2026-05-13T14:17:19-07:00 2025-12-31 273731178 WEBER & COMPANY INC 2021 THE ALAMEDA STE 380 SAN JOSE CA 95126 990 2025-01-01 822933252 Maker Bhavan Foundation MAKE 6503466300 1228 Harker Avenue Palo Alto CA 94301 Subhash Tantry Treasurer 2026-05-13 true Trevor Thomas P01081612 4089316201 2025 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Subhash Tantry 1228 Harker Avenue Palo Alto CA 94301 9665194 false X makerbhavanfoundation.org X 2017 CA To enable Stem Education in India to train students to be innovative and job-ready upon graduation. The foundation acts as a global resource for Indian engineering colleges to provide access to tools, equipment, financial resources, and knowledge so that the education imparted is more relevant and responsive to the real life needs of students and society at large. 10 10 0 12 0 925181 9616593 0 15665 48601 0 940846 9665194 512089 207156 0 67775 60871 0 9253 68361 75673 648225 343700 292621 9321494 639503 9968547 7550 639503 9960997 X To enable Stem Education in India to train students to be innovative and job-ready upon graduation. The foundation acts as a global resource for Indian engineering colleges to provide access to tools, equipment, financial resources, and knowledge so that the education imparted is more relevant and responsive to the real life needs of students and society at large. false false 124840 124840 Tinkerers Labs are 24/7 student-managed academic makerspaces equipped with advanced fabrication tools (3D printers, CNC machines, laser cutters) that allow students to transition from theoretical concepts to real-world prototypes. MBF significantly accelerated its footprint in 2025. By the end of this reporting cycle, the foundation has established a total of 17 operational labs across India. A strategic priority was placed on less well-resourced institutions to democratize innovation. To date, over 100,000 students have benefited from the TL network.In 2025, MBF supported the establishment of 6 new labs namely - NIE Mysuru, IIT Jodhpur, Chitkara University, Ahmedabad University, and Prince Sri Venkateshwara Padmavathy Engineering College and College of Engineering Roorkee.The total cost of setting up these facilities in 2025 was USD 124,839.83In September 2025. MBF entered a landmark partnership with the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and other collaborators to launch Project PRACTICE (Project for Advancing Critical Thinking, Industry Connect and Employability). This initiative aims to reach 1,000 Tier II and Tier III engineering colleges over three years, impacting 5 lakh+ students and 10,000+ faculty members. MBF serves as a key enabler by providing its proprietary Management Information System (MIS) for lab utilization and driving the "Innovation and Project-Based Learning" pillars of the program. 70694 70694 Invention Factory (IF) rebranded as InventX--An existing program of the Foundation, Invention Factory rebranded as InventX is an intensive six-week residential summer program in inventing for undergraduate engineering and design students in India. To date, a total of 265 students from 20 IITs and 18 NITs have participated in the program with 124 provisional patent applications filed in India and the USA. In 2025, we received 890 applications from 480 unique colleges, ultimately hosting the final selected students at IIT Gandhinagar and IIT Jammu. The cost incurred for this programme was USD 70,694 in 2025. 11560 11560 Maker Bhavan Our largest academic makerspace at IIT Gandhinagar supports approximately 15 courses and project workshops conducted by facility staff. In the year 2025, a Makerspace summit was held for which the cost MBF contributed USD 11,560. 62 62 Vishwakarma Award, was launched in 2022, as an annual nationwide thematic challenge to encourage talented student teams to build innovative, impactful, deployable prototypes rapidly. In the first edition in 2022, 120 teams with a total of 300 plus students, from across India participated in the field of Water and Sanitation. The 2025, Vishwakarma Awards attracted 1,054 team applications from 3,616 students across India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, and Nepal, culminating in a grand finale at IIT Indore following an intensive bootcamp. Supported by industry partners MathWorks, Addverb, Technocraft, WingsEV, and Alkyl Amines, the competition challenged participants to innovate within the themes of smart mobility, healthtech, and intelligent machines. 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