2020-11-06T22:53:52-07:00 2019-12-31 990 2019-01-01 272637286 PANAH CHARITY FOUNDATION PANA 5107922629 4119 Tamayo Street Fremont CA 94536 Rokhshana Benish President 5107922629 2020-11-04 73.162.250.133 2019 2021-01-29 14:40:06Z Rokhshana Benish 4119 Tamayo Street Fremont CA 94536 624448 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 543632 624448 0 0 0 0 0 0 543632 624448 362213 225786 0 0 8444 8240 0 0 0 21884 21125 392541 255151 151091 369297 1080844 1455781 0 0 1080844 1455781 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 75384 75384 Panah Charity provided basic food supplies to 1111 poor and homeless families in Afghanistan in 2019 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, potato, and salt. This humanitarian aid fed 7775 individuals for a month for a total cost of $52,635.40. Also, Panah Charity in Eid celebration provided sheep meat to thousands of poor people who can't afford to eat meat on a regular basis. The total cost of serving meat to families and children was $21,650. Total cost of transportation to distribution sites, banners, and some small miscellaneous expenses was $1098. 84435 84435 Panah Charity provided monthly sponsorship to over 100 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 $84,435 in 2019. 36873 36873 Panah Charity provided heating supplies, food supplies, and blankets to hundreds of homeless families in 2019. 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, and Dec of 2019 was $36,873 US dollars. 3462 3462 Panah Charity provided school uniforms, shoes, school supplies, and etc to some homeless students in 2019 for $3462 24272 24272 Panah Charity provided humanitarian aids to many needy families throughout the year 2019. 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 $24,272 in 2019. 1360 1360 Panah Charity built 1 more water wells in 2019. 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 but building a deep water wells solved their problems. Cost of building these wells was $1360 US dollars. 29094 0 29094 225786 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 45 X 2556 0 0 Rokhshana Benish Presiden / Founder 48 X 0 0 0 Durrana Rahimi Vice President 8 X 0 0 0 Jasmine Nejat Secretary 5 X 0 0 0 Shamsullah Mehry Project Coordinator 4 X 0 0 0 2556 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 624448 0 624448 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 624448 0 0 0 225786 225786 6174 6174 1863 1863 203 203 0 6310 6310 5009 5009 7089 7089 2717 2717 0 255151 225786 29365 0 958268 358205 975000 122576 0 122576 122576 1080844 1455781 0 0 X 1080844 1455781 0 0 1080844 1455781 1080844 1455781 X 369297 0 0 0 0 5640 X 0 0 0 X 407109 471131 507350 543632 624448 2553670 407109 471131 507350 543632 624448 2553670 2553670 2553670 1 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 1 South Asia 1 3 Program Services Panah Charity Foundation conducts different program services in Afghanistan such as: Building shelters for homeless families, providing food supplies to starving children and families, providing winter aid programs in the winter season, creating self sufficiency opportunities, sponsoring children and creating educational opportunities for them, building classrooms, vocational workshops, building water wells, supporting families during emergencies / disasters, saving children from child-labor, sponsorship programs, and supporting poor families with medical bills. 225786 1 3 225786 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 designed to help the most unfortunate families and children there. The organization maintains detail records of all expenses plus videos and hundreds of photos from each program and projects. The bookkeeping and recordkeeping is in detail format and very accurate. The monthly expense journals including bills, invoices, photos, and videos are monthly reviewed by the president of Panah Charity in the USA. Panah Charity is fully registered in Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Economics in Afghanistan and bi-annually needs to submit returns and provide detail of all activities of the non-profit. Ministry of Economics and Finance monitoring programs and projects of Panah Charity Foundation in Afghanistan throughout the years. 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 Mgr who is manages the operation of the charity is residing in Afghanistan. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b All content of 990 will be reviewed in meetings going through all the details. Complete documentation exists for Revenue and Expenses of the non-profit. 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 job in Afghanistan. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 All documents are available upon request. Form 990, Part XI, Line 9 The ending bank balance in Panah Charity Foundation's account in Afghanistan's bank at the 2018 was 78389.92 but by mistake it was added $72502.92. The net difference is $5877. Due to exchange of some transaction from Afghani to dollar there is an additional difference of -$237. The net of the two amount is $5640 and it's adjusted in 2019 to correct the ending balance carried from 2018 into 2019. Due to some hardship, an extension of time was filed and it was approved by IRS to submit the return by 11/15/20.