We work inside institutions.
Not around them

SRM Foundation is the social impact arm of the SRM Group. A Section 8 not-for-profit incorporated in 2021, built on the belief that India’s education and healthcare institutions don’t need to be replaced. They need to be strengthened from within, with the same rigour and commitment that built the SRM Group’s own institutions over four decades.

India's institutions serve the majority of its people. They deserve the best of what we know how to build.

Healthcare systems, skill centres, and schools are not second-best institutions. They are the institutions that most of India depends on every day. Our work is to make them function better. Not by building parallel systems, but by working within the ones already there.
We have learned three things from doing this work. You have to work with institutions, not around them. Local leadership inside every institution understands their reality better than we ever will โ€” they must be at the centre of every intervention. And you move forward with what is possible rather than waiting for what is perfect.

Dr. P. Sathyanarayanan

Founder & Managing Trustee
SRM Foundation

Dr. P. Sathyanarayanan

Founder & Managing Trustee
SRM Foundation

Backed by an institution that has spent four decades building institutions.

SRM Foundation is part of the SRM Group, one of India’s leading institution-building organisations across education, healthcare, and technology.

Backed by an institution that has spent four decades building institutions.

SRM Foundation is part of the SRM Group, one of India’s leading institution-building organisations across education, healthcare, and technology.
In education alone, the Group has invested four decades:
SRM Foundation is part of the SRM Group, one of India’s leading institution-building organisations across education, healthcare, and technology.
SRM Foundation brings that same commitment to institution-building into education and healthcare. We are operationally independent, co-designing with institutional partners, funded through CSR and philanthropic partnerships, and accountable to the communities we serve.

Vision

To create sustainable and transformative social impact through research-driven and innovative initiatives in health, education, skill development, and environmental sustainability empowering communities for a brighter and more equitable future.

Mission

SRM Foundation is dedicated to nurturing values in children, youth, and women while promoting service to humanity. Through continuous research, innovation, and evidence-based development, we empower underprivileged communities especially youth and women to become agents of positive and measurable change.

The people behind the work

Trustee

Dr. P. Sathyanarayanan

Founder & Managing Trustee
SRM Foundation

Overview

Multi-specialty health camps every month. Water body conservation and restoration. Systems that serve communities, not just events that visit them.

Mrs. Manimangai Sathyanarayanan

Managing Trustee - SRM Foundation

Overview

Multi-specialty health camps every month. Water body conservation and restoration. Systems that serve communities, not just events that visit them.

Leadership Team

Rajeswari Dhar

CSR Head
SRM Foundation

Overview

Multi-specialty health camps every month. Water body conservation and restoration. Systems that serve communities, not just events that visit them.

Advisors

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Jane Doe

Advisors
SRM Foundation

Overview

Multi-specialty health camps every month. Water body conservation and restoration. Systems that serve communities, not just events that visit them.
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Jane Doe

Advisors
SRM Foundation

Overview

Multi-specialty health camps every month. Water body conservation and restoration. Systems that serve communities, not just events that visit them.
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Jane Doe

Advisors
SRM Foundation

Overview

Multi-specialty health camps every month. Water body conservation and restoration. Systems that serve communities, not just events that visit them.

Partners

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Jane Doe

Advisors
SRM Foundation

Overview

Multi-specialty health camps every month. Water body conservation and restoration. Systems that serve communities, not just events that visit them.
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Jane Doe

Advisors
SRM Foundation

Overview

Multi-specialty health camps every month. Water body conservation and restoration. Systems that serve communities, not just events that visit them.
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Jane Doe

Advisors
SRM Foundation

Overview

Multi-specialty health camps every month. Water body conservation and restoration. Systems that serve communities, not just events that visit them.
SRM Foundation is incorporated as a Section 8 not-for-profit company under the Companies Act, registered on 13 October 2021 with the Registrar of Companies, Chennai.
CIN: U85300TN2021NPL147044.
We are 80G certified, CSR-1 registered, and 12A compliant โ€” enabling fully tax-compliant CSR deployment for all corporate partners.
Every CSR partnership is supported by complete compliance documentation, quarterly impact reporting, and audit-ready financial records.

Certifications

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Dr. P. Sathyanarayanan

Founder & Managing Trustee
SRM Foundation

Dr. P. Sathyanarayanan founded SRM Technologies in 1998 and has since built one of India’s most wide-ranging institutional ecosystems spanning higher education, healthcare, media, construction, and technology. As Vice-Chancellor of SRM University from 2003 to 2010, he led the institution to full university status, established an International Advisory Board with academics from Harvard, MIT, Kellogg, and Carnegie Mellon, and drove its first international accreditations.
In 2013, he established SRM University Sikkim to extend the Group’s educational reach to India’s northeast. He currently serves as Pro-Chancellor of SRM University AP (Amaravati) and President of the SRM Group. Dr. Sathyanarayanan holds a Bachelor’s in Engineering from Anna University Chennai, a Master of Science from Northeastern University USA, and a doctoral degree from Southern Cross University Sydney, Australia
He founded SRM Foundation on the conviction that the same rigour which built the SRM Group’s institutions belongs inside India’s public sector too.

Mrs. Manimangai Sathyanarayanan

Managing Trustee - SRM Foundation

Dr. P. Sathyanarayanan founded SRM Technologies in 1998 and has since built one of India’s most wide-ranging institutional ecosystems spanning higher education, healthcare, media, construction, and technology. As Vice-Chancellor of SRM University from 2003 to 2010, he led the institution to full university status, established an International Advisory Board with academics from Harvard, MIT, Kellogg, and Carnegie Mellon, and drove its first international accreditations.
In 2013, he established SRM University Sikkim to extend the Group’s educational reach to India’s northeast. He currently serves as Pro-Chancellor of SRM University AP (Amaravati) and President of the SRM Group. Dr. Sathyanarayanan holds a Bachelor’s in Engineering from Anna University Chennai, a Master of Science from Northeastern University USA, and a doctoral degree from Southern Cross University Sydney, Australia
He founded SRM Foundation on the conviction that the same rigour which built the SRM Group’s institutions belongs inside India’s public sector too.

Rajeswari Dhar

CSR Head
SRM Foundation

Dr. P. Sathyanarayanan founded SRM Technologies in 1998 and has since built one of India’s most wide-ranging institutional ecosystems spanning higher education, healthcare, media, construction, and technology. As Vice-Chancellor of SRM University from 2003 to 2010, he led the institution to full university status, established an International Advisory Board with academics from Harvard, MIT, Kellogg, and Carnegie Mellon, and drove its first international accreditations.
In 2013, he established SRM University Sikkim to extend the Group’s educational reach to India’s northeast. He currently serves as Pro-Chancellor of SRM University AP (Amaravati) and President of the SRM Group. Dr. Sathyanarayanan holds a Bachelor’s in Engineering from Anna University Chennai, a Master of Science from Northeastern University USA, and a doctoral degree from Southern Cross University Sydney, Australia
He founded SRM Foundation on the conviction that the same rigour which built the SRM Group’s institutions belongs inside India’s public sector too.