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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 FY2025still arriving
47
Grants FY2025still arriving
29
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Employment$5.2MHuman Services$606kCivil Rights$538kYouth Development$354kCommunity Improvement$69kEducation$54k
02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 47 grants below total $1,568,218, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,887,475 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $319,257 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $782k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $721k
$30,873
Median grant
29
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DRESS FOR SUCCESS GREATER CHICAGO$120,415
DRESS FOR SUCCESS CENTRAL VIRGINIA$104,531
DRESS FOR SUCCESS GREATER PHILADELPHIA$83,788
DRESS FOR SUCCESS ATLANTA$65,792
DRESS FOR SUCCESS TAMPA BAY$64,098
DRESS FOR SUCCESS BOSTON$61,972
DRESS FOR SUCCESS CENTRAL NEW JERSY$57,818
DRESS FOR SUCCESS SAN FRANCISCO$55,821
DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON$55,469
DRESS FOR SUCCESS CLEVELAND$51,425
DRESS FOR SUCCESS CINCINNATI$43,706
DRESS FOR SUCCESS WASHINGTON DC$43,079
DRESS FOR SUCCESS COLUMBUS$42,826
DRESS FOR SUCCESS AUSTIN$42,052
DRESS FOR SUCCESS SEATTLE$41,187
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $3.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DRESS FOR SUCCESS PHOENIX: $41k → 11%DRESS FOR SUCCESS BOSTON: $97k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS BUFFALO: $33k → 13%DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $62k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS PALM BEACHES: $36k → 11%DRESS FOR SUCCESS MICHIGAN: $36k → 14%DRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC: $40k → 8%DRESS FOR SUCCESS CHARLOTTE: $52k → 10%DRESS FOR SUCCESS WINSTON SALEM: $37k → 15%DRESS FOR SUCCESS ATLANTA: $72k → 13%DRESS FOR SUCCESS NORTHERN NEW JERSEY (UNDER THE NAME DRESS FOR SUCCESS): $38k → 4%DRESS FOR SUCCESS CENTRAL NEW JERSEY: $70k → 11%DRESS FOR SUCCESS CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $116k → 22%DRESS FOR SUCCESS PHOENIX: $35k → 11%DRESS FOR SUCCESS BOSTON: $63k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $55k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS MICHIGAN: $25k → 14%DRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC: $35k → 8%DRESS FOR SUCCESS CHARLOTTE: $42k → 10%DRESS FOR SUCCESS ATLANTA: $72k → 13%DRESS FOR SUCCESS NORTHERN NEW JERSEY: $35k → 4%DRESS FOR SUCCESS CENTRAL NEW JERSY: $58k → 11%DRESS FOR SUCCESS CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $105k → 22%DRESS FOR SUCCESS PHOENIX: $31k → 11%DRESS FOR SUCCESS BOSTON: $62k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $49k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS MICHIGAN: $24k → 14%DRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC: $33k → 8%DRESS FOR SUCCESS CHARLOTTE: $40k → 10%DRESS FOR SUCCESS ATLANTA: $66k → 13%DRESS FOR SUCCESS NORTHERN NEW JERSEY: $35k → 4%DRESS FOR SUCCESS CENTRAL NEW JERSEY: $53k → 11%DRESS FOR SUCCESS CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $32k → 22%DRESS FOR SUCCESS PHOENIX: $23k → 11%DRESS FOR SUCCESS BOSTON: $61k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $40k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS CHARLOTTE: $37k → 10%DRESS FOR SUCCESS ATLANTA: $35k → 13%DRESS FOR SUCCESS NORTHERN NEW JERSEY: $29k → 4%DRESS FOR SUCCESS CENTRAL NEW JERSEY: $39k → 11%DRESS FOR SUCCESS CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $23k → 22%DRESS FOR SUCCESS BOSTON: $47k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $31k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS CHARLOTTE: $30k → 10%DRESS FOR SUCCESS ATLANTA: $33k → 13%DRESS FOR SUCCESS NORTHERN NEW JERSEY: $27k → 4%DRESS FOR SUCCESS CENTRAL NEW JERSY: $26k → 11%DRESS FOR SUCCESS BOSTON: $43k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.2M · 61 repeat orgs$184k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

61 repeat relationships: 44 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
19

Total granted

$8.2M
$177k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+5%

Still filing today

89%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEmploymentPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementEducationCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • DF
    DRESS FOR SUCCESS SAN FRANCISCO
    6× · 2020–2025 · $628k · revenue +101%
  • DF
    DRESS FOR SUCCESS BOSTON INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $372k · revenue +59%
  • DF
    DRESS FOR SUCCESS CENTRAL VIRGINIA
    6× · 2020–2025 · $304k · revenue +96% · 85% of their budget

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
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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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2
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
3
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
4
Women Achieving Success
Employment
5
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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6
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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7
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.

International
8
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
9
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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10
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
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dress for Success Worcester Inc; the most unlike its peers is California State University Los Angeles Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 69 of the 81 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/69
Grantees still filing
46/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DRESS FOR SUCCESS COLUMBUS: $480,907 · EmploymentDRESS FOR SUCCESS COLUMBUSDress for Success Greater Chicago: $389,915 · EmploymentDress for Success Greater ChicagoDRESS FOR SUCCESS GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $281,198 · EmploymentDRESS FOR SUCCESS GREATER PHILADELPHIADRESS FOR SUCCESS TWIN CITIES: $250,526 · EmploymentDRESS FOR SUCCESS TWIN CITIESDRESS FOR SUCCESS WASHINGTON DC: $242,722 · EmploymentDRESS FOR SUCCESS WASHINGTON DCCONNECTIONS TO SUCCESS: $190,231 · EmploymentCONNECTIONS TO SUCCESSDRESS FOR SUCCESS PITTSBURGH: $179,504 · EmploymentDRESS FOR SUCCESS PITTSBURGHDress for Success Seattle: $162,580 · EmploymentDress for Success Cincinnati: $156,939 · EmploymentDRESS FOR SUCCESS ROCHESTER INC: $137,009 · EmploymentSUITED TO SUCCEED INC: $124,870 · EmploymentDRESS FOR SUCCESS CLEVELAND: $121,958 · EmploymentDRESS FOR SUCCESS CHARITY NEW ORLEANS: $116,351 · Employment+13 more: $459,418 · Employment+13 moreDRESS FOR SUCCESS BOSTON INC: $372,080 · Human ServicesDRESS FOR SUCCESS BOSTON INCDRESS FOR SUCCESS CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $304,405 · Human ServicesDRESS FOR SUCCESS CENTRAL VIRGINIADRESS FOR SUCCESS ATLANTA INC: $295,370 · Human ServicesDRESS FOR SUCCESS ATLANTA INCDRESS FOR SUCCESS CENTRAL NEW JERSEY: $254,329 · Human ServicesDRESS FOR SUCCESS CENTRAL NEW JERSEYDRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $237,303 · Human ServicesDRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTONDress for Success Charlotte: $218,420 · Human ServicesDress for Success CharlotteDRESS FOR SUCCESS NORTHERN NJ-10 COUNTIES INC: $172,165 · Human ServicesDRESS FOR SUCCESS NORTHERN NJ-10 COUNTIE…DRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC: $167,106 · Human ServicesDRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NCDRESS FOR SUCCESS PHOENIX: $165,440 · Human ServicesDRESS FOR SUCCESS PHOENIXDRESS FOR SUCCESS MICHIGANINC: $131,336 · Human Services+18 more: $710,234 · Human Services+18 moreDRESS FOR SUCCESS SAN FRANCISCO: $628,415 · Civil RightsDRESS FOR SUCCESS HARTFORD: $120,698 · OtherDRESS FOR SUCCESS MIAMI: $109,959 · OtherDRESS FOR SUCCESS NASHVILLE: $93,846 · OtherDRESS FOR SUCCESS: $53,132 · OtherDRESS FOR SUCCESS MID FAIRFIELD: $35,900 · OtherDRESS FOR SUCCESS GREATER ORLANDO: $21,600 · OtherDRESS FOR SUCCESS LUZERNE COUNTY: $38,559 · OtherDRESS FOR SUCCESS HAMPTON ROADS: $24,056 · Other+13 more: $109,464 · OtherDress for Success Tampa Bay Inc: $286,973 · PhilanthropySUITS TO CAREERS INC: $122,859 · PhilanthropyDress for Success Denver: $221,677 · Public BenefitDRESS FOR SUCCESS AUSTIN: $111,070 · Community ImprovementDRESS FOR SUCCESS DALLAS: $76,033 · Community Improvement
Employment$3,294,128Human Services$3,028,188Civil Rights$628,415Other$607,214Philanthropy$409,832Public Benefit$221,677Community Improvement$187,103

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS SAN FRANCISCO: $628,415 over 6y, 11% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS COLUMBUS: $480,907 over 6y, 8.1% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS BOSTON INC: $372,080 over 6y, 22% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $304,405 over 6y, 85% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS ATLANTA INC: $295,370 over 6y, 16% of budgetDress for Success Tampa Bay Inc: $286,973 over 6y, 18% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $281,198 over 4y, 59% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS CENTRAL NEW JERSEY: $254,329 over 6y, 13% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS TWIN CITIES: $250,526 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS WASHINGTON DC: $242,722 over 6y, 45% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $237,303 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetDress for Success Denver: $221,677 over 6y, 12% of budgetDress for Success Charlotte: $218,420 over 6y, 8.5% of budgetCONNECTIONS TO SUCCESS: $190,231 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS PITTSBURGH: $179,504 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS NORTHERN NJ-10 COUNTIES INC: $172,165 over 6y, 7.4% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC: $167,106 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS PHOENIX: $165,440 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetDress for Success Seattle: $162,580 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetDress for Success Cincinnati: $156,939 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS ROCHESTER INC: $137,009 over 4y, 34% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS MICHIGANINC: $131,336 over 6y, 30% of budgetSUITED TO SUCCEED INC: $124,870 over 6y, 69% of budgetSUITS TO CAREERS INC: $122,859 over 6y, 11% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS CLEVELAND: $121,958 over 6y, 10% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS CHARITY NEW ORLEANS: $116,351 over 6y, 10% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS AUSTIN: $111,070 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS WORCESTER INC: $93,645 over 5y, 12% of budgetALBANY COUNTY OPPORTUNITY INC: $78,042 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetDress for Success Winston-Salem: $77,735 over 5y, 11% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS DALLAS: $76,033 over 4y, 25% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS LOUISVILLE INC: $74,541 over 6y, 10% of budgetDress for Success Oklahoma City Inc: $73,065 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS INDIANAPOLIS: $66,489 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS PALM BEACHES: $66,126 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS MEMPHIS: $61,434 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS BROOKHAVEN INC: $57,927 over 3y, 54% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS BUFFALO: $57,671 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS DES MOINES: $55,190 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS JACKSON: $38,954 over 3y, 56% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS SW FLORIDA INC: $38,877 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS LUZERNE COUNTY: $38,559 over 4y, 9.5% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN: $38,225 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS SOUTHERN NEVADA: $37,724 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS RIVER CITIES INC: $35,965 over 3y, 13% of budgetSUCCESSFUL CONNECTIONS INC: $26,070 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS HAMPTON ROADS: $24,056 over 3y, 15% of budgetDress For Success of Western Massachusetts: $23,524 over 4y, 4.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

  • Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS SAN FRANCISCO ↗
  • Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS COLUMBUS ↗
  • Who funds Dress for Success Greater Chicago ↗
  • Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS CENTRAL VIRGINIA ↗
  • Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS ATLANTA INC ↗
  • Who funds Dress for Success Tampa Bay Inc ↗
  • Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS CENTRAL NEW JERSEY ↗
  • Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS TWIN CITIES ↗
  • Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS WASHINGTON DC ↗
  • Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds Dress for Success Denver ↗
  • Who funds Dress for Success Charlotte ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTIONS TO SUCCESS ↗
  • Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS NORTHERN NJ-10 COUNTIES INC ↗
  • Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC ↗
  • Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS PHOENIX ↗
  • Who funds Dress for Success Seattle ↗
  • Who funds Dress for Success Cincinnati ↗
  • Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS ROCHESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS MICHIGANINC ↗
  • Who funds SUITED TO SUCCEED INC ↗
  • Who funds SUITS TO CAREERS INC ↗
  • Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS CHARITY NEW ORLEANS ↗
  • Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS AUSTIN ↗
  • Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS WORCESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ALBANY COUNTY OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
  • Who funds Dress for Success Winston-Salem ↗
  • Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS DALLAS ↗
  • Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS LOUISVILLE INC ↗
  • Who funds Dress for Success Oklahoma City Inc ↗
  • Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS INDIANAPOLIS ↗
  • Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS PALM BEACHES ↗
  • Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS MEMPHIS ↗

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.

Charles Schwab Founda…Cla FoundationTc Energy FoundationAARP FoundationMcKesson Foundation I…7-Eleven Cares Founda…T Causemetics Foundat…The Gap FoundationBBVA FoundationThe Richard M Schulze…Enterprise Holdings F…Synchrony Foundation
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dress for Success Worldwide funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dress for Success Worldwide. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 81 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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 an EIN, 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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