B Desh Foundation Inc

Analysis

B Desh Foundation Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Sterling, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2010, 16 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending September 2023, B Desh Foundation Inc reported income of $1.4m and spending of $1.1m, leaving 24% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income grew from $1.2m to $1.4m (+20%), an average of +4.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2021, when income rose by 42%. Over the whole period it spent 70% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, B Desh Foundation Inc sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of Kenya Rising ($1.4m), The Rostropovich-Vishnevskaya Foundation ($1.4m) and Foundation for Children in Need Inc ($1.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. At year end it held assets of $3.1m against liabilities of $22k, net assets of $3.0m.