. Our verification criteria are documented and available to anyone. If we cannot explain how we reached a conclusion, we do not publish it.
Outcomes, Not Intentions
We measure what changed, not what was planned. PATVAAR's impact tracking is built around verified beneficiary data, third-party assessments and audited utilisation — not narrative storytelling or projected numbers.
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Sandeep Kumar
Founder, PATVAAR
Netaji Subhash Place, Delhi 110034
Founded PATVAAR · 2026
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A Message from the Founder

"India's impact sector deserves infrastructure, not just goodwill."

The problem was obvious to anyone who had spent time in the sector. Excellent NGOs, invisible to funders. Credible CSR teams, overwhelmed by due diligence. Impact, unmeasured and unacknowledged. The infrastructure to fix this simply did not exist.

I founded PATVAAR in 2026 with a single conviction: that the disconnect between capable NGOs and purposeful capital is not a problem of intent — it is a problem of infrastructure. Trust has no standard. Verification has no system. Impact has no shared language.

PATVAAR is our attempt to build that infrastructure — one verified organisation at a time. We are at the beginning. The platform is in Beta. Every verification, every Trust Score, every data point is being built with the same question: can we stand behind this?

We are not trying to be a donation platform. We are not trying to be a charity aggregator. We are building the equivalent of a credit bureau for India's impact sector — rigorous, transparent and built to last.

If you believe this matters, join us early. Your feedback during Beta will shape what PATVAAR becomes.

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Our Journey

From Conviction
to Platform.

PATVAAR began as a response to a structural gap in India's impact sector. Every milestone represents a real problem we identified and began building a solution for.

We are actively building.
PATVAAR is a work in progress. The platform you see today is our Beta. We share this timeline not as a record of achievement, but as a commitment to honesty about where we are and where we are going.
Early 2026
PATVAAR is Founded
Sandeep Kumar founds PATVAAR in Delhi, identifying the structural gap between NGO credibility and funder access as the core problem to solve.
2026 — Q1
Trust Score Methodology Built
The four-dimension Trust Score framework — Transparency, Governance, Financial Health, Impact Track Record — is developed and documented in consultation with CSR compliance requirements.
2026 — Q2
Platform Beta Launches
PATVAAR opens for Beta registrations. NGOs, CSR teams and donors can register and access the verification process free of charge during this phase.
Now — Beta
Active Beta — Building the Registry
We are onboarding verified NGOs, refining our verification process and building the marketplace and impact tracking tools. This is where we are today.
Planned — 2026
Full Public Launch
Full marketplace, CSR mandate posting, impact dashboards and SDG calculator. Date to be confirmed as Beta progresses.
Be Part of What
We Are Building.

Whether you run an NGO, lead a CSR team or fund social change — PATVAAR is the infrastructure India's impact sector has been waiting for. Join us while it's being built.

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