Iowa · Nonprofit
DRESS FOR SUCCESS DES MOINES
DRESS FOR SUCCESS DES MOINES (Iowa) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $220,773 to it, the largest being DRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE ($55,190). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $259k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $221k
- Net assets
- $477k
What Dress for Success Des Moines does
Mission
The mission of 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.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Women obtain what they need for an interview - from clothing to confidence - and can return once they find employment for the apparel and accessories needed to enter the workforce. The styling experience program provides each client with a complete interview ensemble, incluiding a suit, blouse, hosiery, shoes, purse, jewelry, and portfolio, for her interview and workforce apparel when she finds a position. Dress for Success Des Moines also supports women through internships and has scrubs available in limited sizes to any woman who needs them for her job. This program served 279 women in 2023.
$50,954 spent40% of program spendingOur professional women's group empowers women in the workforce to retain and advance in their careers. Clients participate in a year-round professional development program designed to advance their skills, develop connections, foster resilience, and empower them both personally and professionally.
$25,477 spent20% of program spendingOur career service center is here to support you through resumes, mock interviewing, and our workshops. These programs support women as they address any possible obstacles to securing employment. Through the tools and resources, they receive, participants are empowered to continue ans succeed in their job searches. Our keys to success workshops provides participants with concrete skills on a variety of relevant topics including computer skills, personal branding, resume writing, interviewing successfully, and energizing the job search. Our experts are both knowledgeable and inspirational. This program served 75 women through programming in 2023.
$50,954 spent40% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $127,385.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $271k to $382k (+41%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 7% · 2021 17% · 2022 5% · 2023 3% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of DRESS FOR SUCCESS DES MOINES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (55% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $11k → $37k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 DES MOINES’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 DES MOINES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
90% 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 DES MOINES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 35% · 2019 55% · 2020 59% · 2021 63% · 2022 27% · 2023 27% — 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
50% of DRESS FOR SUCCESS DES MOINES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
57% of DRESS FOR SUCCESS DES MOINES's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $65k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 DES MOINES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,278 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,278 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like DRESS FOR SUCCESS DES MOINES
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 DES MOINES: 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 DES MOINES?
- DRESS FOR SUCCESS DES MOINES (Iowa) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $220,773 to it, the largest being DRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE ($55,190). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DRESS FOR SUCCESS DES MOINES have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $220,773 in grants to DRESS FOR SUCCESS DES MOINES, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DRESS FOR SUCCESS DES MOINES?
- DRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE is the largest funder on record, with $55,190 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DRESS FOR SUCCESS DES MOINES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 12 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