SankalpTaru Foundation
Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India 路 Nonprofit 路 National 路 since 2012
Tech-enabled tree planting with rural farmers across 28 Indian states, every tree geotagged
About
SankalpTaru Foundation is an Indian NGO founded in 2012 and headquartered in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, that lets individuals and companies plant and gift geotagged trees online. Most trees are fruit and other livelihood species planted on smallholder farmers' land under its Rural Livelihood Support Plantation Program, alongside urban plantations and desert rewilding work in the Thar Desert and Ladakh. It reported 2.21 million trees planted in FY2024-25 and says it has planted more than 10 million trees that survived. It also runs water-harvesting, biogas and farmer-training projects.
What they run
Plants fruit-bearing and other income trees on the land of identified smallholder farmer beneficiaries, who own the trees and the harvest.
Planting and rainwater-harvesting projects on arid land in Rajasthan (Thar Desert Research Centre, Barmer; Ghotaru) and Ladakh (Cold Desert Research Centre, Phyang).
Online platform where donors plant or gift individual geotagged trees, tracked by a unique ID with photos and location.
The numbers
| Metric | Year | Value | Program | Confidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hectares restored | 2024 | 890 | Organization-wide | Estimated | sourceAnnual Report 2024-25, p.6: 'Total Area Greenified (in acres) 2200 Acres'; converted at 0.4047 ha per acre |
| Survival rate (%) | 2024 | 85 | Organization-wide | Self-reported | sourceAnnual Report 2024-25, p.6: 'Survival Rate of Trees Planted 85-90 %'; lower bound recorded |
| Trees planted | 2024 | 2,212,810 | Organization-wide | Self-reported | sourceAnnual Report 2024-25, p.6 'Year in Number: 2024-25': '2212810 Trees' planted from April 2024 to March 2025 |
| Trees plantedto date | 2025 | 10,000,000 | Organization-wide | Self-reported | sourceAnnual Report 2024-25, p.3 leadership message: 'This year, we crossed a historic milestone of 10 million trees successfully planted and survived' |
| Trees plantedto date | 2026 | 14,000,000 | Organization-wide | Self-reported | sourceHomepage counter, Nov 2026: '14M+ Trees planted & survived', '1700+ Partners' |
How they report
What earned it
- 5/20 Publishes annual tree figures: 1 year of annual figures on record (5 points each, up to 4 years)
- 15/15 Figures are recent: Latest annual figure is for 2024
- 10/10 Every figure has a public source: 5 of 5 figures link to a source
- 0/15 Publishes financials or cost per tree: No financial figure recorded
- 15/15 Reports survival or monitoring: Survival rate on record
- 0/10 Independently verified figure: All figures are the organization's own
- 4/10 Breaks figures down by program: Programs named, figures not broken out
- 0/5 Reports volunteers or events: No volunteer figures or events
- Latest annual figure
- 2,212,810 trees in 2024
- Survival
- 85% (2024, reported)
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Upcoming events
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