Culkey Foundation is a system‑building organization focused on India’s experience economy. Our starting point is simple: if the people who keep our places alive remain invisible, the value they create will never fully count. We work at the intersection of heritage, tourism, culture, and ecology to make “hard‑to‑reach” places and actors legible to capital, policy, and markets, while keeping community custodianship at the center. Our work is grounded in India’s development priorities and global ESG/SDG frameworks, ensuring that every rupee invested in places and their people can compound into long‑term economic and social returns.

Dream of Culkey Foundation
Culkey’s long‑term dream is to help India unlock a new layer of GDP growth from its culture, tourism, and experience sectors, without losing authenticity, equity, or environmental balance. We aim to build the standards, governance models, and “phygital” rails that allow millions of currently informal tourism, arts, and culture (TAC) actors to become discoverable, bookable, and credit‑worthy contributors to the formal economy. This is a decade‑scale mission that requires patient capital and aligned partners, those willing to fund not just visible outcomes on the ground, but the enabling infrastructure that can continuously generate livelihoods, safeguard heritage, and strengthen India’s position as a culture‑ and experience‑rich economy in the world.