2026-04-02T23:35:12Z 2024-12-31 990 2024-01-01 874785571 AFGHAN SCOUT RELIEF FUND AFGH 5757793368 PO BOX 2847 RANCH DE TAOS NM 87557 Stephen Gates President 5757793368 2026-04-02 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X Stephen Gates RANCH DE TAOS NM 87557 RANCH DE TAOS NM 87557 549736 false X afghanscoutrelieffund.org X 2022 NM The ASRF Afghan Scout Relief Fund purpose is to provide food aid and education assistance to boys and girls of the Afghan scouting movement and Afghan scout leaders and volunteers` families 3 3 0 32 0 0 173596 549736 0 0 0 0 0 173596 549736 193124 138539 0 0 12612 12612 0 362084 193124 513235 -19528 36501 56504 100814 28252 50407 28252 50407 The ASRF Afghan Scout Relief Fund purpose is to provided food aid and educational assistance to boys and girls of the Afghan scouting movement. false false 1 63468 Afghanistan - Our Afghan efforts include food support for over 30 families, many of them the families of our students in the US (Hard to study when your family is starving). We also provide modest financial support for certain scout families to cover medical costs, private school tuition so as to keep their sons out of madrassas, wood and coal for heating in the winter and other miscellaneous but necessary costs. We also provide a small amount of financial support to those who help us move and shelter young women as they transit through Afghanistan to our Pakistan operations. 2 106282 Pakistan - Our mission to support Scout refugees started in Pakistan in late 2022. For 2023 we were supporting up to 60 people, families and principal applicants with P1, P2 or SIV referrals. We rented four large homes, paid numerous Pakistan visa fees to keep everyone legal and paid for all living costs including food, utilities, clothing, etc This operation also included housing and supporting over a dozen of our students from Pakistan while they studied and prepared for their US embassy F1 student visa interview. We also provided the exit fee for each student, as well as plane ticket to the US. 3 324207 548814 UNITED STATE - In 2023 we brought over 13 students to high schools and colleges. We equipped them with a new computer, phone, school supplies, dorm supplies if needed, clothing, spending money so they did not have to rely on their sponsor families for everything, internal plane flights, dental care, mental health counseling as needed, etc. We were entirely volunteer in 2023, so our administrative expenses were minimal. 493957 true true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 0 0 false 0 false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false 0 0 0 0 false false 0 0 false false false false false X 3 3 false false false false false false false true true false false false false false false false false false false NM X StephenGates 5757793368 RANCH DE TAOS RANCH DETAOS NM 87557 Stephen Gates President 40.00 40.00 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 false false false 0 549736 549736 549736 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 138539 138539 12612 12612 30260 30260 27267 27267 60405 60405 Afghan Students Tuition and Education supplies - USA 244152 244152 513235 473356 27267 12612 26881 46698 1371 3709 0 0 28252 50407 56504 100814 24270 0 28252 26137 28252 50407 X 28252 50407 0 0 0 0 28252 50407 56504 100814 36501 -14346 X true X false false false false X 0 173596 549736 723332 0 0 0 173596 549736 723332 0 0 0 723332 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 173596 549736 723332 X 1.00000 1.00000 0.00000 0.00000 RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Supporting Afghan Scout students and families Pakistan 50 138539 Wire transfers and credit card 0 0 Individual Afghan Scouts volunteer Finance director manages all the financial duties in Pakistan . false false false false false false Stephen Gates President To support the operation of the organization X 31137 26137 false true false 26137 Part VI, Line 19 The software has a glitch and we do not response here. Our effort in 2023 and 2024 centered on the literal extraction/rescue of young high school and college women from Taliban controlled Afghanistan. To do that we created an Underground Railroad of sorts, with men pretending to be there 'mahram', taking great risks getting through checkpoints and moving these young women between safe houses before we got them legally over the border. We had, and still must, protect these people and these young women and were told we must not change our website at all once built (and we haven't in 3 1/2 years). Also, to try to hold off on submitting our 990 so as to make the Taliban, who have a whole Intelligence Directorate monitoring ALL international groups involved with Afghans, think absolutely nothing is happening and that we are in essence not operating. Hence, the delay. But, we can only delay so long or be so horribly out of compliance we'd lose our charity status, so we're having to take this chance by filing. We've managed to get 36 students here, 33 of them young women, many of them harrowing experiences for the girls, but thanks to the Taliban not knowing we're doing it, we've made it happen. We've also gotten over 20 out to other countries. Given the travel ban on travel to the US for Afghans, we're no longer in need of hiding our efforts to pursue education for Afghan Scouts and other deserving young women