Transparency
Reports, registrations and disclosures
Everything a donor, a CSR committee or an auditor needs to verify Scapex Foundation, on one page: our statutory registrations with their numbers and validity, the policies we operate under, and every report and set of accounts we publish — stacked by year as they are produced. Where a document does not yet exist because the organisation is in its first financial year, the page says so and gives the date it is due.
Statutory registrations
Registrations and identifiers
Each identifier can be checked on the issuing authority's own portal. We would rather you verified than took our word for it.
| Registration | Authority | Number | Status / validity | Where to verify |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Incorporation — Section 8 company | Ministry of Corporate Affairs, RoC Gujarat | CIN U85500GJ2025NPL166916 | Active | MCA master-data portal (search by CIN) |
| NGO Darpan | NITI Aayog | GJ/2025/0834167 | Registered | NGO Darpan portal (search by Unique ID) |
| Section 12A / 12AB | Income Tax Department | Registration number to be published here | Registered · validity period to be published with the number | Income-tax e-filing portal, “Tax Exemption Institutions” search |
| Section 80G | Income Tax Department | Registration number to be published here | Registered · validity period to be published with the number | Income-tax e-filing portal; Form 10BE issued to each donor annually |
| PAN | Income Tax Department | To be published here | — | Printed on every donation receipt |
| Form CSR-1 (CSR implementing agency) | Ministry of Corporate Affairs | — | Not yet eligible · Rule 4(1)(d) requires a three-year track record; On completion of the three-year track record | MCA CSR portal once issued |
| FCRA | Ministry of Home Affairs | — | Not registered · no foreign contributions accepted; Earliest application on completion of the qualifying period | FCRA online portal |
| Social Stock Exchange | SEBI / NSE-BSE SSE segment | — | Not registered · requires operating history under SEBI norms | Exchange SSE listing pages |
Documents by year
Reports and accounts
Scapex Foundation is in its first financial year. Nothing below is back-dated or estimated; each row states what exists and when the rest is due.
| Financial year | Audited annual accounts | Annual report | CSR utilisation statements | Programme baseline / endline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First financial year | Published here within 90 days of the year's close. The closing date of the first financial year depends on the incorporation date under Section 2(41) of the Companies Act, 2013 and will be stated here once confirmed by the statutory auditor. | First annual report published with the first audited accounts | Issued to each partner quarterly from the first project; consolidated statement signed by the statutory auditor published with the accounts | Baseline survey opens September 2026 across the first blocks; instrument and sample published here on completion |
| Subsequent years | Within 90 days of each 31 March | With the accounts | Quarterly | Midline in-year; endline at programme close |
Accounts within 90 days
Audited accounts are published on this page within 90 days of the financial year end, before the statutory filing deadline, whether or not the numbers flatter us.
85% programme-spend floor
The board has set a floor of 85% of expenditure on direct programme delivery, with administration and fundraising capped at 15%. The ratio is reported in the accounts; if it is missed, the reason is stated here.
Results published either way
Every programme's baseline, midline and endline go on this page, with the instrument and the sample, regardless of outcome.
Policies
The policies we operate under
Child safeguarding policy
Commitments, conduct rules for staff and volunteers, police verification, and how to report a concern.
Effective Sept 2026Donation terms and refund policy
How donations are received, receipted under 80G, used, and refunded when made in error.
Effective Sept 2026Privacy policy
What the website collects, why, for how long, and your rights under the DPDP Act, 2023.
Stated plainlyCSR compliance position
Why Form CSR-1 follows later, and the three compliant routes open to companies now.
Photography
Image credits and licences
Scapex Foundation does not yet have photographs of its own programmes. Until it does, the site uses licensed representative photographs, credited below. None of the people shown are Scapex beneficiaries, staff or volunteers, and no image is presented as a Scapex project. Each will be replaced by our own consented programme photography as sites open.
| Image | Photographer / rights holder | Source | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children in blue uniforms listening in a government-school classroom in India | Swastik Arora | Unsplash photo-1692269725836-fbd72e98883f | Unsplash License (free for commercial use, no attribution required) |
| Four women in saris seated together outdoors in an Indian village, as at a self-help group meeting | see source page | Unsplash photo-1708593337380-6f97a307696f | Unsplash License (free for commercial use, no attribution required) |
| Young women trainees in uniform at a vocational training institute in India | see source page | Unsplash photo-1774850743402-71b7456e567d | Unsplash License (free for commercial use, no attribution required) |
| Aerial view of a village pond surrounded by green fields in rural India | see source page | Unsplash photo-1788976865016-23f3a922e8f2 | Unsplash License (free for commercial use, no attribution required) |
| A woman plants a sapling in a village in India while a small girl watches | McKay Savage | Wikimedia Commons | CC BY 2.0 |
| A doctor examines a young child held by her mother at a free government health camp in India | Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India | Wikimedia Commons | GODL-India |
Request documents
For due-diligence files
A company's CSR committee, a foundation or an institutional donor may request the incorporation certificate, memorandum and articles of association, 12A and 80G certificates, PAN, board resolutions, the latest bank statement summary and the auditor's appointment letter for its due-diligence file. Write to info@scapexfoundation.com with the name of the organisation and the purpose; documents are sent within two working days. Site visits to programme locations are open to partners on request.