Calcutta Mercy
Legal name: Calcutta Mercy Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 203432133
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Phone
- 317-214-7458
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,033,740
- Expenses
- $1,035,195
- Assets
- $290,708
- Liabilities
- $186,135
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROBERT E MCGURTY (PRESIDENT AND CHAIRMAN)
Highest reported compensation
- ROBERT E MCGURTY (PRESIDENT AND CHAIRMAN): $111,030 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To feed, educate, and medically assist the deserving of India—with dignity, compassion, and the love of Christ.
What it reported doing in 2024
Medically Assist: The organization is a non-profit on a mission to feed, educate, and medically assist the deserving of India. The medically assist portion is accomplished through our medical relief fund which is established to medically assist the deserving of India who need medical compassionate care. Through this fund, we support a wide range of essential health services through local partners.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 61% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 62.9%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 62.8%; rating input score 63
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.44 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Pass
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 74.4%; rating input score 74; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90%; rating input score 90; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.1%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.28; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.64; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.7%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -9.4% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.7% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 62.9% of revenue deployed · 62.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 10 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $650K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $111K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 24/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 34/100.