North Carolina · Nonprofit
Dress for Success Charlotte
Dress for Success Charlotte (North Carolina) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,613,789 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($326,459). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Dress for Success Charlotte does
Mission
A womens advancement center, 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 thrive in work and in life. Programs and services include job preparedness, including interview and workplace attire, job acquisition, employment retention and advancement, IT access, support and training, financial literacy, and mental and physical health and wellness.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Professional Womens Group (PWG): A membership-based association that meets monthly to network, retain employment and advance careers, the PWG strives to teach members about workplace communication, corporate culture, financial literacy/wealth building, balancing family and work, and more. Membership grew by nearly 38% in 2024. Mental Health and Wellness programming continued to be offered in these meetings and to all members throughout the year. Going Places Network (GPN): A specially-designed program for chronically unemployed and underemployed, GPN provides a curriculum that blends a proven methodology to improve the career prospects of unemployed and underemployed women and helps these women gain professional skills, accelerate their job searches and build confidence through weekly training sessions, one-on-one career coaching and networking in a supportive environment. Virtual and in-person programming currently meets twice a week over a 4-week period. Once employment is secured, clients are invited to enroll in the Professional Womens Group program where clients report earning $20,000 -$50,000+ annually.Career Center: A fully equipped business office for clients to use on…
$428,357 spent92% of program spendingInterview and Employment Suiting: Overall, more than 677 women utilized workforce development programs and services in 2024. Of those, 581 women (unduplicated) participated in this program in 2024. Offered free of charge, this program provides two complete interview outfits, including shoes and accessories, and when she secures employment, she will receive up to five outfits for an instant working wardrobe. This service is often the first point of contact for those seeking job preparedness and job acquisitions services.
$37,031 spentof which $37,031 as grants8% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $465,388.
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 $1.2M to $1.6M (+31%).
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.
54% of Dress for Success Charlotte’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Jessica Graham
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $59k → $244k.
10 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 Charlotte’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 funders by total. 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 Charlotte has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
48% 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 Charlotte.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 33% · 2019 25% · 2020 29% · 2021 52% · 2022 31% · 2023 21% — 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–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
38% of Dress for Success Charlotte's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
Dress for Success Charlotte draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $547k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states 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 Charlotte holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Dress for Success Charlotte
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
48% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Dress for Success Charlotte?
- Dress for Success Charlotte (North Carolina) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,613,789 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($326,459). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Dress for Success Charlotte have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $1,613,789 in grants to Dress for Success Charlotte, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Dress for Success Charlotte?
- The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $326,459 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Dress for Success Charlotte find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 35 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing