COAST Foundation
rural_development · Dhaka
· verified (verified 2026-05-25)
Profile
- Chief executive
- Rezaul Karim Chowdhury
- Founded
- 1998
- Regulator
- multiple
- MRA-licensed
- yes
- Active members
- —
- Loan portfolio
- —
- Staff
- —
- Coverage
- coastal Bangladesh (Bhola, Barisal, Chattogram, Cox's Bazar, Noakhali, Feni, Laxmipur, Cumilla)
Provenance & notes
Began operations 1998 in Charfesson upazila, Bhola, following a project of an international NGO. Rezaul Karim Chowdhury has led it as Executive Director since formation. Registered with the Microcredit Regulatory Authority as COAST Trust on 19 Nov 2007; renamed COAST Foundation, acknowledged by NGOAB 6 Jun 2021. HQ at Metro Melody, Shyamoli, Dhaka-1207. Annual Report 2023 exists at coastbd.net but the PDF was not machine-readable, so financial figures (loan portfolio, expenditure, staff, branch counts) left null rather than estimated.