How much did Dress for Success Worldwide grant in FY2024?

Dress for Success Worldwide reported 48 itemized grants totaling $1,565,169, out of $1,934,953 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is Dress for Success Worldwide based?

Dress for Success Worldwide is based in NY.

Dress for Success Worldwide

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· Public charity

Dress for Success Worldwide

Dress for success supports unemployed and underemployed women to achieve economic independence and thrive in work and in life.

$1.9M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$270k

Largest

01What you fund

01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Employment$5.2MHuman Services$606kCivil Rights$538kYouth Development$354kCommunity Improvement$69kEducation$54k

02FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 48 grants below total $1,565,169 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,934,953 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $369,784 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k14 grants · $106k
$10k–50k25 grants · $619k
$50k–250k8 grants · $570k
$250k+1 grant · $270k

$19,526

Median grant

States reached

$12M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
DRESS FOR SUCCESS GREATER CHICAGO	$269,500
DRESS FOR SUCCESS CENTRAL VIRGINIA	$115,681
DRESS FOR SUCCESS SAN FRANCISCO	$91,595
DRESS FOR SUCCESS ATLANTA	$71,821
DRESS FOR SUCCESS GREATER PHILADELPHIA	$65,290
DRESS FOR SUCCESS DENVER	$63,939
DRESS FOR SUCCESS WASHINGTON DC	$56,164
DRESS FOR SUCCESS COLUMBUS	$54,154
DRESS FOR SUCCESS TWIN CITIES	$51,608
DRESS FOR SUCCESS BOSTON	$42,840
DRESS FOR SUCCESS PHOENIX	$41,423
DRESS FOR SUCCESS TAMPA BAY	$40,046
DRESS FOR SUCCESS CHARLOTTE	$39,991
DRESS FOR SUCCESS CINCINATTI	$36,554
DRESS FOR SUCCESS MIAMI	$36,049

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$6.4M · 59 repeat orgs$456k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

59 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.4M

$167k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%

+20%

Still filing today

88%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $288k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesEmploymentPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementEducationCivil RightsOther

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.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

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DRESS FOR SUCCESS SAN FRANCISCO
5× · 2020–2024 · $538k · revenue +122%
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DRESS FOR SUCCESS BOSTON INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $310k · revenue +59%
DF
DRESS FOR SUCCESS ATLANTA INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $230k · revenue +60%

Funded once

DF
DRESS FOR SUCCESS GREATER ORLANDO
one grant, 2020 · $22k
DF
DRESS FOR SUCCESS MICHIANA INC
one grant, 2022 · $19k · revenue +20%
DF
DRESS FOR SUCCESS ALLENTOWN
one grant, 2020 · $19k

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

04Your 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 matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Dress for Success Sacramento

Dress for Success Sacramento is an affiliate of Dress for Success Worldwide a nonprofit that empowers women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support professional attire and the development tools to help women…

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Dress for Success Chattanooga

The mission of Dress for Success Chattanooga is to empower women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support, professional attire and the development tools to help women thrive in work and in life. We help women…

Employment

Dress for Success Northwest Arkansas

We empower women toward economic independence by providing a network of support, prfoessional attire, and programs that help them thrive in work and in life.

Human Services

Dress for Success Lexington Inc

To empower women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support, professional attire and development tools to help them thrive in work and in life.

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Women Achieving Success

Employment

Dress for Success Corpus Christi

The mission of Dress for Success Corpus Christi is to empower and enable disadvantaged women to be economically self-sufficient by providing proper work attire and access to a network of support and career related training.

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Capital District Women's Employment & Resource Center Inc

Women's success in the workplace program participants receive career counseling, computer skills, workforce preparation training job placement, and ongoing supportive follow-up. they leave the program with enhanced skills.

Employment

Dress for Success Wichita Inc

The mission of dress for success is to empower women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support, professional attire and development tools to help women thrive in work and in life.

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Dress for Success Hartford County Inc

The mission for dress for success is to empower women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support, professional attire and the development tools to help women thrive in work and in life.

Human Services

Success in Style

To assist disadvantaged individuals from diverse backgrounds who are unemployed or underemployed in finding meaningful work by providing interview appropriate clothing.

Employment

Bella Closet

Bellas Closet is committed to helping the women of Clarksville look and feel their best no matter their social or financial situations. Headed by local business women, Bella's Closet stresses the importance of uplifting, empowering and…

Employment

WOMEN4PROGRESS (Fka Women's Initiative for Progress)

Philanthropy

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

Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 17% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%1/80

the rest of the field

13%

240,395/1,819,485

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

69 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 69 of the 80 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

67/69

Grantees still filing

46/69

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Employment$2,652,189Human Services$2,431,353Civil Rights$537,598Other$550,143Philanthropy$324,921Public Benefit$181,121Community Improvement$131,014

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

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.

Charles Schwab FoundationCO18.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charles Schwab Foundation · Cla Foundation · Tc Energy Foundation · AARP Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · 7-Eleven Cares Foundation · T Causemetics Foundation Dba Thrive Causemetics Foundation · The Gap Foundation · BBVA Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Synchrony Foundation

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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Dress for Success Worldwide funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

11get no government money at all

21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines