Valley Bengali Community

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
331218468
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Woodland Hills, CA, USA
Phone
8185646592
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Cultural, Ethnic Awareness

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$-20,033
Expenses
$0
Assets
$28,033

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

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Anirban Roy (General Coordinator)
  • Arnab Chaudhuri (Finance Coordinator)

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

Valley Bengali Community, established in 1987, is a socio-cultural organization promoting Bengali and Indian culture in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles area. It is run by volunteers and with the money raised by contributions from members and volunteers. The organization is 100% non profit and serves the community in the area.

What it reported doing in 2025

Durgotsav 2025: It was the major event that VBC organized in 2025, held in the spirit of bringing the Bengalis and Indians of the region together to celebrate the culture of Bengal. It was a multiday event to promote the core culture of the community. Over the 4 day event, it created opportunities for children and adults of the community to perform and celebrate the culture. Additionally, VBC organized cultural shows by artists from India, who performed live and celebrated Indian classical and traditional music, including folk music from rural parts of India. More than 500 people in Southern California participated and celebrated the diversity of Indian culture.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 4
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -100%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $83K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
  • Consistency: 4 of 5 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.