Bichitra a Bengali Religious & Cultural Organization
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237455933
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Troy, MI, USA
- Phone
- 5869966688
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $98,964
- Expenses
- $96,703
- Assets
- $95,802
- 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
- Tuhin Ray (President)
- Jhulan Chatterjee (Deputy President)
- Partha Sarathi Das (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Tuhin Ray (President)
- Jhulan Chatterjee (Deputy President)
- Partha Sarathi Das (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
Foster Religious, Cultural, Charitable, Educational Forums
What it reported doing in 2025
Bichitra arranges Charitable Fund Raising as a part of its regular and special programs. The Purpose is to promote Charitable Awareness among community members, and support the Less-Fortunate. The Funds are distributed to Needy Charities. Over 1000 persons are benefited by the respective organizations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 73% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.2%; rating input score 99
- 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: 2.3%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.99; rating input score 47; 47th 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: 18.7% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.8% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.2% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $98K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.