Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BENGALI CHRISTIAN MINISTRY
BENGALI CHRISTIAN MINISTRY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $181,915 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($76,600). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $92k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $182k
- Net assets
- $119k
What Bengali Christian Ministry does
Mission
Bengali Christian Ministry seeks to mobilize, train, and support Bengali Christian leaders in Kolkata, India and the state of West Bengal and beyond.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Within USA Meetings and speaking engagements at churches and private homes to disseminate information about BCM; Hospitality for Indian/Bengali leaders visiting USA; Long-distance communication: Personal support and encouragement for Bengali Christian Leaders in West Bengal, India via skype/email.
$15,596 spent18% of program spendingTravel to West Bengal, India: short-term trips for observation, teaching, and training. Bring supporters to visit and observe the work. Working to impact North American Christians during personal visits and encounters among Bengali Christian communities. Conduct meetings with Bengali Christian leaders
$21,551 spent25% of program spendingIn West Bengal, India: Fund training for Bengali Christian leaders; provide goods, service to Bengali Christian leaders or their registered charitable organizations; local community betterment and economic development among impoverished communities of Bengali Christians.
$50,050 spentof which $50,050 as grants57% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $87,197.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $92k to $122k (+33%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of BENGALI CHRISTIAN MINISTRY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $6k → $37k.
7 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BENGALI CHRISTIAN MINISTRY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BENGALI CHRISTIAN MINISTRY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BENGALI CHRISTIAN MINISTRY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 100% · 2019 80% · 2020 58% · 2021 99% · 2022 74% · 2023 70% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
17% of BENGALI CHRISTIAN MINISTRY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
84% of BENGALI CHRISTIAN MINISTRY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $28k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $153k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BENGALI CHRISTIAN MINISTRY has grown faster than half of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like BENGALI CHRISTIAN MINISTRY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BENGALI CHRISTIAN MINISTRY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BENGALI CHRISTIAN MINISTRY?
- BENGALI CHRISTIAN MINISTRY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $181,915 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($76,600). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BENGALI CHRISTIAN MINISTRY have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $181,915 in grants to BENGALI CHRISTIAN MINISTRY, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BENGALI CHRISTIAN MINISTRY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $76,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BENGALI CHRISTIAN MINISTRY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 9 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing