2023-09-25T03:56:17-07:00 2022-12-31 990 2022-01-01 272637286 PANAH CHARITY FOUNDATION PANA 5107922629 4119 Tamayo Street Fremont CA 94536 Rokhshana Benish President 5107922629 2023-09-05 1 1 11 0 AAL2 X 2022 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z Rokhshana Benish 4119 Tamayo Street Fremont CA 94536 830178 0 X panahcharity.org X 2010 CA Panah is a CHARITABLE non-profit foundation helping very poor and needy families in Afghanistan. Today 90% of the population in Afghanistan are living below the poverty level. There is no job and no income. Panah Charity is working hard to provide food to starving families & children, shelters for homeless widows/children, self-sufficiency programs, and working non-stop toward reducing the child-labor by sponsoring poor children. Throughout the year Panah Charity delivers humanitarian aid in Kabul and provinces. This foundation also creates water wells in very dry and poor villages in Afghanistan to provide clean drinking water to needy families. Panah Charity Foundation promotes education by sponsoring poor children and helping them to attend schools. Panah Charity also provide medical support to very poor children and adults. The non-profit has an office and few employees in Kabul, Afghanistan. 3 3 0 3 0 0 964194 830178 0 0 0 0 0 0 964194 830178 257537 297935 0 0 4699 4496 0 0 0 23392 18133 285628 320564 678566 509614 2535730 3045344 0 0 2535730 3045344 Panah is a CHARITABLE non-profit foundation with active 501c (3) status. This charity was formed in 2010 to help poor and homeless families by providing various humanitarian services. Panah Charity's mission is to provide aid via different programs to poverty-stricken families and individuals in Afghanistan. Short descriptions of Panah Charity's programs are as followings: Building homes for homeless families, building class rooms for homeless children, helping needy families to become self sufficient, building water wells, sponsoring very poor widows and orphans, providing humanitarian aid, saving children from child labor, helping very poor individuals with their medical expenses, . . . and more. 0 0 107217 107217 Panah Charity provided basic food supplies packages to 1800 poor and homeless families in Afghanistan throughout 2022. These are families with young children living below the poverty level. Panah Charity provided flour, rice, cooking oil, tea, sugar, beans, daal, & macaroni. Distribution of food packages fed 12596 individuals for a month for a total cost of $107217. Total allocation cost of transportation to distribution sites, banners, and some small miscellaneous expenses included. 88266 88266 Panah Charity provided monthly sponsorship to about 115 poor widows with young children and disabled individuals who can not work. With a minimal monthly support, the families were able to buy food for their children and survive. Also Panah Charity helps some very poor college students with their school supplies, clothing, and transportation expense in order for them to continue with their college education. Total cost of monthly sponsorship program was $88266 in 2022. 33965 33965 Panah Charity provided heating supplies, food supplies, warm clothing to children, and blankets to hundreds of homeless families in 2022. Winter in Afghanistan is deadly and homeless families usually need lots of support in the winter season. Cost of heating supplies provided in Jan, Feb, Mar, Nov, and Dec of 2022 was $33965 US dollars. Cost of transportation, banner, and labor on the distribution included. 65497 65497 Panah Charity provided humanitarian aids to many needy families throughout the year 2022 including supporting families in emergency situations. Such as providing meat, school supplies to poor children, humanitarian aid to orphanages, covering medical expenses including cost of surgeries/hospitalization for needy individuals, bread, nutritional food to needy children, and many more. . . Total expense of these type of humanitarian aid to families was $65497 US Dollars. Cost of providing meat in Eid Qurban to families and children including in this total was $23976 US dollars. 2990 2990 Panah Charity Foundation supported 23 shopkeepers in 2022 to become self-sufficient and earn enough to feed their families by providing supplies to their shops. Total cost of this small project was 2990 US dollars. 68487 0 68487 297935 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 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 0 0 0 1 AF 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 3 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 CA X Rokhshana Benish 5107922629 4119 Tamayo Street Fremont CA 94536 X Mirza Mohammad Operating Manager and Supervisor in Afghanistan 48 X 0 0 2656 Masihullah Mehry Key Employee 48 X 0 0 1700 Rokhshana Benish Presiden / Founder 45 X 0 0 0 Durrana Nejat Vice President 5 X 0 0 0 Jasmine Nejat Secretary 3 X 0 0 0 0 0 4356 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 830178 0 830178 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 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 0 0 830178 0 0 0 297935 297935 4359 4359 137 137 7682 7682 4400 4400 6051 6051 320564 297935 22629 0 2413154 2922768 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 122576 0 122576 122576 2535730 3045344 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 2535730 3045344 0 0 0 0 2535730 3045344 2535730 3045344 509614 0 0 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 X 543632 624448 758519 964194 834178 3724971 543632 624448 758519 964194 834178 3724971 3724971 13028 13028 3737999 0.99651 0.99618 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 122576 0 122576 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 122576 1 South Asia 1 2 Program Services Panah Charity Foundation has been provides humanitarian aid in Afghanistan for years where poor families and children in that region are in dire need for support. The program services conducts are including activities such below: 1- providing food packages to poor & homeless families (mainly widows and children). 2- providing heating supplies in the winter season 3- providing clothing to homeless children 4- building shelters for homeless families with young children. 5- building water wells in villages 6- creating self-sufficiency opportunities that people can work & have income 7- supporting widow families with monthly sponsorship in order for their children to attend school and keep them away from working on the street 8- providing meat, powdered milk, vitamins, school supplies and much more to very poor children 9- creating educational opportunities for children 10- supporting very poor families with their medical expenses. Panah Charity maintains complete financial records 297935 1 2 297935 Europe (including Iceland and Greenland) Panah Charity Foundation due to banking problems was not able to send wires as before directly from USA to Afghanistan in 2022. In order to continue the mission and deliver humanitarian aid to the poorest families and children in Afghanistan, Panah Charity Foundation with the help and through Omed Foundation GGMBH which is a tax exempt non-profit foundation in Germany was able to deliver fund to Panah's branch in Kabul, Afghanistan. That enabled Panah Charity Foundation to still support thousands of families and young children in Afghanistan in 2022 via its program services. such as: providing food packages to starving children & families; providing monthly sponsorship to over 700 orphan children monthly; providing heating supplies in the freezing winter season, warm clothing, and blankets to children; Providing meat, powdered milk, school supplies and etc to kids; building water wells in villages; medical support to poor individuals; and providing emergency relief & more. 270000 Wire Transfer 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Schedule F, Part I, Line 2 Panah Charity Foundation has been providing humanitarian aid to the neediest families and children in Afghanistan since 2010. The program services that Panah Charity Foundation had in 2022 were including the followings: 1- Provided food packages to homeless families, widows, and orphans; 2- Provided heating supplies in the harsh winter season of Afghanistan including warm clothing to homeless children; 3- Built water wells in poor villages where families didn't have access to clean drinking water; 4- Created self-sufficiency programs for poor street workers, 5- Supported poor widows with young children by providing monthly sponsorship; 6- Provided meat, powdered milk, vitamins, school supplies, end etc. to poor homeless children; 7- Supported very poor families with medical expenses; 8- Disaster Relief Aid. Panah Charity Foundation maintains complete financial records including all bills and also conducts complete surveys to make sure that the most deserving families & children be the recipients of aid. The headquarter in US receives all financial documents, copies of all bills, videos & photos from the distribution sites, and videos of surveys on a regular basis. All documents receive detail review. Panah Charity Foundation is legally registered as an humanitarian non-profit in Afghanistan. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 2 The president and vice president are related to each other. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 9 Mirza Mohammad the Operating Manager of Panah Charity Foundation who is managing the operation of the charity in Kabul, Afghanistan resides in Kabul, Afghanistan. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b Annually return will be reviewed and discussed in a meeting before it's filled. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c Panah Charity Foundation follows the policies related to non-profits 501c (3) at all time. The president of the non-profit holds meetings regularly with office team in Kabul, Afghanistan and during these meetings the policies are reviewed and discussed to make sure that all Program Services are conducted according to the policies and procedures. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 The president, vice president, and secretary are working as volunteers and do not receive any compensation from the non-profit. The operating manager and the admin residing in Kabul, Afghanistan are receiving compensation based on salary paid for the comparable jobs in Afghanistan. Their compensation is paid in Afghani currency. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 All documents are available upon request. Panah Charity Foundation filed an extension on time to complete the return by Oct 15th of 2023. The extension was accepted by IRS.