Nevada · Nonprofit
DRESS FOR SUCCESS RENO- NORTHERN NEVADA
DRESS FOR SUCCESS RENO- NORTHERN NEVADA (Nevada) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $121,555 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($58,144). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $198k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $122k
- Net assets
- $56k
What Dress for Success Reno- Northern Nevada does
Mission
Dress for success reno northern nevada (dfsrnn) is the local affiliate to dress for success worldwide, a global nonprofit organization that empowers 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
Suiting program - dfsrnn provides professional interview attire for women that have secured an interview with a local company. Dfsrnn also provides up to a week's worth of professional attire if the woman successfully lands the job. Attire provided included suits, blouses, dresses, shoes, purses, overcoats and accessories. Dfsrnn suited 143 women for interview purposses and 103 women for working attire in 2024. Included in the revenue and expense above are 27,874 of donated clothing from the community and national vendors. In 2024, dfsrnn had over 2,550 volunteer hours.
Professional women's group - along with the success of landing a new job, newly employed women often encounter an unfamiliar set of employment obstacles. From understanding corporate culture to managing personla finances, career novices are often left to navigate the unwritten rules of the workplace with little or no support. The professional women's group (pwg) bolsters the careers of successfully employed dress for success women by providing them with a network of support, practical information, and inspiration to remain employed so they can truley thrive. This program is administered through monthly dinner meetings in which a guest speaker presents a topic that will give these women tools to be successful both in theri job and life. In 2024, 15 women attended these meeting.
Career center - our career center provides women with services such as resume review, linkedin profiles and mock interview. Volunteers that specialize in human resources and recruiting work with these women to provide tools that help with landing a job. The career center is also a self-serve area for out clients that need use of a computer and /or printer.
Accepts donations of clothing for use in funding programs.
$245,541 spentof which $27,874 as grants100% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $245,541.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $123k to $67k (−46%).
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.
68% of DRESS FOR SUCCESS RENO- NORTHERN NEVADA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (54% 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
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $6k → $22k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 RENO- NORTHERN NEVADA’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 RENO- NORTHERN NEVADA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
75% 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 RENO- NORTHERN NEVADA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 90% · 2022 84% · 2023 50% — 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 RENO- NORTHERN NEVADA's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 67% 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
61% of DRESS FOR SUCCESS RENO- NORTHERN NEVADA's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $47k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from funders outside Nevada, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $74k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 RENO- NORTHERN NEVADA's revenue fell 27% between 2019 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,276 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like DRESS FOR SUCCESS RENO- NORTHERN NEVADA
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 Nevada
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 RENO- NORTHERN NEVADA?
- DRESS FOR SUCCESS RENO- NORTHERN NEVADA (Nevada) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $121,555 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($58,144). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DRESS FOR SUCCESS RENO- NORTHERN NEVADA have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $121,555 in grants to DRESS FOR SUCCESS RENO- NORTHERN NEVADA, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DRESS FOR SUCCESS RENO- NORTHERN NEVADA?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $58,144 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DRESS FOR SUCCESS RENO- NORTHERN NEVADA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nevada. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 9 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