2025-11-12T05:03:15-07:00 2024-12-31 990 2024-01-01 272637286 PANAH CHARITY FOUNDATION PANA 5107922629 4119 Tamayo Street Fremont CA 94536 Rokhshana Benish President 5107922629 2025-11-05 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Rokhshana Benish 4119 Tamayo Street Fremont CA 94536 706082 0 X panahcharity.org X 2010 CA Panah is a CHARITABLE non-profit foundation helping very poor and needy families in Afghanistan. Unfortunately majority of population in Afghanistan are living below the poverty level. There is no job and no income. Panah Charity is working hard to provide food to starving families & children, shelters for homeless widows/children, 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, provinces, and villages. 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 two employees in Kabul, Afghanistan. 3 3 0 3 0 0 641814 562475 0 0 42643 143607 0 0 684457 706082 281802 237491 0 0 4848 5468 0 0 0 18108 15082 304758 258041 379699 448041 3412261 3860302 0 0 3412261 3860302 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 78009 78008 Panah Charity provided basic food supplies packages to 1200 poor and homeless families in Afghanistan throughout 2024. They were families with young children living below the poverty level & majority of children were orphans. Panah Charity provided flour, rice, cooking oil, tea, sugar, beans, & lentil. Distribution of 1200 food packages fed 7500 individuals for a month for a total cost of $78,008 US dollars. This includes supporting families in winter season as well. Total allocation cost of transportation to distribution sites, banners, and some small miscellaneous expenses included. 67706 67706 Panah Charity provided monthly sponsorship to about 100 poor widows with young children and disabled individuals who can not work. With a minimal monthly support, the families had food for their children throughout the month. Total cost of monthly sponsorship program to widows was was $67,706 US dollars in 2024. 12190 12190 Panah Charity provided warm clothing such as jackets and boots to homeless children living in camps in winter of 2024 for $8,563. Panah also supported homeless children when they needed medicine for a total cost of $1,841 Us Dollars. Also Panah provided fans in 15 classrooms in JowzJan Province for a total of $1786 US dollars to control the heat in very hot summer days. Under this program in total over 1500 homeless & poor kids received support from Panah charity foundation. 34949 34949 Panah Charity provided meat & bread throughout the year and in Eid Qurban to hundreds of poor & homeless families throughout the country in 2024. Total expense of these type of humanitarian aid to families was $34,945 US Dollars. 19276 19276 Panah Charity Foundation provided emergency relief programs in 2024 for the victims of flood in Baghlan & Ghurat Provinces. Total cost of emergency relief programs was $19,276 US dollars in 2024. 10203 10203 Panah Charity Foundation in 2024 built 9 water wells in villages to create clean source of drinking water to poor families and children in those locations. Drought has caused lots of damages in villages and families are struggling finding clean source for drinking water. Total cost of this program was $10,203 US dollars. 15158 15158 Panah Charity Foundation built homes for three widows with young children for total cost of $11,294 in Herat Province in 2024. These widows had lost their homes during the earthquake in 2023 and had become homeless. Also Panah Charity Foundation provided solar to an orphanage in Herat Province to provide electricity for orphans classrooms and bedrooms. The cost of this project was $3,734 US dollars. 79586 0 79586 237491 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 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 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 AF 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 3 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 CA X Rokhshana Benish 5107922629 4119 Tamayo Street Fremont CA 94536 Mirza Mohammad Operating Manager and Supervisor in Afghanistan 45 45 X 0 0 3323 Masihullah Mehry Key Employee in Afghanistan 45 45 X 0 0 2124 Rokhshana Benish Presiden / Founder 35 35 X 0 0 0 Durrana Nejat Vice President 8 8 X 0 0 0 Jasmine Nejat Secretary 4 4 X 0 0 0 0 0 5447 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 562475 0 562475 0 143607 143607 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 706082 143607 0 0 0 237491 237491 5447 5447 0 21 21 3765 3765 3008 3008 0 3900 3900 3440 3440 534 534 435 435 258041 237491 20550 0 397042 372592 2892643 3365134 122576 0 122576 122576 3412261 3860302 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 3412261 3860302 0 0 0 0 3412261 3860302 3412261 3860302 448041 0 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 X 758519 964194 834178 641814 562475 3761180 758519 964194 834178 641814 562475 3761180 3761180 13028 42644 143607 199279 3960459 0 0.94968 0.98565 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 706082 0 0 0 0 0 706082 0 0 0 706082 258041 0 0 0 0 0 258041 0 0 0 258041 Europe (including Iceland and Greenland) Panah Charity Foundation due to banking problems was not able to send wires as before directly from USA to Afghanistan in 2024. In order to continue the mission and deliver humanitarian aid to the poorest families and children in Afghanistan, Panah Charity Foundation with the help and through Omed Foundation GGMBH which is a tax exempt non-profit foundation in Germany was able to deliver fund to Panah's branch in Kabul, Afghanistan. That enabled Panah Charity Foundation to still support thousands of families and young children in Afghanistan in 2024 via its program services. such as: providing food packages to starving children & families; providing monthly sponsorship to over 700 orphan children monthly; providing heating supplies in the freezing winter season, warm clothing, and blankets to children; Providing meat, powdered milk, school supplies and etc to kids; building water wells in villages; medical support to poor individuals; and providing emergency relief & more. 236000 Wire Transfer via Bank in USA 0 1 0 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 and Masihullah Mehry his assistant whom are managing the operation of the charity in Afghanistan, are both living in Kabul, Afghanistan. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b Annually return will be reviewed and discussed in a meeting before it's filled 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 president, vice president, and secretary are working as volunteers and do not receive any compensation from the non-profit. The operating Manager and the admin residing in Kabul, Afghanistan are receiving compensation based on salary paid for the comparable jobs in Afghanistan. Their compensations are paid in Afghani currency. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 All documents are available upon request. Panah Charity Foundation had filled an extension of time up to 11/15/2025 and extension was accepted by IRS.