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Ottawa, ON · Public foundation

Dress for Success Canada Foundation

Dress for success empowers women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support professional attire and development tools to help women thrive in work and life.

C$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
Regions reached
C$144k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$90,042
Median grant
7
Regions reached
C$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIVE TO GIVE RELIEF ORGANIZATIONC$144,093
MAKING CHANGES EMPLOYMENT ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTAC$120,005
DRESS FOR SUCCESS VANCOUVER SOCIETYC$113,102
DRESS FOR SUCCESS SASKATOON INC.C$91,270
SOUTH WINNIPEG FAMILY INFORMATION CENTREC$91,042
DRESS FOR SUCCESS REGINA INC.C$90,077
DRESS FOR SUCCESS CENTRAL ALBERTA WOMEN'S CENTREC$90,042
L'ÉTOFFE DU SUCCÈS MONTREAL/DRESS FOR SUCCESS MONTRÉALC$89,899
DRESS FOR SUCCESS KINGSTONC$87,292
DRESS FOR SUCCESS OTTAWA NATIONAL CAPITAL REGIONC$87,245
DRESS FOR SUCCESS KELOWNA SOCIETYC$87,042
DRESS FOR SUCCESS HALIFAX SOCIETYC$86,514
DRESS FOR SUCCESS ORILLIA AND BARRIEC$85,242
02Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$7.7M · 14 repeat orgsC$68k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
2

Total granted

C$7.7M
C$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
0%

Still filing today

93%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.”

Backed again, and grew

  • DF
    DRESS FOR SUCCESS VANCOUVER SOCIETY
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$999k · revenue +20% · 86% of their budget
  • LT
    LIVE TO GIVE RELIEF ORGANIZATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$716k · revenue +4%
  • DF
    DRESS FOR SUCESS OTTAWA NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$646k · revenue +36% · 51% of their budget

Funded once

  • DF
    DRESS FOR SUCCESS CALGARY CENTRE
    one grant, 2020 · C$44k · revenue 0% · 49% of their budget
  • DF
    DRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLD WIDE
    one grant, 2022 · C$24k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matches that aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Dress for Success Canada Foundation

Dress for success empowers women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support professional attire and development tools to help women thrive in work and life. the dress for success canada foundation supports this work…

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2
Suit Yourself - Wardrobe for Women Association

Suit Yourself is a volunteer driven organization that increases the confidence and self-esteem of women facing barriers to employment by providing them with on-on-one service to help them create a work appropriate wardrobe through access…

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3
Women's W.O.R.K. (Women Offering Resources & Knowledge)

providing programs for Canadian women to advance leadership skills and professional development.

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4
Femmes en Emploi
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5
Suits his Style

The program that is provided offers teens men and male-identified persons used semi-professional and professional attire for job interviews jobs court cases etc. These suits are free to all people; however a donation is accepted. All work…

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6
Times Change Women's Employment Service Inc

Getting started workshop: this workshop helps new clients to identify which times change programs best meet their needs. career planning workshop: this eight-session workshop is for women who are unclear about their career direction or who…

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7
Working Gear Clothing Society

Working gear community shop program: working gear provides work related clothing and footwear free of charge to individuals re-entering the workforce from a shop located in the downtown east side of vancouver. many of our clients are faced…

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8
The Princess Shop Mentorship and Female Youth Development Inc.

The princess shop creates an enhanced graduation experience for female identified students in need and provides them with mentorship support and the tools to pursue success after graduation. they provide the following programs: the dress…

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9
Build a Dream to Empower Women

The organization works with young women to support them in pursuing careers in which women are currently underrepresented.

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10
Women in Need Society of Calgary

The society was established in 1992 to help women and families to reach self-sufficiency through innovative and effective programs and services. wins' mission is 'connecting women and their families with resources to thrive'. the society…

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11
Ecoequitable inc.

Sewing for jobs: skills training program for newcomer women. public courses: production of conference bags and corporate gifts. recreational sewing classes boutique program: for textile and fabric recycling and redistribution

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12
Wear 2 Start Society

We provide donated clothing shoes accessories and jewelry to self-identifying women who require clothing for work and for life. in addition we provide a small bag of toiletry items to each client. when a client requires shoes and no…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dress for Success Saskatoon Inc. and the most unlike its peers is South Winnipeg Family Information Centre Inc.. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

02the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own CRA returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

12
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since you first funded

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%C$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS VANCOUVER SOCIETY — C$999,147 over 5y, 86% of budgetLIVE TO GIVE RELIEF ORGANIZATION — C$715,802 over 4y, 20% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCESS OTTAWA NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION — C$645,590 over 5y, 51% of budgetL'ÉTOFFE DU SUCCÈS MONTRÉAL/ DRESS FOR SUCCESS MONTRÉAL — C$609,417 over 5y, 40% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS ORILLIA AND BARRIE — C$567,660 over 5y, 67% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS REGINA INC. — C$558,492 over 5y, 85% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS KINGSTON — C$551,773 over 5y, 69% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS SASKATOON INC. — C$538,649 over 5y, 67% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS HALIFAX SOCIETY — C$530,727 over 5y, 85% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS KELOWNA SOCIETY — C$489,580 over 4y, 49% of budgetSOUTH WINNIPEG FAMILY INFORMATION CENTRE — C$478,612 over 4y, 47% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS CENTRAL ALBERTA WOMEN'S CENTRE — C$477,236 over 4y, 74% of budgetMAKING CHANGES EMPLOYMENT ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA — C$323,506 over 2y, 17% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS CALGARY CENTRE — C$44,109 over 1y, 49% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Ottawa Community Foun…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Shoppers Foundation f…Charities Aid Foundat…United Way of Greater…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…Canadahelps Canadon
Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'OttawaON10.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health Fondation Pharmaprixpour la Santé des Femmes · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · United Way of Greater Toronto · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · Canadahelps Canadon

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from the Canada Revenue Agency’s published T3010 data — your own annual information return and the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year) — each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program description on its T3010; we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without a BN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your T3010 annual information return for the fiscal period ending 2024-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under foundations.

Source object 775960289:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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