Dress for Success Worldwide

Analysis

Dress for Success Worldwide is a registered charity in United States, based in New York, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1999, 27 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Dress for Success Worldwide reported income of $15.3m and spending of $15.6m, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $15.2m to $15.3m (+0.5%), an average of +0.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Dress for Success Worldwide sits at the 97th percentile: it is larger than about 97% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile, and in the 95th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include One Collective NFP ($15.2m), Kingsway Charities Inc ($15.3m) and West Africa Rice Development Association ($15.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 96% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $1.1m (7.0% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $2.3m. At year end it held assets of $13.1m against liabilities of $3.4m, net assets of $9.7m. It reported 42 employees.