page_title: Tata Group
section_title: Philanthropy
hierarchical_section_title: Tata Group / Philanthropy
caption_attribution_description: English: = Ratan Tata, Charmain of the Tata Group
context_page_description: Tata Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Founded in 1868 by Jamsetji Tata, the company gained international recognition after purchasing several global companies. One of India's largest conglomerates, Tata Group is owned by Tata Sons. It is one of the biggest and oldest industrial groups in the country, founded 153 years ago in 1868.
  Each Tata company operates independently under the guidance and supervision of its own board of directors and shareholders.
  Significant Tata companies and subsidiaries include Tata Chemicals, Tata Communications, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Consumer Products, Tata Elxsi, Tata Motors, Tata Power, Tata Steel, Voltas, Tata Cliq, Titan, Trent, Indian Hotels Company Limited, TajAir, TATA AutoComp systems Ltd, Vistara, Cromā and Indicash.
context_section_description: Tata Group has helped establish and finance numerous research, educational and cultural institutes in India, and received the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy. Some of the institutes established by the Tata Group are:
  Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
  The Energy and Resources Institute (formerly known as Tata Energy and Research Institute), a non-governmental research institute
  The JRD Tata Ecotechnology Centre
  National Centre for Performing Arts
  Tata Center for Technology & Design at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Tata Centre for Technology & Design at IIT Bombay
  Tata Cricket Academy
  Tata Football Academy
  Tata Institute of Social Sciences
  Tata Management Training Centre
  Tata Medical Center, inaugurated on 16 May 2011 by Ratan Tata
  Tata Memorial Hospital
  Tata Cancer Hospital
  Tata Trusts, a group of philanthropic organisations run by the head of the business conglomerate Tata Sons
  In 2008, Tata Group donated US$50 million to Cornell University for "agricultural and nutrition programs in India and for the education of Indian students at Cornell."
  In 2010, Tata Group donated ₹ 2.20 billion (US$50 million) to the Harvard Business School to build an academic and a residential building for executive education programmes on the institute's campus in Boston, Massachusetts. The building, now known as Tata Hall, is the largest endowment received by Harvard Business School from an international donor.
  In 2017, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) donated an unprecedented $35 million grant to Carnegie Mellon University, the largest ever industry donation to the university, to collaborate on promoting next-generation technologies that will drive the Fourth Industrial Revolution, including cognitive systems and autonomous vehicles.
  In 2017, the Tata Football Academy won the bid to form the Jamshedpur FC, a football club based on Jamshedpur of Jharkhand in the 4th edition of the Indian Super League.
  In 2020, Tata Group has donated 1500 crores to PM Cares Fund to fight against COVID-19 pandemic in India.
caption: Ratan Tata, the former chairman of Tata Group[22]
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