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STANDING STRAIGHT

EIN 46-3246105 ORINDA, CA

Largest nonprofits in California

Revenue 2024
$190,241
Expenses 2024
$102,574

Program services were 97.2% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q33
Classification
1000
Street
21 ORINDA WAY STE C PMB 267

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Primary exempt purpose

Provide spine deformity surgical and medical services to extremely deformed impoverished children in areas without access to medical care and to train the local medical and surgical staff in these regions for early diagnosis and unnecessary severe deformities and death in young adults.

  • In 2024 the organization was able to successfully complete 2 in person medical mission. More than 30 highly skilled surgical and medical staff volunteered and provided their expertise. The mission's accomplishment included 19 extremely complex lifesaving spine surgeries for a group of extremely impoverished children with no other access to medical care. The service saved a few children from paralysis, gave a child a chance to get out of a wheelchair and walk, relieved all children from severe daily pains and difficulty in taking care of their basic necessities. After the surgical care all children were able to get up, stand straight, and most are either back to or getting ready to get back to school. The surgeries of the children also freed more than 50 family members from daily and routine care giving duties for the patients and has enabled them to get more rest and have more time to earn money to assist with their extreme impoverished living conditions. Other services delivered by the organization was online screening of MRI and X-ray of patients who needed emergency care and virtually assisted and guided local surgeons to save a child from paralysis and allowed our team of surgeons to plan and arrive at the best plan of action before arrival at the service delivery site which saved a lot of planning time and allowed maximum time for the volunteers to give the medical care and recovery services. All these services were provided by extremely skilled US Surgeons for Free.

    Expenses $95,097

  • Ability to virtually help with surgical interventions by allowing remote posting of x-rays and MRI's of children in desperate need of surgical intervention on our website and through the internet access of our volunteers. Through virtual guidance our team of surgical and neuromonitoring volunteers have been able to guide the lesser trained surgical staff in remote areas to help reduce further damage and serious negative medical consequences during 2023 and for future years thereby reducing serious complications of surgery.

    Expenses $3,392

  • One of our accomplishments for the program service has been to move away from collecting funds via mails and tracking detail donor information by volunteers. We use a lot of social media to promote and get donation from our current donors and mainly all the medical staff who are and have been participating in these Medical Missions. Also, by using Paypal services and asking most of our donors to donate using our donate button it has saved the organization's volunteers time to focus on medical mission planning and other services that allow the organization to improve our services. We do have donors who like mailed documents showing our progress and services provided so in 2023 we did mailing of documents as well but we plan on doing that just every few years.

    Expenses $1,192

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Ravinder Bains MD

    CEO, Chief Spine Mission Surgeon

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Kanwaljit Gill MD

    Vice President, Chief Orthopedic Lead Surgeon

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Gina Turner PMB

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Nirmal Singh

    Chief Neuromonitor and Mission Lead

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Jackie Cummings RN

    OR Mission Coordinator

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Diane Bautista RN

    RN PICU Misson Coordinator

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ricardo Charles CRN

    Chief OR and Surgical Care Medical Advisor

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Erica Bains MBA PhD

    CFO Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $190,241
    Expenses
    $102,574
    Contributions
    $183,443
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $148,993
    Expenses
    $114,403
    Contributions
    $148,469
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $81,316
    Expenses
    $75,242
    Contributions
    $81,316
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $12,157
    Expenses
    $3,058
    Assets (EOY)
    $232,483

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2014

Tax period
1 January 2014 to 31 December 2014
Principal officer
Ravinder Bains
Mailing address
24 Hilldale CourtOrinda CA 94563
Website
standingstraight.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.