Idaho · Nonprofit
Dress For Success Boise Inc
Dress For Success Boise Inc (Idaho) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,559 to it, the largest being PEEL BALISZEWSKI FAMILY FOUNDATION ($60,079). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $214k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $84k
- Net assets
- $469k
What Dress For Success Boise Inc does
Mission
Empower disadvantaged women to achieve economic independence by providing them professional interview attire, a network of support and the career development tools to help women thrive in work and life.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Dress for success Boise shop - helps women achieve a professional image that allows them to go into any workplace, interview and acquire a job. We do this by giving them appropriate interview clothing while providing them with encouragement and coaching on how to complete a successful interview. Once a women is hired, she can return for a second outfit and is invited to become part of the DFS professional womens group. In 2024 the number of women served in the Dress for Success Shop was 146, some of them returning for second time for additional work attire.
$59,571 spent47% of program spendingThe Mobile Boutique - We had a new truck donated in 2023 which allowed the team to see more clients. The truck was able to travel to agency locations around Idaho, including homeless shelters and womens prisions. In 2024 we served 86 women with the Mobile Boutique.
$34,302 spent27% of program spendingProfessional Womens Group (PWG) - is a networking association for disadvantaged women entering the workforce, to help them retain their job. The PWG promotes career development by offering new information that will help women unfamiliar with the workplace to develop their skills and transition into employment mainstream. Members of PWG receive intimate exposure to expert professionals who attend the meetings. Membership in the PWG is open to Dress for Success Boise clients who have successfully gained employment. There are currently 20 women who consistently benefit through the networking support of the Professional Womens Group.
$32,008 spent25% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $125,881.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $234k to $346k (+48%).
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.
39% of Dress For Success Boise Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (54% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Rachel Flichel
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $16k → $13k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Dress For Success Boise Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Dress For Success Boise Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
28% 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 Boise Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 60% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
Dress For Success Boise Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Idaho, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Dress For Success Boise Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,276 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,276 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Dress For Success Boise Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Idaho
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Dress For Success Boise Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Dress For Success Boise Inc?
- Dress For Success Boise Inc (Idaho) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,559 to it, the largest being PEEL BALISZEWSKI FAMILY FOUNDATION ($60,079). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Dress For Success Boise Inc have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $83,559 in grants to Dress For Success Boise Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Dress For Success Boise Inc?
- PEEL BALISZEWSKI FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $60,079 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Dress For Success Boise Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Idaho. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing