Project Grants:
- Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1994
- The National Endowment for the Humanities, 1994
- U.S. Department of Education, 1994
- The Ford Foundation, 1994
- The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation via The Association of Research Libraries, 1996
- University of Chicago Women’s Board, 1996
- India Foundation for the Arts, 2001
- Endangered Archives Program of the British Library, 2008, 2010,2016
- Central Institute for Classical Tamil, Ministry of Human Resource Development, 2009, 2010, 2012
- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, 2010
- University of Chicago
- Center for Research Libraries
- Navajbai Ratan Tata Trust, 2015
- The Music Academy, 2017
Donors
- Mrs. Mina Swaminathan (Corpus Fund)
- Dr. Iravatham Mahadevan (Endowment Fund)
- Mr. Duraiarasan (Endowment Fund)
- Prof. M. Anandakrishnan (Endowment Fund)
- Ms. Padmasini Kannan (Endowment Fund)
- Students of Prof. V. Arasu (Endowment Fund)
- Mr. Nooruddin Ahamed
- Mrs. S. Satyabhama
- Mr. K. Subramanian
- Mrs. Ramani Natrajan
- A. M. M. Foundation (Corpus Fund)
- Mrs. Uma Narayanan
- Mr. M. V. Subbiah
- Mr. P. R. Vasudevan
- Shriram Capital Limited (Corpus Fund)
- GKD Charity Trust
- Mr. Sriram
- Chatnath Trust
- The Mrs Madhuram Narayanan Charitable Foundation
- Mr. K. R. V. Subrahmanian
- Pari Washington Company Advisors Pvt. Ltd. (Corpus Fund)
Exhibition Sponsors
- The Hindu
- Sundaram Fasteners Limited
- MR OR Umayal Achi, Mr. Arunachalam Trust
- Chennai Willingdon Corporate Foundation
- Government of Tamil Nadu