2018-11-05T00:57:15-07:00 2017-12-31 990 2017-01-01 272637286 PANAH CHARITY FOUNDATION PANA 5107922629 4119 Tamayo Street Fremont CA 94536 Rokhshana Benish President 5107922629 2018-10-31 98.207.127.116 2017 2019-02-21 02:37:17Z Rokhshana Benish 4119 Tamayo Street Fremont CA 94536 507350 0 X panahcharity.org X 2010 CA Panah 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. 5 5 0 4 0 0 471131 507350 0 0 0 0 0 0 471131 507350 213698 299721 0 0 8247 7807 0 0 0 26381 21779 248326 329307 222805 178043 543654 807177 0 0 543654 807177 Panah 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. 0 0 74080 74080 Panah 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. 74750 74750 Panah 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. 15829 15829 In 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. 79530 79530 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 $79,530 in 2017. 16600 16600 Panah 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. 38932 38932 Panah 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. 135062 0 135062 299721 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 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 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 Rokhshana Benish Presiden / Founder 40 X 0 0 0 Durrana Rahimi Vice President 2.00 X 0 0 0 Jasmine Nejat Secretary 3 X 0 0 0 Shamsullah Mehry Project Coordinator 8 8 X 0 0 0 Mirza Mohammad Operating Manager and Supervisor in Afghanistan 45.00 X 0 0 2764 0 0 2764 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 507350 0 507350 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 507350 0 0 0 299721 299721 0 0 0 0 7111 0 7111 696 0 696 3850 3850 0 3350 3350 11579 0 11579 3000 0 3000 329307 299721 29586 0 498286 643017 45368 164160 543654 807177 0 0 X 543654 807177 0 0 0 0 543654 807177 543654 807177 X 178043 0 0 0 0 85480 X 0 0 0 X 287890 275420 407109 471131 507350 1948900 287890 275420 407109 471131 507350 1948900 1948900 1948900 1 1 X Available fund in Panah Charity's bank account in Afghanistan as of 12/31/17. 164160 164160 1 South Asia 1 3 Program Services Panah 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. 314688 1 3 314688 0 0 0 0 0 0 Schedule F, Part I, Line 2 Panah 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. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 2 The Founder's daughter is the Vice President. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 9 The 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 11b Form 990 were reviewed completely before filling during a meeting. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c The 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 15 Panah 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 19 Information can be provided upon request. Form 990, Part XI, Line 9 A 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.