India Foundation for the Arts

Founded in 1993, India Foundation for the Arts is a grant-making foundation based in Bangalore, India working on arts & culture, education, heritage.

India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) is an independent not-for-profit that supports practice, research and education in the arts and culture across India. Set up as a Public Charitable Trust in 1993, it began making project grants in 1995. IFA funds arts and culture projects, including school-based projects in several states that use folk arts, local history and literature in the curriculum. It also runs The IFA Archive, which documents supported projects from 1995 onward and makes a representative selection of their materials available online, with more held at a physical archive in Bangalore by appointment. IFA holds public events such as Open House and Date with the Archive to discuss archival practice. It works across India.