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PANAH CHARITY FOUNDATION: Form 990, tax year 2017

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Organization
PANAH CHARITY FOUNDATION (EIN 27-2637286)
Tax period
2017-01-01 to 2017-12-31
Filed
2018-11-05
IRS object ID
201803099349300870
Schema version
2017v2.0
Source
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Every field in the e-filed return. Faint text is the IRS element name, for citing.

Return header ReturnHeader

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Return2018-11-05T00:57:15-07:00ReturnTs
Tax Period End2017-12-31TaxPeriodEndDt
Return Type990ReturnTypeCd
Tax Period Begin2017-01-01TaxPeriodBeginDt

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EIN272637286EIN

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Phone5107922629PhoneNum

US Address USAddress

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Address Line14119 Tamayo StreetAddressLine1Txt
CityFremontCityNm
State AbbreviationCAStateAbbreviationCd
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FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
PersonRokhshana BenishPersonNm
Person TitlePresidentPersonTitleTxt
Phone5107922629PhoneNum
Signature2018-10-31SignatureDt

Filing Security Information FilingSecurityInformation

IP Address IPAddress

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I Pv4 Address98.207.127.116IPv4AddressTxt
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Principal OfficerRokhshana BenishPrincipalOfficerNm

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Address Line14119 Tamayo StreetAddressLine1Txt
CityFremontCityNm
State AbbreviationCAStateAbbreviationCd
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FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Gross Receipts$507,350GrossReceiptsAmt
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Organization501c3Yes (X)Organization501c3Ind
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Type Of Organization CorpYes (X)TypeOfOrganizationCorpInd
Formation2010FormationYr
Legal Domicile StateCALegalDomicileStateCd
Activity Or MissionPanah is a CHARITABLE non-profit foundation helping poor and needy families mostly in Afghanistan. More than 9 million individuals are living below the poverty level in Afghanistan. In 2016 Panah Charity added one more goal to its mission and that was building shelters for 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.ActivityOrMissionDesc
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MissionPanah is a CHARITABLE non-profit foundation with active 501c (3) status. This charity was formed in 2010 to help poor and homeless families. Since 2010 Panah Charity has been helping the war-torn country of Afghanistan. Panah Charity builds shelters for homeless families and move them from makeshift tents to comfortable rooms with facilities. Panah Charity also creates the self-sufficiency opportunity for poor families, builds water wells in poor and very dry villages in Afghanistan, and delivers basic food supplies and heating supplies to the families of young children in order for them to survive. Panah Charity is also supporting homeless and poor orphans with clothing and school supplies. Panah Charity also helps the poor families with their medical bills, cost of surgery, and hospitalization. Panah Charity is expanding it's mission and helping more and more families every year.MissionDesc
Significant New Program Srvc0SignificantNewProgramSrvcInd
Significant Change0SignificantChangeInd
Expense$74,080ExpenseAmt
Revenue$74,080RevenueAmt
DescPanah Charity provided heating supplies to displaced and homeless families during the freezing winter season of 2016 in Afghanistan. These families were living below the poverty level in Afghanistan and in each household there are at least 7-8 family members including young children. Winter is a deadly season for poor young children in Afghanistan. In winter 2017 Panah Charity was able to deliver heating supplies to over 1300 poor families, blankets to 600 widows, food supplies to 450 families, and warm clothing to 1000 homeless children living in makeshift tents.Desc

Prog Srvc Accom Acty2 ProgSrvcAccomActy2Grp

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Expense$74,750ExpenseAmt
Revenue$74,750RevenueAmt
DescPanah Charity provided basic food supplies to 1031 poor and homeless families in Afghanistan in 2017. These are families with young children living below the poverty level. Panah Charity provided flour, rice, cooking oil, tea, sugar, onion, potato, and salt. This humanitarian aid fed 7,900 individuals for a month for a total cost of $51,084. 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 $23,666.Desc

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Expense$15,829ExpenseAmt
Revenue$15,829RevenueAmt
DescIn 2017 Panah Charity built 11 water wells in many different villages and locations where poor and homeless families are living. In those locations children had to walk miles to bring drinking water from other water wells and this was very difficult particularly during the summer and winter seasons. By building these water wells Panah Charity helped needy families and also saved children from transportation of water in buckets from miles away. Cost of building 11 water well was $15,829 in 2017.Desc

Prog Srvc Accom Acty Other ProgSrvcAccomActyOtherGrp (3 entries)

ExpenseExpenseAmtRevenueRevenueAmtDescDesc
$79,530$79,530Panah 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 $79,530 in 2017.
$16,600$16,600Panah Charity delivered clothing to homeless children twice in 2017. These kids were living in tents and needed clothing and shoes. Panah Charity based on their size and gender provided clothing to 1850 homeless children. Cost of purchasing these clothing from Kabul, Afghanistan was $16,600 in 2017.
$38,932$38,932Panah Charity provided humanitarian aids to many needy families throughout the year 2017. 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 $38,932 in 2017.
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Total Program Service Expenses$299,721TotalProgramServiceExpensesAmt
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Schedule B RequiredYes (1)ScheduleBRequiredInd
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Subject To Proxy Tax0SubjectToProxyTaxInd
Donor Advised Fund0DonorAdvisedFundInd
Conservation Easements0ConservationEasementsInd
Collections Of Art0CollectionsOfArtInd
Credit Counseling0CreditCounselingInd
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PersonRokhshana BenishPersonNm
Phone5107922629PhoneNum

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Form990 Part VII Section A Form990PartVIISectionAGrp (5 entries)

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Rokhshana Benish
Presiden / Founder40Yes (X)$0$0$0
Durrana Rahimi
Vice President2.00$0$0$0Yes (X)
Jasmine Nejat
Secretary3$0$0$0Yes (X)
Shamsullah Mehry
Project Coordinator8$0$0$0Yes (X)8
Mirza Mohammad
Operating Manager and Supervisor in Afghanistan45.00$0$0$2,764Yes (X)
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Total$299,721TotalAmt
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Total$3,350TotalAmt
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Total$11,579TotalAmt
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BOY$498,286BOYAmt
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BOY$0BOYAmt
EOY$0EOYAmt
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Organization Follows SFAS117Yes (X)OrganizationFollowsSFAS117Ind

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EOY$807,177EOYAmt

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BOY$0BOYAmt
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EOY$807,177EOYAmt
FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Info In Schedule O Part XIYes (X)InfoInScheduleOPartXIInd
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Method Of Accounting CashYes (X)MethodOfAccountingCashInd
Accountant Compile Or Review0AccountantCompileOrReviewInd
FS Audited0FSAuditedInd
Federal Grant Audit Required0FederalGrantAuditRequiredInd

Schedule A IRS990ScheduleA

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Public Organization170Yes (X)PublicOrganization170Ind

Gifts Grants Contri Rcvd170 GiftsGrantsContriRcvd170Grp

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Current Tax Year Minus4 Years$287,890CurrentTaxYearMinus4YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus3 Years$275,420CurrentTaxYearMinus3YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus2 Years$407,109CurrentTaxYearMinus2YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus1 Year$471,131CurrentTaxYearMinus1YearAmt
Current Tax Year$507,350CurrentTaxYearAmt
Total$1,948,900TotalAmt

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Current Tax Year Minus3 Years$275,420CurrentTaxYearMinus3YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus2 Years$407,109CurrentTaxYearMinus2YearsAmt
Current Tax Year Minus1 Year$471,131CurrentTaxYearMinus1YearAmt
Current Tax Year$507,350CurrentTaxYearAmt
Total$1,948,900TotalAmt
FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Public Support Total170$1,948,900PublicSupportTotal170Amt
Total Support$1,948,900TotalSupportAmt
Public Support CY1701PublicSupportCY170Pct
Public Support PY1701PublicSupportPY170Pct
Thirty Thr Pct Suprt Tests CY170Yes (X)ThirtyThrPctSuprtTestsCY170Ind

Schedule B IRS990ScheduleB

Schedule D IRS990ScheduleD

Other Assets Org OtherAssetsOrgGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
DescAvailable fund in Panah Charity's bank account in Afghanistan as of 12/31/17.Desc
Book Value$164,160BookValueAmt
FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Total Book Value Other Assets$164,160TotalBookValueOtherAssetsAmt

Schedule F IRS990ScheduleF

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Grant Records MaintainedYes (1)GrantRecordsMaintainedInd

Account Activities Outside US AccountActivitiesOutsideUSGrp

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
RegionSouth AsiaRegionTxt
Offices1OfficesCnt
Employee3EmployeeCnt
Type Of Activities ConductedProgram ServicesTypeOfActivitiesConductedTxt
Specific Services ProvidedPanah Charity has an office in Kabul, Afghanistan and delivering humanitarian services to the neediest and homeless families throughout the year under different program services. Total expenditure in Panah Charity's office in 2017 in Kabul, Afghanistan was $314,688. Out of this amount, $299,721 was directly toward program services and $14,967 was cost of maintaining the office including utilities, payroll for the employees, computer exp, transportation exp, and etc.SpecificServicesProvidedTxt
Region Total Expenditures$314,688RegionTotalExpendituresAmt
FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Total Office1TotalOfficeCnt
Total Employee3TotalEmployeeCnt
Total Spent$314,688TotalSpentAmt
Transfer To Foreign Corp0TransferToForeignCorpInd
Interest In Foreign Trust0InterestInForeignTrustInd
Foreign Corp Ownership0ForeignCorpOwnershipInd
Passive Foreign Investmest Co0PassiveForeignInvestmestCoInd
Foreign Partnership0ForeignPartnershipInd
Boycott Countries0BoycottCountriesInd

Supplemental Information Detail SupplementalInformationDetail

FieldValueIRS element (for citing)
Form And Line ReferenceSchedule F, Part I, Line 2FormAndLineReferenceDesc
ExplanationPanah Charity Foundation supports the neediest and homeless families in Kabul, Afghanistan. Panah Charity conducts a complete survey of their living condition before any aid has been delivered to them. We maintain complete videos of the surveys, receipts of every items we purchase for them, and videos of distributing the aid. Panah Charity Foundation is registered in Afghanistan as a charity and based on regulation of charities in Kabul, we always need to inform the ministry of Economics before any service program we conduct and at least one representative from the ministry of Economics would be present during our program. At the end of every six months we need to submit a very detail report of every penny we spend in the region with all backup receipts and invoices to ministries of Economics and Finance in Kabul. They each maintain a complete folder on Panah Charity's activities in Kabul, Afghanistan.ExplanationTxt

Schedule O IRS990ScheduleO

Supplemental Information Detail SupplementalInformationDetail (7 entries)

Form And Line ReferenceFormAndLineReferenceDescExplanationExplanationTxt
Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 2The Founder's daughter is the Vice President.
Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 9The Operating Manager of Panah Charity Foundation by the name of Mr. Mirza Mohammad is residing in Kabul, Afghanistan and he can't be reached at the address in the United States. Panah Charity Foundation's office address in Kabul, Afghanistan is as following: Panah Charity Foundation, Nahya 10, Sarak 11, Home #2, Taimani, Kabul, Afghanistan
Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11bForm 990 were reviewed completely before filling during a meeting.
Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12cThe organization completely performs according to the policies and regulations of 501 c (3) of non profit organization. The Founder who is also the President has extensive financial and management background and she monitors the financials and performance of the foundation very closely and with significant details at all time. She also monitors the activities, program services, and financials of Panah Charity in Afghanistan very carefully. She reviews every single invoice, documents, bills, contract, and etc to ensure the accuracy of work and financial data. Also she maintains all backup including complete sets of bills and invoices for each and every expense throughout the year plus photos and videos of program services as back ups.
Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15Panah Charity Foundation's officers in USA including the president do not receive any type of compensation or benefit for their services. They are working 100 percent voluntarily to support the neediest families and children in Afghanistan. Only the employees of this foundation who resides in Kabul, Afghanistan are receiving compensation in Afghani currency. Their compensation is determined based on comparability data.
Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19Information can be provided upon request.
Form 990, Part XI, Line 9A wire transfer from Panah Charity's bank account in USA to Panah Charity's bank account in Afghanistan for a total of $65,000 was made late in December of 2016 and wire didn't post in Panah Charity's account in Afghanistan until beginning of January 2017. The $65,000 plus $20,480 balance remaining in Panah Charity's bank account in Afghanistan from prior years requires an adjustment of $85480 in 2017 in order to completely report balances in both accounts to the penny.

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