2021-08-04T17:57:41-07:00 2020-12-31 990 2020-01-01 272637286 PANAH CHARITY FOUNDATION PANA 5107922629 4119 Tamayo Street Fremont CA 94536 Rokhshana Benish President 5107922629 2021-08-03 1 11 0 AAL2 2020 2022-09-23 18:48:47Z Rokhshana Benish 4119 Tamayo Street Fremont CA 94536 771547 0 X panahcharity.org X 2010 CA Panah is a CHARITABLE non-profit foundation helping poor and needy families mostly in Afghanistan. More than 10 million individuals are living below the poverty level in Afghanistan. Panah Charity is building shelters for homeless widows/children, classrooms, and workshops for families living in makeshift tents in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. Also, Panah Charity's goal is to help the needy families to become self-sufficient and stand on their own feet. Panah Charity working hard toward reducing the child-labor activities by sponsoring the families of young needy children. Panah Charity also provides humanitarian aid to starving families and children such as food supplies, heating supplies during the winter season, and warm clothing. This foundation also creates water wells in very dry and poor villages in Afghanistan to provide clean drinking water to needy families. Provide monthly support to poorest widows to be able to feed their children and send them to school for education. 5 5 0 4 0 0 624448 758519 0 0 0 13028 0 0 624448 771547 225786 341241 0 0 8240 7323 0 0 0 21125 21600 255151 370164 369297 401383 1455781 1857164 0 0 1455781 1857164 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 76788 76788 Panah Charity provided basic food supplies to 1094 poor and homeless families in Afghanistan in 2020 in the month of Ramadan. These are families with young children living below the poverty level. Panah Charity provided flour, rice, cooking oil, tea, sugar, beans, daal, and salt. In 2020 due to spread of Covid-19, Panah Charity also provided masks and sanitation supplies to families next to food supplies. This humanitarian aid fed 7658 individuals for a month for a total cost of $75460. Total allocation cost of transportation to distribution sites, banners, and some small miscellaneous expenses was $1328. 88410 88410 Panah Charity provided monthly sponsorship to about 105 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 $88,410 in 2020. 73267 73267 Panah Charity provided heating supplies, food supplies, and blankets to hundreds of homeless families in 2020. 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 2020 was $71,939 US dollars. Allocated cost of transportation, banner, and labor on the distribution site was $1328 4520 4520 Panah Charity provided school uniforms, shoes, school supplies, and etc to some homeless students in 2020 for $4520 39350 39350 Panah Charity provided humanitarian aids to many needy families throughout the year 2020. 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 $12,199 US Dollars. Also Panah Charity provided meat to families in 2020 for a total cost of $25825. The cost of transportation and butcher was $1328. 3039 3039 Panah Charity built 1 more water wells in 2020. 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. Cost of building the water wells was $1068 US dollars. Panah Charity Foundation also helped many families to become self sufficient by providing them the tools to work on the street. Total cost was for self-sufficiency was $1970 US dollars. 21197 21197 Panah Charity Foundation in 2020 rebuilt 10 homes for flood victims in Parwan Province. The nature disaster of flood caused many families to became homeless. Panah Charity was helped to help and total cost of rebuilding flood victims homes was $27197 US dollars. 34670 34670 Covid-19 Relief Program. This program provided medical support, sanitation supplies, food supplies, and etc. 102776 0 102776 341241 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 X Mirza Mohammad Operating Manager and Supervisor in Afghanistan 48 X 0 0 2706 Rokhshana Benish Presiden / Founder 45 X 0 0 0 Durrana Rahimi Vice President 6 X 0 0 0 Jasmine Nejat Secretary 4 X 0 0 0 Shamsullah Mehry Project Coordinator 4 X 0 0 0 0 0 2706 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 758519 0 758519 0 13028 13028 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 771547 13028 0 0 0 0 0 0 341241 341241 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7188 0 7188 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 135 0 135 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8098 0 8098 0 4713 0 4713 0 6024 0 6024 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2765 0 2765 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 370164 341241 28923 0 358205 746560 975000 988028 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 122576 0 122576 122576 1455781 1857164 0 0 X 1455781 1857164 0 0 0 0 1455781 1857164 1455781 1857164 401383 0 0 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 X 471131 507350 543632 624448 758519 2905080 471131 507350 543632 624448 758519 2905080 2905080 13028 13028 2918108 0 0.99554 1 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 3 Program Services Panah Charity Foundation provides humanitarian aid to homeless and the neediest families, widows, and children in the war torn county of Afghanistan. 341241 1 3 341241 0 0 0 0 0 0 Schedule F, Part I, Line 2 Panah Charity Foundation assists the neediest and homeless families, widows, and orphan children in Afghanistan. All the programs are helping the most unfortunate families and children there. The organization maintains very detail records of all expenses and maintains videos and photos from each program and project. The monthly expense journals includes all bills and invoices and they all get verified to the penny. The president of the foundation in USA reviews all monthly statements of expenses and reviews all bills and invoices plus watches the videos weekly. Ministries of Economics and Finance in Kabul Afghanistan require reports of all activities bi-annual and annually including all copies of bills, invoices, bank statement, and monthly expense reports. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 2 The president and vice president are to each other. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 9 Mirza Mohammad the Operating Manager who is manages the operation of the charity is residing in Afghanistan. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b Form 990 was reviewed and discussed during a meeting. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c Panah Charity Foundation follows exactly the policies related to non-profit 501c 3 at all time! The president of the non-profit holds meeting 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 policies and procedures. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 The organization's CEO/President, Vice President, Secretary, and other board members do not receive any type of compensation from the charity. The employees of the charity performing the day to day operation whom residing and working in Afghanistan are receiving compensation in Afghani currency, Their compensation is based on wages paid for the comparable jobs in Afghanistan. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 All documents are available upon request. Due to illness of the president, filling the return is late but an extension was submitted. This is the very first time that Panah Charity Foundation is late in submitting the return and we hope and kindly requests from IRS to accept the reason and excuse us. Pandemic and illness have affected the entire country since 2020 and Panah Charity Foundation's officers were also going through a rough time. Thank you very much for your consideration and your support.