The founder and trustee of Danvantri Arogya Peedam, Sri Muralidhara Swamigal has managed to keep the trust afloat with the help of good Samaritans who have been contributing out of their own will. He was born into an average family that belonged to the lower middle class strata of the society. His father being a teacher and mother a homemaker, with him and four other siblings (one brother and three sisters) to raise, day-to-day existence was a struggle. With the pressure of offering support to the family continually building up, Sri Muralidhara Swamigal discontinued his studies after Standard 12 and began taking up full time jobs.