New Delhi, April 15 -- India's vast non-profit sector is key to driving change at the grassroots, yet little is known about its workings: from the number of organizations to the amount of funding being pumped through them and their key areas of operations.

A new study, exclusively shared with Mint by non-profit organization Impactica.org, which is building a digital infrastructure for the sector, tries to answer some of these questions.

The study shows that while the sector is growing in size, it struggles with concentrated operations, with funding largely restricted to the richer states. Though non-profit organizations do have a sizeable presence in some aspirational districts, several others are left underserved. Mint explores the det...