Non-profits & institutions

The compliance calendar here is unforgiving in a specific way: FCRA registration renewal is expected at least six months before expiry, 12AB registration starts provisional and has to be converted to regular status on its own separate deadline, and Form 10BD donor reporting is due 31 May every year regardless of what else is happening. None of these extend for incomplete paperwork, and a lapsed FCRA registration blocks foreign funding entirely until it's restored: an operational gap, not just a paperwork one. See how one organisation renewed against exactly this kind of deadline in our case study.

For the CSR-1 registration step specifically (what makes an organisation eligible to legally receive corporate CSR funding in the first place) see CSR compliance in India, from both sides of the funding relationship.