Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
DRESS FOR SUCCESS LACKAWANNA
DRESS FOR SUCCESS LACKAWANNA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $127,236 to it, the largest being MARGARET BRIGGS FOUNDATION ($35,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
DRESS FOR SUCCESS LACKAWANNA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,584 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,584 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Metroaction Inclocal
- Adecco Group US Charities Incportfolio match
- Brides for a Causeportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.
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: 2019 11% · 2020 57% · 2022 25% · 2023 8% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of DRESS FOR SUCCESS LACKAWANNA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $18k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 LACKAWANNA’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 LACKAWANNA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
26% 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 LACKAWANNA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2019 100% · 2020 58% · 2021 47% · 2022 70% · 2023 57% — broadly stable.
“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
14% of DRESS FOR SUCCESS LACKAWANNA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
84% of DRESS FOR SUCCESS LACKAWANNA's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Metroaction InclocalPA · funds 161 organizations near you
- Adecco Group US Charities Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brides for a Causeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Women 4 Women Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jeannine y Francis Charitable Foundation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- T Causemetics Foundation Dba Thrive Causemetics Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Womens Funding Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- City Limits Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Anderson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Lancaster Countyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Women's Foundation of Alabamaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Amplify Her Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like DRESS FOR SUCCESS LACKAWANNA
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DRESS FOR SUCCESS LACKAWANNA: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS LACKAWANNA?
- DRESS FOR SUCCESS LACKAWANNA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $127,236 to it, the largest being MARGARET BRIGGS FOUNDATION ($35,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DRESS FOR SUCCESS LACKAWANNA have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $127,236 in grants to DRESS FOR SUCCESS LACKAWANNA, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DRESS FOR SUCCESS LACKAWANNA?
- MARGARET BRIGGS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DRESS FOR SUCCESS LACKAWANNA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 10funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing