Registered Public Charitable Trust · Odisha · Est. 2026

Born From
Odisha.
Built For
Odisha.

JaBaSu Trust was created by people who have worked inside Odisha's social sector — as NGO leaders, corporate CSR managers, and government programme officers — and who understood exactly why the system was failing every actor within it.

Type: Registered Public Charitable Trust Founded: 2026 · Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India Registrations: 12A · 80G · CSR-1 (MCA) · DARPAN (Niti Aayog) Scope: All 30 districts of Odisha · 9 Thematic Sectors
JaBaSu
JaBaSu Trust
"A name that is personal, intentional,
and rooted in Odisha."
An honest note
We Started in 2026. Here Is What That Means.
"The social sector has a long tradition of presenting itself as more established than it is. We are not going to do that."

JaBaSu Trust was registered as a public charitable trust in Bhubaneswar, Odisha in 2026. We are, at the time of writing, in our founding year — onboarding our first cohort of partner NGOs, building our technology platform, establishing our corporate and government partnerships, and doing the unglamorous work of building an institution from scratch.

We are telling you this plainly because we think you deserve to know it. The social sector has a long tradition of organisations presenting themselves as more established than they are — of letting website design substitute for track record, of listing aspirational numbers without distinguishing them from current ones. We are not going to do that.

What we have at this stage is not a decade of case studies. What we have is something different: a decade of direct experience inside the systems we are trying to fix — as NGO managers, CSR programme designers, and social sector consultants who have sat on all three sides of the problem. That cross-sector vantage point is what produced this model. It is not theory borrowed from a textbook.

We have also done something that organisations with years of track record often do not bother to do: we have published our model, our theory of change, our financial projections, and our governance structure — openly, on this website and in our downloadable framework document. We are accountable to them. When we have case studies — and we will — you will be able to judge whether we delivered what we said we would.

If you are an NGO considering joining our ecosystem, a corporate considering a CSR partnership, or a government body considering collaboration: we ask you to evaluate us on the clarity of the model we have built and the people who built it. That is a fair basis on which to begin.

Read the full model document
The JaBaSu Model: A Framework for Full-Stack NGO Enablement in Odisha — Version 1.0, 2026
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The Story Behind
the Organisation

JaBaSu Trust was conceived from a deep understanding of Odisha's social sector landscape — its extraordinary richness, and its extraordinary frustrations. Odisha is home to one of India's most complex tapestries of development challenges: among the country's highest tribal populations, persistent child malnutrition, significant gender gaps, and communities that have waited too long for the benefits of the state's growing prosperity to reach them.

The founders of JaBaSu Trust — with experience spanning corporate CSR management, grassroots NGO leadership, government programme implementation, and social sector consulting — came together with a shared diagnosis: the problem was never a shortage of goodwill, talent, or resources. It was a broken architecture. Fragmented. Unconnected. Inefficient. Invisible.

"The best NGOs in Odisha are not the ones with the best accounts teams. They are the ones with the deepest community relationships. JaBaSu exists to make those two things separable."

JaBaSu Trust is registered as a public charitable trust under the Indian Trusts Act, headquartered in Bhubaneswar, with district hubs in Koraput and Sambalpur — serving the state's southern tribal belt and western regions respectively.

The name JaBaSu is personal and intentional — carrying meaning that is close to the founders' hearts and rooted in the culture of the land the Trust serves. It represents the reverence, the love, and the deep sense of accountability to Odisha that drives everything we do.

Founded
2026
Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
Legal Status
Public Charitable Trust
Registered under the Indian Trusts Act · 12A & 80G certified
Headquarters
Bhubaneswar
District hubs: Koraput & Sambalpur
Thematic Sectors
9
Child Welfare, Women, Social Justice & Tribal Welfare, Education, Culture, Skill, Environment, Health, Agriculture
Year 5 Ambition
300+ NGOs · ₹50Cr
Annual CSR flows across all 30 Odisha districts
Operational Platform
Integrated Support Infrastructure
Bilingual service delivery · Partner onboarding · Donation-ready workflows
What We Stand For

Core Values

Six values that are not aspirational statements — they are operational commitments, woven into every partnership agreement, every service, and every interaction.

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Subsidiarity

We do what NGOs cannot or should not have to do — not what they can do themselves. We enable, never replace. Programmatic autonomy is inviolable. Our role is to remove friction, not to add layers.

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Radical Transparency

Every rupee, every outcome, every partnership is documented and publicly accessible. No opacity in any direction — toward NGOs, corporates, government, or the communities we ultimately serve.

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Equity

Small NGOs with big hearts get the same professional infrastructure as large ones. Scale of JaBaSu support must not — and does not — depend on the scale of the NGO. This is equity designed into the model.

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Systems Thinking

We work across sectors because poverty, illiteracy, gender inequality, and cultural loss are not separate problems. The intersections are where lasting change lives. Siloed programmes produce siloed results.

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Rootedness

Every decision is grounded in Odisha's geography, culture, language, and lived realities. We are not a national model seeking Odisha data — we are an Odisha organisation, first and always.

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Trust Architecture

We earn the trust of government, enterprises, and NGOs simultaneously — through consistent delivery, accountability, and evidence. Trust, once built at scale, is the only infrastructure that outlasts any technology.

The People Behind This

The Founding Team

JaBaSu was built by people who have worked inside the systems it is trying to fix — as NGO managers, CSR programme designers, and social sector consultants with roots in Odisha. Their backgrounds are not credentials on a wall. They are the source of the diagnosis.

Binit Agrawala
Binit Agrawala
Co-Founder & Executive Director

Binit has spent the better part of a decade watching the same story repeat itself across Odisha's social sector. An NGO in Koraput doing extraordinary work with tribal children — invisible to every corporate CSR team in Bhubaneswar. A company with ₹2 crore sitting in its CSR account, unable to find a credible partner it trusts. A district collector who knows exactly which schemes are failing at the last mile but has no structured civil society relationship to fix it.

He built JaBaSu Trust to end that story.

Before founding JaBaSu, Binit worked across corporate sustainability, social sector consulting, and programme implementation in Odisha — observing the same structural gap from three different vantage points. That cross-sector perspective is the foundation of JaBaSu's three-way bridge model: not theory borrowed from a textbook, but a pattern recognised through years of being in the room when the system failed.

Binit is from Odisha. He believes the state's NGO ecosystem is one of India's most underinvested assets — and that fixing the infrastructure around it will unlock a generation of community impact that is currently sitting dormant.

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Founding Advisory Council

JaBaSu's founding advisory council brings together individuals who have, collectively, spent decades inside the systems JaBaSu is trying to connect — Odisha's government departments, its civil society organisations, its corporate sector, and its academic institutions.

They have not joined JaBaSu because we asked them to endorse our work. They joined because they recognise the problem we are solving — and believe the model we have designed is the right response to it.

A high-trust advisory structure is now outlined publicly on our dedicated governance page.

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"We are not consultants who advise and leave. We are the people who showed up on the wrong side of this problem — and decided to fix the plumbing."
The JaBaSu Founding Team
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Governance & Accountability

Legal Registrations
12A80GCSR-1 (MCA) DARPANFCRA (Year 2)Indian Trusts Act

Advisory Council Composition

Eminent Odias from diverse backgrounds — retired IAS/IFS officers, Padma awardees in social work, prominent artists and craftspersons, social entrepreneurs, academics from Odisha's leading universities, and diaspora leaders — providing strategic guidance and institutional credibility to the Board of Trustees. Read the advisory structure.

Transparency Commitments
  • Annual audited accounts published publicly on website
  • Annual ecosystem impact report with verified outcome data
  • Open-door policy — site visits available to all funders
  • Grievance mechanism for NGOs, communities & donors
  • Maximum 15% overheads — CSR pass-throughs ring-fenced
  • Quarterly financial reports to Board of Trustees
  • Independent mid-term and final programme assessments
  • Public disclosure of all corporate partnerships & amounts
Research & Positioning

How JaBaSu Fits the
Global & Indian Landscape

Rigorous research across comparable organisations in India and globally confirms JaBaSu's unique position — and reveals the gap no other organisation is filling.

India — Key Comparable Organisations
VerifyGuideStar India

Excellent NGO verification and transparency platform — 12,000+ NGOs. Provides directory and credibility layer. Does not provide back office, compliance management, or web presence.

AdvisoryDasra

India's premier philanthropy advisory since 1999. Catalysed $330M+ for Indian NGOs at national scale. High-end, select — not operational backbone for grassroots NGOs or Odisha-focused.

CSR MediaCSRBOX / Samhita

CSR knowledge platforms and corporate-facing advisory. Strong on connecting corporates to NGOs. Do not provide NGO operational support or web presence as a platform service.

MatchingIndia is Us (i2u)

Delhi-based CSR lifecycle management working across 12 sectors. Closest structural model on CSR-NGO matching in India — but urban-focused and without full operational enablement.

Global — Key Comparable Organisations
TechTechSoup Global

Serves 1.4 million NGOs in 200+ countries with $15B+ tech resources. Brilliant at technology access for NGOs globally. Does not do CSR facilitation, compliance, back office, or web presence.

IncubateNPI (Non Profit Incubator, China)

The globally closest model — China's largest NGO incubator since 2006, operating in 50+ cities. Provides office space, IT, training, govt liaison, corporate connections. JaBaSu adds web presence, CSR regulation, and Odisha-rooted sectoral depth.

ConsultingBridgespan Group

Gold standard for NGO strategy consulting globally. Serves well-resourced, established organisations. Premium advisory model — not a back-office enabler for grassroots NGOs.

EcosystemAga Khan Development Network

The aspirational ceiling — self-sustaining, multi-sector development ecosystem in 30 countries, $925M+ annually. Represents the long-term vision for what JaBaSu could evolve toward over decades.

The Unique Gap JaBaSu Fills

No organisation in India — and only partially NPI China globally — simultaneously provides complete operational back office to grassroots NGOs, builds individual web presence for each partner as a platform service, functions as a three-way bridge in a CSR-regulated framework, is geographically rooted in an underserved region with a clear sectoral mandate, and is itself a direct social actor. JaBaSu's uniqueness is not in any single service — it is in the integration of all of them, anchored to Odisha.