North South Foundation is a non-profit organization established in Illinois in 1989. It received tax-exempt status under the IRS Section 501(c)(3). All donations are tax-deductible.

Our Mission is to promote excellence in human endeavor, to develop human resources, to help people achieve success regardless of religion, gender, caste, geographic origin by giving hope to those who may have none.

The Foundation is all-volunteer driven. While organizing events, we strive to get discounts from our vendors and sponsorships for our awards. These measures keep our expenses down and channel donated funds more towards helping the needy. Our overhead is five percent or less.

The Foundation provides college scholarships in India to children who excel academically among the poor families. The scholarship distribution process is very systematic and closely monitored by the coordinators in India. Most centers in India have retired professionals and prominent individuals supervising the process and following the guidelines.   

The educational contests in the US are designed to encourage excellence among the Indian American children and prepare them to enter into better colleges. Over the years, NSF children have demonstrated superior academic performance and many have managed to enter into the top ranking schools such as Harvard, MIT and Stanford. Some of the NSF children have achieved top ranks in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, MATHCOUNTS and National Geographic Bee.

We are progressing every year. Each year more volunteers join NSF, more donors make contributions, more children participate in the contests, we reach more needy students in India, and we are able to initiate more programs.