British Columbia · Registered charity
DRESS FOR SUCCESS KELOWNA SOCIETY
DRESS FOR SUCCESS KELOWNA SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 12 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$615,710 to it, the largest being DRESS FOR SUCCESS CANADA FOUNDATION (C$489,580). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
DRESS FOR SUCCESS KELOWNA SOCIETY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,360 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,360 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Rotary Club of Kelowna Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- The Colin & Lois Pritchard Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- The Merrifield Family Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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.
88% of DRESS FOR SUCCESS KELOWNA SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose C$80k → C$184k.
From the CRA filings of DRESS FOR SUCCESS KELOWNA SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
DRESS FOR SUCCESS KELOWNA SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 92%; 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 DRESS FOR SUCCESS KELOWNA SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 96% · 2022 69% · 2023 92% — 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 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
DRESS FOR SUCCESS KELOWNA SOCIETY draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside British Columbia, across 3 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$14k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 region is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 12 funders put you under-funded among the 364 organizations that share them.
- Rotary Club of Kelowna Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchBC · backs 36 organizations that share your funders · funds 23 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Colin & Lois Pritchard Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchBC · backs 36 organizations that share your funders · funds 19 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Merrifield Family Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchBC · backs 32 organizations that share your funders · funds 20 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Rogers' Family Charitable Trustlocalportfolio matchBC · funds 9 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way Southern Interior Bcshared funderslocalportfolio matchBC · backs 48 organizations that share your funders · funds 28 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Aberdeen Hall Preparatory School Societylocalportfolio matchBC · funds 6 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Kelowna Unitarian Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- HAB Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lions Club of Nelson Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Courage FoundationlocalBC · funds 13 organizations near you
- Central Okanagan Community Foodbank Societyshared funderslocalBC · backs 35 organizations that share your funders · funds 21 organizations near you
- Falcon Foundationshared funderslocalBC · backs 72 organizations that share your funders · funds 29 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like DRESS FOR SUCCESS KELOWNA SOCIETY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every charity on the CRA register — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In British Columbia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS KELOWNA SOCIETY?
- DRESS FOR SUCCESS KELOWNA SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 12 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$615,710 to it, the largest being DRESS FOR SUCCESS CANADA FOUNDATION (C$489,580). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DRESS FOR SUCCESS KELOWNA SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 12 organizations giving C$615,710 in grants to DRESS FOR SUCCESS KELOWNA SOCIETY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DRESS FOR SUCCESS KELOWNA SOCIETY?
- DRESS FOR SUCCESS CANADA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$489,580 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DRESS FOR SUCCESS KELOWNA SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in British Columbia.
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These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 12 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 September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register