Kansas · Nonprofit
DRESS FOR SUCCESS WICHITA INC
DRESS FOR SUCCESS WICHITA INC (Kansas) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $135,434 to it, the largest being WICHITA FOUNDATION ($46,677). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2020
- $127k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $135k
- Net assets
- $0
What Dress for Success Wichita Inc 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 development tools to help women thrive in work and in life.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.
Program
Referral programs were established with other not-for-profit and governmental organizations. Approximately 204 clients are served annually. Service to clients included providing appropriate business clothing, as well as, ongoing support. Ongoing support provided by monthly professional women's group meetings (pwg meetings). The pwg meetings provide clients with dinner, a speaker and the opportunity to "shop" (at no cost) for additional clothing. Speakers volunteer from the community to speak on a range of topics; for example, creating resumes, interviewing, dealing with issues in the workplace, and an annual career fair. The number of clients who attend monthly pwg meeting averages between 20-25. Expenses are reported on the cash basis.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $176k to $0 (−100%).
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 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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 FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $22k → $5k.
3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 WICHITA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 14 of 15 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 WICHITA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% 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 WICHITA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 57% · 2019 76% · 2020 32% · 2021 99% — growing more concentrated.
“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
33% of DRESS FOR SUCCESS WICHITA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 20% 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 FY2021, 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
76% of DRESS FOR SUCCESS WICHITA INC's grant income comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $54k 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.
Organizations like DRESS FOR SUCCESS WICHITA INC
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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 WICHITA INC: 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 WICHITA INC?
- DRESS FOR SUCCESS WICHITA INC (Kansas) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $135,434 to it, the largest being WICHITA FOUNDATION ($46,677). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DRESS FOR SUCCESS WICHITA INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $135,434 in grants to DRESS FOR SUCCESS WICHITA INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DRESS FOR SUCCESS WICHITA INC?
- WICHITA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $46,677 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DRESS FOR SUCCESS WICHITA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 15 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