In 2015-16, foreign donations worth INR 17,620 crore were made to Indian nonprofits. This figure was 16 percent higher than the previous year’s figure. The data shows uneven distribution of foreign donations among Indian states. Fifty-nine percent of all foreign funds received in 2016-17 was disbursed in Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Maharashtra,2 which together have 38 percent of all FCRA-registered nonprofits, and only about 16 percent of the country’s population. Additionally, 45 percent of FCRA registered nonprofits in India, on average for the past eight years, did not receive any funding. Moreover, in 2016-17, the top 20 recipients formed only 0.1 percent of all the nonprofits, but received about 15 percent of foreign donations. As mentioned above, nonprofits register to obtain foreign donations under one of five listed purposes. Data from 2015 to 2017 shows the highest proportion of donation was made under ‘social’, at 59 percent.