New York · Public charity
Dress for Success Worldwide
DRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE empowers women to achieve economic mobility by providing a network of support, professional attire, and development tools to help women thrive in work and in life.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 47
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.6M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,873
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $120,415
- Organizations funded a year
- 47 to 59
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 29
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Dress for Success Worldwide funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $288k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 45 | $1.6M | 2% |
| FY2024 | 47 | $1.6M | 6% |
| FY2023 | 55 | $1.9M | 7% |
| FY2022 | 52 | $1.1M | 8% |
| FY2021 | 51 | $1.1M | 20% |
| FY2020 | 59 | $1.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dress for Success San Francisco | $628,415 | 6 | 11% |
| Dress for Success Columbus | $480,907 | 6 | 8% |
| Dress for Success Greater Chicago | $389,915 | 2 | n/a |
| Dress for Success Boston Inc | $372,080 | 6 | 22% |
| Dress for Success Central Virginia | $304,405 | 6 | 85% |
| Dress for Success Atlanta Inc | $295,370 | 6 | 16% |
| Dress for Success Tampa Bay Inc | $286,973 | 6 | 18% |
| Dress for Success Greater Philadelphia | $281,198 | 4 | 59% |
| Dress for Success Central New Jersey | $254,329 | 6 | 13% |
| Dress for Success Twin Cities | $250,526 | 6 | 6% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Dress for Success Worldwide supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 68 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
How this is measured
About Dress for Success Worldwide
- How much does Dress for Success Worldwide give?
- Dress for Success Worldwide reported 47 itemized grants totaling $1,568,218, out of $1,887,475 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 47 and 59 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Dress for Success Worldwide fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (76%), Human Services (9%), Civil Rights (8%).
- Who are Dress for Success Worldwide's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Dress for Success San Francisco ($628k), Dress for Success Columbus ($481k), Dress for Success Greater Chicago ($390k).
- Does Dress for Success Worldwide fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dress for Success Worldwide?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charles Schwab Foundation, Cla Foundation, Tc Energy Foundation.
- Where is Dress for Success Worldwide based?
- Dress for Success Worldwide is based in NY.
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