Chhobighar Film Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 861511827
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Naperville, IL, USA
- Phone
- 6304605537
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $53,670
- Expenses
- $25,655
- Assets
- $61,599
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- BIKRAMJIT DEWANJEE (Director)
- JASENDU CHAKRABORTY (Director)
- SUPRIYA MUKHAPADHYAY (Director)
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
A not-for-profit organization to educate and create awareness/integration of Indian and American art and culture through film festivals, study sessions, diverse cinematic works, workshops and discussion forums with directors and university professors.
What it reported doing in 2025
Hosted annual Chicago Bengali Film Festival (CBFF) and Short Film Festival to showcase movies in a festive milieu, and emphasize cultural integration. Festival unfolds cinematic flair, showcasing the carefully curated lineup of diverse and thought-provoking new movies. The films sparked lively discussions and created a sense of community amongst attendees resulting in a vibrant environment coupled with film related quiz contest, Q&A with the directors and actors that increased knowledge and developed appreciation of global cinema, different cultures and beliefs. Short films produced by local directors and actors from Illinois and New Jersey with interactive discussion sessions significantly improved approximately 200 audience appreciation of filmmaking and its technical perspectives.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 66% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 47.6%; rating input score 48
- Program expense ratio: 99.6%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 52.2%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.4; rating input score 70; 70th 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: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 47.6% of revenue deployed · 99.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $26K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.