SVYM is registered:

• Under Karnataka Societies Registration Act, vide No. 122/84-85, dated 1-12-1984
• With Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, under FRCA 1976 vide No. 094590102.
• With Ministry of Welfare under the Indo-US bilateral agreement vide No. 17-7/95-NI-I dated 22-12-97 to receive foreign goods.
• With the US Government, vide No. EIN-IRS-02-0687246.

SVYM has been listed by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Govt. of India as one of the Established Voluntary Organizations in India (http://tribal.nic.in/promotion1.html)

SVYM is also a member of several NGO networks like

• Voluntary Health Associations of India
• Federation of Hindu Mission Health Services
• Mythri, a federation of all NGOs in Mysore district
• Tribal Joint Action , Karnataka
• FEVORD – K
• Learning Initiative Network
• Credibility Alliance
• CACL, Karnataka

SVYM's administrative costs do not exceed 5% of the total project costs, one of the lowest in the entire country among the voluntary sector