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BEST IS AHEAD FOUNDATION INC

EIN 88-3207201 ASHTON, MD

Revenue 2024
$1,250,005
Expenses 2024
$1,024,728

Program services were 99.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
O50
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 9

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 Best Is Ahead Foundation is dedicated to empowering communities through comprehensive literacy initiatives, promoting mental wellness, and fostering awareness around gun violence and substance abuse. We believe that by providing education and resources, we can cultivate informed, resilient individuals and families. Our mission is to create a safe, supportive, environment where every person has the opportunity to thrive, learn, and contribute to a healthier, more compassionate society.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Our mission is to create a safe, supportive, environment where every person has the opportunity to thrive, learn, and contribute to a healthier, more compassionate society.

  • The Best is Ahead Foundation (TBIAF) was founded to enhance the lives of the underserved youth in the Baltimore and Washington DC metropolitan areas while focusing on four key initiatives: 1. Curbing gun violence 2. Decreasing drug and alcohol dependency 3. Assist with mental health awareness 4. Literacy Improvement within the community

    Expenses $1,024,728

  • The Best is Ahead Foundation (TBIAF) has created community partners that have established relationships with youth organizations in our community to work with underserved youth in our area. TBIAF works with our partners for their programs and events in the community. Our players talk to the youth about our four key initiatives and serve as a role model and mentor with their personal stories on achieving their goal of being a collegiate athlete. The focus is always on our four key initiatives and dedicating yourself at an early age to stay the course. We have witnessed instant connections with the youth.

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.

  • Michael Locksley

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Dr Laurie Williams-Hogarth PhD

    Board Member at Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kia Locksley

    VP, Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Gal Kaufman

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Julie Visperas

    Director of Events

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Dr Laura Taylor

    Board Member at Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $1,250,005
    Expenses
    $1,024,728
    Contributions
    $1,250,000
    Grants paid
    $1,001,808
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,637,881
    Expenses
    $1,783,996
    Contributions
    $1,637,398
    Grants paid
    $90,350
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $392,755
    Expenses
    $236,984
    Contributions
    $392,679
    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.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

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