Bhaktivedanta International Charities Inc. is a tax exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable organization registered in the United States of America dedicated to carrying out relief activities to help the poor and needy in India.

Bhaktivedanta International Charities was founded for the following purposes:

1. To provide humanitarian need to the poor and needy in India in the form of free food, medicines, and clothes.

2. To start and run educational institutions and to provide all necessary facilities for the education of the poor irrespective of caste, community, creed or religion.

3. To afford medical relief to the sick and the suffering without any restriction as to religion, caste, community, or creed by construction and or maintaining hospitals, clinics, dispensaries, maternity and childrens homes, etc.

4. To construct and or maintain libraries for the educational benefit of the public.

5. To grant scholarships or subsidies to poor and needy students.