Dress for Success Arizona

Analysis

Dress for Success Arizona is a registered charity in United States, based in Phoenix, AZ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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 Arizona reported income of $1.6m and spending of $2.0m, spending 123% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.4m to $1.6m (+17%), an average of +4.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 142%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Dress for Success Arizona sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 81st percentile within AZ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Life Perspectives ($1.6m), Upper Peninsula Family Solutions ($1.6m) and Family Builders Foster Care Inc ($1.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 110% and program service revenue 0.5% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $175k (8.9% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $668k. At year end it held assets of $1.5m against liabilities of $230k, net assets of $1.3m. It reported 14 employees.