Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
STRAIGHT AHEAD ORGANIZATION
STRAIGHT AHEAD ORGANIZATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,394,000 to it, the largest being OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC ($2,000,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $805k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $688k
What Straight Ahead Organization does
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.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
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…
$425,355 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $425,355.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.6M to $540k (−67%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Robert Holbrook
President/executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $2.0M → $40k.
From the IRS filings of STRAIGHT AHEAD ORGANIZATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
STRAIGHT AHEAD ORGANIZATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund STRAIGHT AHEAD ORGANIZATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 71% · 2022 67% · 2023 63% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
STRAIGHT AHEAD ORGANIZATION draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like STRAIGHT AHEAD ORGANIZATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STRAIGHT AHEAD ORGANIZATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds STRAIGHT AHEAD ORGANIZATION?
- STRAIGHT AHEAD ORGANIZATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,394,000 to it, the largest being OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC ($2,000,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STRAIGHT AHEAD ORGANIZATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $3,394,000 in grants to STRAIGHT AHEAD ORGANIZATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STRAIGHT AHEAD ORGANIZATION?
- OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STRAIGHT AHEAD ORGANIZATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 7 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing