India Development and Relief Fund

Since its inception in 1988, IDRF has disbursed $34 million[3] in grants to various developmental programs pertaining to areas like:  education, health, women's empowerment, eco-friendly development, good governance, and disaster relief/rehabilitation.

Women empowerment: Eco-friendly development: IDRF funds programs that facilitate rural enterprises by incorporating clean-energy technology and practices and also in conservation of biodiversity and natural resources.

Disaster relief and rehabilitation: Good governance In 2002 a coalition of professionals, students, workers, artists and intellectuals in the US organized "The Campaign to Stop Funding Hate".

When IDRF filed a tax document in 1989 with the United States Internal Revenue Service, it identified nine organisations as a sample of those it would fund, all of which were associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

Dr. Vinod and Sarla Prakash met the then Indian Home Minister Mr. Lal Krishna Advani and furnished him detailed information about IDRF's grants to various NGOs in India.

Dr. Vinod and Sarla Prakash conferred with Manav Seva Sarvodaya Award by National Council of Asian Indian Association, Governor Larry Hogan and Indian American Community on 69th Indian Republic Day celebrations in Maryland, January 26, 2018
IDRF supports programs that improve/provide: education, healthcare, women empowerment, good-governance, and disaster relief/rehabilitation and eco-friendly livelihoods at grass-roots level.