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STRAIGHT AHEAD ORGANIZATION

EIN 85-3392795 PITTSBURGH, PA

Revenue 2024
$804,701
Expenses 2024
$610,655

Program services were 69.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
Street
213 SMITHFIELD ST 217

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

Mission

THE PURPOSES FOR WHICH THE CORPORATION IS ORGANIZED ARE TO PROMOTE SOCIAL WELFARE WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 501(C)(4) OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO: (1) DEVELOPING AND ADVOCATING FOR LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS, AND GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS THAT ARE STEPS TOWARDS THE ABOLITION OF RACISM AND (2) CONDUCTING RESEARCH AND PUBLICIZING THE POSITIONS OF ELECTED OFFICIALS CONCERNING THESE ISSUES.

  • THE STRAIGHT AHEAD ORGANIZATION (FORMED ON OCTOBER 9, 2020) IS A PENNSYLVANIA NONPROFIT CORPORATION THAT WILL BE UNDERTAKING A STATEWIDE CAMPAIGN TO PASS LEGISLATION THAT WILL OFFER PAROLE OPPORTUNITIES FOR MORE THAN 1,100 PEOPLE SERVING LIFE-WITHOUT-PAROLE (LWOP) SENTENCES FOR FELONY MURDER CONVICTIONS, AND FOR THE 10,000 ELDERLY INCARCERATED PEOPLE SERVING LONG OR LIFE SENTENCES THAT WILL LIKELY END WITH THEIR DEATH IN PRISON WITHOUT PAROLE REFORM. THIS PROGRAM WILL ALLOW US TO PASS LEGISLATION THAT WILL CONTRIBUTE SUBSTANTIALLY TOWARD SHIFTING THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IN PENNSYLVANIA FROM A PUNITIVE TO A RESTORATIVE PARADIGM, BY: 1) INTRODUCING LEGISLATION AND KEEPING A PERMANTENT PRESENCE IN THE STATE CAPITOL OF HARRISBURG; 2) CREATING A STATEWIDE STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS CAMPAIGN THAT WILL CHANGE THE NARRATIVE AROUND LWOP, LONG-TERM INCARCERATION, VIOLENT OFFENSES, AND PAROLE ELIGIBILITY; AND 3) ORGANIZING IMPACTED COMMUNITIES AND ALLIED ORGANIZATIONS ACROSS THE STATE TO TRAIN THEM AS ADVOCATES AND BUILD LEGISLATIVE SUPPORT, WITH AN EMPHASIS ON DIRECTLY IMPACTED PEOPLE, PROGRESSIVE ORGANIZATIONS, FAITH GROUPS, AND ACTIVISTS ACROSS THE STATE TO CHANGE NARRATIVES AROUND CRIME, VIOLENCE, AND INCARCERATION.

    Expenses $425,355

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • BRET GROTE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • ROBERT HOLBROOK

    PRESIDENT/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • ASHLEY JIMENEZ

    TREASURER/BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • RUKIA LUMUMBA

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • DUSTIN GIBSON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • SHANDRE DELANEY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • ALISSA DEPIRO

    SECRETARY/DIRECTOR OF FINANCE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

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
    $804,701
    Expenses
    $610,655
    Contributions
    $804,701
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $339,633
    Expenses
    $1,426,808
    Contributions
    $311,593
    Grants paid
    $393,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,241,138
    Expenses
    $946,900
    Contributions
    $1,205,961
    Grants paid
    $67,854
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,241,138
    Expenses
    $946,900
    Contributions
    $1,205,961
    Grants paid
    $67,854

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

    Revenue
    $45,516
    Expenses
    $744,830
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,296,368

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,000,020
    Expenses
    $13,649
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,993,640

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.

Grants made

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Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.