North Carolina · Nonprofit
DRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC
DRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC (North Carolina) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,398,989 to it, the largest being TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($808,268). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 66
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Dress for Success Triangle Nc does
Mission
Empower women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support, professional attire, and development tools to help women thrive in work and life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
A total of 4,556 unique women received one or more of the following services from dress for success triangle in 2025: career coaching: individualized one-on-one coaching to help women identify career goals, develop job search strategies, strengthen resumes, prepare for interviews, and advance their careers. In 2025 we provided 807 career coaching sessions. Image coaching: personalized styling sessions providing workplace-appropriate clothing, styling guidance, and confidence-building to help women prepare for interviews, employment, and career advancement. In 2025 we provided 745 image coaching sessions. Mobile boutique: mobile styling events that bring workplace attire, styling services, and career resources directly to women in communities across central and eastern north carolina, reducing transportation barriers and expanding access to services. In 2025, 2,585 clients visited one of our mobile boutiques. Going place network: a cohort-based program with weekly sessions offering training, one-on-one career coaching, networking, mock interviews, assessments, and community support. In 2025, there were 101 graduates of gpn. Career pathways: virtual industry panels featuring…
$1,237,807 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,237,807.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.4M to $1.9M (+32%).
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: 2017 1% · 2020 10% · 2021 7% · 2023 23% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of DRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Patricia Pepper
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $117k → $437k.
18 of 66 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 TRIANGLE NC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 66 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 TRIANGLE NC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
58% 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 TRIANGLE NC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 32% · 2019 30% · 2020 22% · 2021 34% · 2022 42% · 2023 12% — 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
53% of DRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
64% of DRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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 TRIANGLE NC's funding base is broadening — from 10 funders to 21 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like DRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 TRIANGLE NC: 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 TRIANGLE NC?
- DRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC (North Carolina) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,398,989 to it, the largest being TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($808,268). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC have?
- IRS filings report 66 organizations giving $3,398,989 in grants to DRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC?
- TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $808,268 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 66 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