2025-06-14T13:17:31Z 2024-12-31 990EZ 2024-01-01 331218468 VALLEY BENGALI COMMUNITY VALL 22543 Ventura Blvd Ste 220 PMB104 Woodland Hills CA 91364 Anirban Roy General Coordinator 2025-06-14 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X Cash and online transactions X https://valleybengali.org/ X X 158935 158935 142216 -142216 16719 0 16719 31347 48066 31347 48066 31347 48066 31347 48066 Valley Bengali Community (VBC), 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. Durgotsav 2024: It was the major event that VBC organized in 2024. In the spirit of bringing the Bengalis and Indians of the region together to celebrate the culture of Bengal. It was a multi-day event to promote core culture of the community. in 4 days event it created opportunity for the 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 part of India. There were over 500 people in southern California who participated and celebrated the diversity of Indian culture. 142811 126740 Saraswati Puja 2024: The second largest event of VBC is primarily dedicated for kids and young adults of the community who come together to embrace the culture of their root and take a lead role to organize the event. On this day the venue becomes milieu of children and young folks to celebrate their success and observe the richness of the Bengali culture. They all perform Bengali and Indian traditional and contemporary songs, drama and music that helps their holistic growth. Over 175 people attended this event. 16124 15476 142216 Arnab Chaudhuri Finance Coordinator 2.00 0 0 0 Anirban Roy General Coordinator 2.00 0 0 0 false false false false false false false false false CA Arnab Chaudhuri 22543 Ventura Blvd Woodland Hills CA 91364 8185646592 false false false false false false false false false false false NONE 0 NONE 0 true X 0 10083 32684 72864 72378 158935 346944 10083 32684 72864 72378 158935 346944 0 0 0 346944 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10083 32684 72864 72378 158935 346944 1.00000 1.00000 0.00000 0.00000 X Our organization has a solid track record of filing tax returns on time, without failure. However, we have a process in place in our organization that requires the general coordinator and the treasurer perform a final review of the financials for the previous year before filing for taxes. As our President (General Coordinator) was going through multiple eye surgeries during this time, we could not hold that review meeting on time this year. That is the main reason for missing the May 15 date this year. Going forward, we are considering options to formally add additional members of the community who can act as a backup reviewer of the financials if this type of unavoidable situation occurs in the future. Therefore, we appeal to IRS to waive the penalty associated with this delay