Building in the open
This page holds our registrations, governance, safeguarding, and financials — real numbers where they exist, honest in-progress states until then. It will fill in as we do.
India
Section 8 company (in progress)
- Entity
- in progress
- CIN
- in progress
- 12A registration
- in progress
- 80G registration
- in progress
- CSR-1
- in progress
- Registered address
- in progress
United States
501(c)(3) (in progress)
- Entity
- in progress
- EIN
- in progress
- Determination
- in progress
- Registered address
- in progress
Until both registrations complete, CanvasCode takes no donations and runs no programs with children — groundwork only: partners, policy, curriculum, and this site.
Governance
An independent board of five to seven — including nonprofit-operations experience, a child-protection professional, and finance and audit expertise — will be in place by the end of our founding phase. The founder holds one seat and does not chair the audit function. Members will be listed here when appointed. Standard hygiene from day one: conflict-of-interest policy, annual statutory audits, board minutes, and a published annual report with real numbers.
Safeguarding
Our child-safeguarding policy follows the Keeping Children Safe international standards and India’s legal framework, and it exists before any program touches a child — a precondition, not a promise. We commit to an annual safeguarding review reported to the board. Read the policy →
Financials
Published annually from our first full year — audited statements in both countries, and program cost per child from the pilot onward. No source will exceed 40% of our budget once we scale. Donors fund a number they can interrogate, not a feeling.
Documents
As they are finalized, this section will hold the charter-derived one-pager, the child-safeguarding policy as a signed PDF, MOU templates, and annual reports. If you need something sooner, ask us directly.
Why publish before there is much to publish? Because the habit matters more than the numbers. An organization that starts honest when it is small has a chance of staying honest when it is big. We publish results either way — including the disappointing ones.