2022-09-16T23:30:24-07:00 2021-12-31 990 2021-01-01 272637286 PANAH CHARITY FOUNDATION PANA 5107922629 4119 Tamayo Street Fremont CA 94536 Rokhshana Benish President 5107922629 2022-09-16 1 11 0 AAL2 2021 2022-09-23 18:48:47Z Rokhshana Benish 4119 Tamayo Street Fremont CA 94536 964194 0 X panahcharity.org X 2010 CA Panah is a CHARITABLE non-profit foundation helping very poor and needy families in Afghanistan. Today 75% of the population there are living below the poverty level. There is no job and income for over 70% of the population. Panah Charity is working hard to provide food to starving families & children, shelters for homeless widows/children, create educational opportunities & 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. 5 5 0 4 0 0 758519 964194 0 0 13028 0 0 0 771547 964194 341241 257537 0 0 7323 4699 0 0 0 21600 23392 370164 285628 401383 678566 1857164 2535730 0 0 1857164 2535730 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 74884 74884 Panah Charity provided basic food supplies packages to 1150 poor and homeless families in Afghanistan in the month of Ramadan 2021. These are families with young children living below the poverty level. Panah Charity provided flour, rice, cooking oil, tea, sugar, beans, daal, and salt. Distribution of food packages fed 8050 individuals for a month for a total cost of $73524. Total allocation cost of transportation to distribution sites, banners, and some small miscellaneous expenses was $1360. 75985 75985 Panah Charity provided monthly sponsorship to about 103 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 $75985 in 2021. 31946 31946 Panah Charity provided heating supplies, food supplies, and blankets to hundreds of homeless families in 2021. 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 2021 was $31946 US dollars. Allocated cost of transportation, banner, and labor on the distribution site was $680 US dollars. 6274 6274 Panah Charity provided warm clothing in the winter season such as warm jackets, boots, and socks to homeless children living in homeless camps in Kabul for $6274 US dollars. 67292 67292 Panah Charity provided humanitarian aids to many needy families throughout the year 2021. Such as providing food supplies, meat, school supplies to poor children, humanitarian aid to orphanages, covering medical expenses including cost of surgeries/hospitalization for needy individuals, nutritional food to needy families and children, and many more. . . etc. Total expense of these type of humanitarian aid to families was $37959 US Dollars. Also Panah Charity provided meat to families in 2021 for a total cost of $29333 US dollars. 1156 1156 Panah Charity built 1 more water wells in 2021. This water wells is supporting many poor and needy families who did not have access to clean drinking water. The families had to bring water from miles away in baskets and building a deep water wells solved their problems. 74722 0 74722 257537 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 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 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 AF 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 5 5 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 Mirza Mohammad Operating Manager and Supervisor in Afghanistan 48 X 0 0 2802 Rokhshana Benish Presiden / Founder 50 X 0 0 0 Durrana Rahimi Vice President 5 X 0 0 0 Jasmine Nejat Secretary 4 X 0 0 0 Shamsullah Mehry Project Coordinator 2 X 0 0 0 0 0 2802 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 964194 0 964194 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 964194 0 0 0 257537 257537 4615 4615 84 84 0 9527 9527 4500 4500 7425 7425 1940 1940 285628 257537 28091 0 746560 2413154 988028 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 122576 0 122576 122576 1857164 2535730 0 0 X 1857164 2535730 0 0 0 0 1857164 2535730 1857164 2535730 678566 0 0 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 X 507350 543632 624448 758519 964194 3398143 507350 543632 624448 758519 964194 3398143 3398143 13028 13028 3411171 0 0.99618 0.99554 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 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. 267024 1 2 267024 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 is residing in Kabul, Afghanistan. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b Contents of form 990 was reviewed during a meeting before filling it. 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 non-profit's CEO/President, Vice President, and Secretary do not receive any type of compensation from the charity. The employees of the charity in Kabul, Afghanistan are receiving compensation based on wages paid for comparable jobs in Afghanistan. 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 and the extension was accepted by IRS.