ANTODAYA has been founded and established by Late B. Saleem Farook on 9th June 1989. It has been registered as a Non- Governmental Organization and registered under Societies Registration Act, 1860 in 1989. The Organisation's Registration No. is  Kld/409-17/1989-90. It has also been registered under FCRA Regulation Act in 1991 and its FCRA Registration No. is 104950020.

The whole structure of the organization is woven around the philosophy of combining the wisdom of local tribal people with the experience and professionalism of members of the organization judiciously. Hence the whole process of identifying problems, planning, monitoring and implementation ensure participation of tribal people. The general body and the governing body of the organization include the local tribal leaders.

The Chairman is the chief executive of the organization and a process ably supplements him in taking decisions. A village level committee consisting of men and women in equal proportion represents all the villages of the project area of ANTODAYA. All actions and reflections are being carried out at the grassroots with the help of these committees and program animators. The program animators are selected from within the villages and are made responsible for facilitating communication and interaction between the project office and the villagers. Program animators further report to the Program Coordinators who inturn report to the Chairman. The whole process is so designed that the Chairman is able to take decisions based on rational and realistic grounds. He is also responsible for providing the governing body and general body all the informations relating to projects and their transactions.

ANTODAYA has proper monitoring and evaluation system in place to measure the direction of its progress and reflect upon the strategy adopted by the organization. The respective program coordinators as well as the village level committee consisting of men and women from villages monitor the animators working at the village and cluster level. Tribal people, for whom these development programs are meant, have an important stake in the monitoring system of the organization. Program coordinators present the monthly progress reports based on the report of the program animators in the monthly staff meeting and present their weekly report and regular feed back to the Chairman.

The monthly meetings are held at field office and are attended by the Chairman, field staffs, program coordinators and village leaders. Processes are being analyzed with the help of people and their representatives are encouraged to reflect upon the progress of work.

ANTODAYA has also encouraged the process of external evaluation by its funding partners from time to time.