Hurun India Philanthropy List 2025: There are many earners in the world, but the number of people who donate or help others is less. However, today we are going to tell you about some stalwarts of our own country, who are tops in both earning and donating. EdelGive Hurun India Philanthropy List has prepared a list, in which the donated amount of the rich of India has been disclosed. Business tycoons like Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani are also included in the list. Let us see who is ahead of whom in terms of earning as well as donating?

According to the list, the top 5 rich people of the country have donated a total of Rs 10,380 crore so far this year, which is 85 percent more than the last three years. At number one in the list is Shiv Nadar, founder of the country’s biggest IT company HCL Tech, and his family, who have donated Rs 2708 crore in 2025. With this, he is at the top of the list for the fourth consecutive time in five years. It is clear from this that Shiv Nadar donated an average of Rs 7.4 crore per day, which is 26 percent more than last year. Most of this amount came from Shiv Nadar Foundation, which promotes art and culture along with education. Shiv Nadar donated a total of Rs 10122 crore in five consecutive years. Most of this money was spent in the field of education.

Adani-Ambani at what number?

According to the list, Reliance Industries Chairperson Mukesh Ambani has become the second most philanthropic person in the list by donating Rs 626 crore in the financial year 2025. This donation represents an increase of 54 percent compared to last year. Ambani family made most of the donations through Reliance Foundation. With this, Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani donated Rs 386 crore in 2025. In the last five years, the Chairman of Adani Group donated a total of Rs 1408 crore through his Adani Foundation, which was mostly spent on education.

Top-10 list

• Shiv Nadar and family, Rs 2,708 crore
• Mukesh Ambani and family, 626 crores
• Bajaj family- 446 crores
• Kumar Mangalam Birla and family- 440 crores
• Gautam Adani and family- 386 crores
• Nandan Nilekani- 365 crores
• Hinduja family – 298 crores
• Rohini Nilekani- 204 crores
• Sudhir Mehta and Sameer Mehta; Donation – 189 crores

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Trump Tariff: The effect of US President Donald Trump’s tariff policies is such that it has reduced the property of all the billionaires of the world. These include India’s business tycoon Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani. In the net worth of these two business veterans, there has been a huge decline of $ 30.5 billion (Rs 2.6 lakh crore) so far in the year 2025. Apart from these, all industrialists like Azim Premji, Shiv Nadar, Diliv Sanghvi have also come in the grip of the effect of tariffs.

Mukesh Ambani suffered so much loss

First of all, let’s talk about Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man. His assets have fallen by $ 3.42 billion. Along with this, he has also been out of the list of 10 richest men in the world. In this list, he is now at number 17 with assets of $ 87.2 billion. Shares of his company Reliance Industries and Jio Financial Services have lost 0.10 and 24 percent this year respectively.

Gautam Adani also reduced net worth

Similarly, the wealth of Gautam Adani has also reduced by $ 6.05 billion. His company Adani Enterprises has suffered about 9 percent losses this year. Jindal Group chairperson Savitri Jindal has lost $ 2.4 billion and Shiv Nadar, owner of HCL Technologies, has lost $ 10.5 billion.

Indian stock market declines

During this time, the Indian stock market has also declined as foreign investors are constantly selling Indian shares. Foreign investors have withdrawn Rs 31,575 crore from Indian shares between April 1 and April 11. In 2025 so far, withdrawal of about Rs 1.5 lakh crore has been done from the stock market. Due to this, the Sensex and Nifty have declined by 4.5 percent. BSE midcap and smallcap have declined by 14 and 17 percent.

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Mf hussain painting: The British auction company Christie made a auction on 19 March, New York, USA. Here the painting of famous Indian painter Maqbool Fida Hussain sold for Rs 118.7 crore ($ 13.75 million). With this, it took the title of the most expensive Indian painting. Earlier in September 2023, there was a bid of Rs 61.8 crore for Amrita Shergill’s painting ‘The Story Taylor’. Now the question comes, who bought this painting?

He bought MF Hussain’s painting

Although Christie has done the buyer’s listing as ‘Unnamed Institution’, but it is believed that Kiran Nadar, wife of HCL Tech owner Shiv Nadar’s wife Kiran Nadar, has bought this painting. Kiran, a trustee of Shiva Nadar Foundation, is fond of raising things related to Nadar art. Not only this, there is also a trustee of Kiran Museum of Art (KNMA). It is the first private art museum in India, which was built in 2010. Buying this painting is in accordance with their thinking of preserving and promoting Indian art at the international level.

#Worldauctionroad MF Husain’s ‘Untitled (Gram Yatra)’ Has Shattered the Previous Artist Record Achieving US $ 13,750,000 during South Asian Modern + Contemporary Indian Art Sale in New York. This is the highest price realized for any modern Indian work of art in the world. pic.twitter.com/fgmgexitu7

– Christie’s (@chrissinc) March 19, 2025

Mother of the country’s richest woman

Kiran Nadar is the mother of Roshni Nadar Malhotra, India’s richest woman, whose assets are Rs 84,330 crore according to the report of Hurun India and Forbes. Recently, Shiv Nadar gave 47 percent stake in HCL Corp and Vama Delhi to his daughter Roshni Nadar. With this, she also became the biggest shareholder of HCL. Talk of Kiran Nadar, he also has assets worth Rs 25100 crore. Not only this, he is also one of the well-known bridges of the country. At the age of 67, he also won the bronze medal.

This is the specialty of this painting

Please tell that the length of MF Hussain’s village travel painting is about 14 feet. In this, the daily routine of people living in the villages of the country is shown through painting. There are 13 different scenes related to Indian rural life, in which some women are seen grinding grains, some are seen extracting milk of cow, some are seen taking care of their children. It took MF Hussain 13 years to make this painting. In 1954, the painting was bought by Doctor Leon Ellius Volodarski, who lives in Norway. In 1964, he gave this painting to Oslo University Hospital in a gift.

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