Bengali Cultural Society

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
341404736
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2017–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
Location
Solon, OH, USA
Phone
2166507947
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Cultural, Ethnic Awareness

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$-18,389
Expenses
$11,209
Assets
$108,718
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KAUSTAV BANERJEE (PRESIDENT)
  • RABISANKAR TALUKDAR (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • JAYDIP DAS GUPTA (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • KAUSTAV BANERJEE (PRESIDENT)
  • RABISANKAR TALUKDAR (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • JAYDIP DAS GUPTA (VICE PRESIDENT)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The mission of bengali cultural society (bcs) is to promote bengali culture, literature, art, music, traditions, and values to the sons and daughters born and brought up in the USA so that they fully understand these values and strive to get a good education. The society spends money on religious puja and provides scholarship money to students.

What it reported doing in 2025

Musical night (rhythm divine)

Operating model

Revenue model
No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 43
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -161%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 9.7; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -4.3% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 9 filed program accomplishments · $101K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.