The NIPFP maintains close functional links with the Central and State Governments in India, and actively collaborates with bilateral and multilateral donor agencies in pursuing its research and training agenda. It also works in close collaboration with a number of academic institutions both in India and abroad, to gain deeper insights on issues of public economics. The faculty of the Institute collaborates in research and teaching activities with a number institutes in India and abroad. They are also associated with world-wide research networks and serve as members on national and state-level commissions, professional organisations, and management boards of various institutions.

In the current year 2021-22, the NIPFP and the Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay Centre for Training and Research Administration, Government of Uttarakhand (PDU-CTRFA) has entered into a training and research collaboration with a focus to encourage cooperation, learning from good practices and intellectual exchange between the two institutions in the area of public finance, fiscal governance and management, through mentoring, exchange of faculty members and officers/staff, collaboration and coordination in conducting lectures etc.

List of other current project collaborations and partnerships

List of past project collaborations and partnerships

List of donors in the period October to December 2015

List of donors in the period April to June 2016

List of donors in the period August 2016 to March 2017

List of donors in the period April 2017 to March 2018

List of donors in the period April 2018 to March 2019

List of donors in the period April 2019 to March 2020

List of donors in the period April 2020 to March 2021

List of donors in the period April 2021 to November 11, 2021