2024-05-13T14:43:27-07:00 2023-12-31 990 2023-01-01 814479308 KOLKATA FOUNDATION INC KOLK 5408414846 54 CLARKE CT PRINCETON NJ 085406759 Nitin Kotak Trustee & Treasurer 5408414846 2024-01-01 Nitin Kotak 999009999 1 1 11 1 AAL2 2023 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z DHRITIMAN BANERJEE 54 CLARKE COURT PRINCETON NEW JERSEY NJ 08540 193394 0 X https://www.kolkatafoundation.org/ X 2016 NJ Kolkata Foundation is a global non-profit organization working to improve lives of the underprivileged in West Bengal, India through high impact social interventions in Education, Women's Empowerment and Healthcare. It is a call to action to unite, give, change lives and kindle hope. 3 3 0 15 0 0 200938 178617 0 0 145 14777 0 0 201083 193394 79035 115979 0 0 0 0 0 0 271 6607 8927 85642 124906 115441 68488 630577 701565 0 2500 630577 699065 Kolkata Foundation is a global non-profit organization working to improve lives of the underprivileged in West Bengal, India through high impact social interventions in Education, Women's Empowerment and Healthcare. It is a call to action to unite, give, change lives and kindle hope. 0 0 38572 38572 0 Various Education Projects, including (1) Continued to support the Samaritan Public School at Bankra, West Bengal to provide education to underprivileged boys and girls of the local slum areas. During the year ~1,705 children benefitted from the program across classes Nursery through Eight. (2) Supported the Primary School at the Ek Tara Learning Center to help ~300 underprivileged children of Tiljala and Topsia bustees in Kolkata make up their learning loss due to the devastating effects of Covid. These children were across grades One through Four. 31450 31450 0 Various Health Care Projects, including (1) Supported Rural Health Care Foundation (RHCF) in running two primary medical centers serving over 325 villages, to provide high quality medical care to the poor and under-served communities. About 150,000 patients (62% women) were served from these two centers during the year. Areas of treatment included general medicine, optical including providing spectacles, dental, homeopathic treatment, physiotherapy, and cataract surgery. (2) Also supported RHCF in strengthening the health of rural poor by reaching out to inhabitants of these more than 325 villages with trained staff to ensure early diagnosis and effective treatment of underlying disease and ailments for common disorders, especially when they are asymptomatic. Almost 56,000 beneficiaries (51% women) were pre-screened during the year as a part of this Project Outreach. As a result of these efforts about 31% of those screened (about 17,500 people) were diagnosed with various ailments like Joint Pain, Gastric, Optical, Dental, Blood Pressure, Skin related, Blood Sugar, etc. (3) Supported MUKTI with their Gram Clinic to treat about 1,150 underprivileged patients (55% women) during the year from villages in the Sundarbans area (4) During the year about 3,200 patients (45% women) benefited from the PRO Computer Vision Phoropter, and about 1,000 patients (48% women) benefited from the motorized Operation Theater table, provided earlier by the Foundation to Nanritam to enable cataract surgery and quality eye care treatment to the under privileged. 45957 45957 0 Women's Empowerment - Two Kolkata Foundation Initiatives were launched during the year as pilot programs. Both these initiatives were implemented through our supported nonprofit Mukti. The first is called Shahoshini (meaning Courageous Women in local language) and is geared towards helping women develop agency and decision making power over issues that affect their lives - like gender, discrimination and violence. The objective is to train a cohort of women to address such issues and encourage them to disseminate their learning in their communities and to address these issues in their families, networks and villages. During the year a cohort of 25 Shahoshinis reached out to about 750 women. The second is called Swastho Shongini (meaning Health Partner in local language) and is geared towards creating a low-cost, scalable program for improving healthcare, especially among rural children, adolescents and women, by training village women to become evangelists on health issues including hygiene and nutrition. During the year this team of 24 Swastho Shonginis visited and interacted with about 2,400 families and gathered health data on more than 10,000 individuals. 0 0 0 115979 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 NJ NY X NITIN KOTAK 5408414846 13705 TURNMORE ROAD SILVER SPRING MD 20906 X DHRITIMAN BANERJEE TRUSTEE AND PRESIDENT 15 X 0 0 0 NITIN KOTAK TRUSTEE AND TREASURER 10 X 0 0 0 MANAB SEN TRUSTEE AND SECRETARY 1 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 178617 0 178617 0 14777 0 0 14777 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 193394 0 0 14777 115979 115979 7650 7650 619 348 271 658 658 124906 115979 8656 271 36706 37417 593871 664148 630577 701565 2500 0 2500 X 630577 699065 0 0 630577 699065 630577 701565 68488 0 0 0 0 0 X X 0 1 X 0 0 X 124045 211028 433539 200938 178617 1148167 124045 211028 433539 200938 178617 1148167 198082 950085 857 1255 114 145 14777 17148 1165315 0.81530 0.81065 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 193394 0 0 0 0 0 193394 0 0 0 193394 124906 0 0 0 0 0 124906 0 0 0 124906 1 South Asia 0 0 Grantmaking Grants to recipients 115979 0 0 115979 South Asia Women Empowerment Projects 45957 Wire Transfer 0 South Asia Education Projects 38572 Wire Transfer 0 South Asia Healthcare Projects 31450 Wire Transfer 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Schedule F, Part I, Line 2 All grant approvals are notified to a supported nonprofit in writing, outlining the project and purpose of support, terms and conditions of support and reporting requirements. The nonprofit board agrees through a board resolution to abide by these terms. The nonprofit is generally required to maintain a separate bank account for the grant, submit periodic financial reports, including bank statements and invoices of material expenses. Additional explanation and documentation support is sought as needed. Periodic site visits and regular video and/or voice calls are made by board members and volunteers. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 8a The minutes of every meeting of the Board of Directors / Trustees are recorded and approved at subsequent meeting. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 8b There are no committees with authority to act on behalf of the governing body. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The form is prepared by a volunteer and then reviewed by the Board. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c Each Board member provides a declaration in accordance with the Conflict of Interest Policy in the first month of each year, and these are noted in the Board minutes. If there is any actual or potential Conflict of Interest during the year, the Board member is expected to highlight the same to the Board during the discussion. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 The organizations Policies, Financial Statements, Form 990s and Annual Reports are posted and available on the website. Governing documents are provided to anyone on request Form 990, Part XII, Line 2c The entire board assumes responsibility for the selection of an independent firm of accountants to audit the financial statements of the organization.