Minnesota · Nonprofit
DRESS FOR SUCCESS TWIN CITIES
DRESS FOR SUCCESS TWIN CITIES (Minnesota) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,951,112 to it, the largest being DRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE ($250,526). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $949k
What Dress for Success Twin Cities does
Mission
Equipping low-income women with skills and resources for quality, long-term employment.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Empoweru is our employment readiness and career advancement training program, specifically designed for low-income women who are unemployed or underemployed. In 2024, empoweru classes supported 714 participants in developing employability skills, learning about their strengths, building professional networks, and accessing meaningful jobs. Women also develop a growth mindset and a positive network of support, to help them overcome workplace challenges. Our goal is for empoweru participants to gain long-term, family-sustaining employment in a quality career pathway.
$228,777 spent29% of program spendingThe business attire program provides low-income women with confidence kits to prepare them for job interviews and new employment. Each woman's kit is customized for her sizing and personal preferences, and includes clothing, accessories, and personal care products. We deliver kits to our participants to overcome the barrier of transportation. This year, 449 women received confidence kits.
$423,116 spentof which $254,150 as grants$-90,171 earned by the program53% of program spendingOur career center offers coaching, mentoring, and other 1:1 support for women seeking to enter the workforce or advance in their careers. We provide resume reviews, mock interviews, and online job search strategies. These individualized connections are part of the positive network of support that is essential for maintaining long-term employment.
$146,707 spent18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $798,600.
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 2020 to 2021, from $300k to $878k (+193%).
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 4% · 2021 8% · 2023 5% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
107% of DRESS FOR SUCCESS TWIN CITIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Stephanie Silvers
Executive director
Board chair
Toweya Brown-Ochs
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $27k → $311k.
12 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 TWIN CITIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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 TWIN CITIES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
51% 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 TWIN CITIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 42% · 2019 51% · 2020 20% · 2021 19% · 2022 18% · 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
70% of DRESS FOR SUCCESS TWIN CITIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
59% of DRESS FOR SUCCESS TWIN CITIES's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $698k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 TWIN CITIES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,551 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,551 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like DRESS FOR SUCCESS TWIN CITIES
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 TWIN CITIES: 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 TWIN CITIES?
- DRESS FOR SUCCESS TWIN CITIES (Minnesota) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,951,112 to it, the largest being DRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE ($250,526). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DRESS FOR SUCCESS TWIN CITIES have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $1,951,112 in grants to DRESS FOR SUCCESS TWIN CITIES, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DRESS FOR SUCCESS TWIN CITIES?
- DRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE is the largest funder on record, with $250,526 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DRESS FOR SUCCESS TWIN CITIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 40 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