Dress for Success of Oregon Inc

Analysis

Dress for Success of Oregon Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Portland, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1998, 28 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 of Oregon Inc reported income of $664k and spending of $621k, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.8m to $664k (-62%), an average of -22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 35%. Over the whole period it spent 108% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Dress for Success of Oregon Inc sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile, and in the 75th percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Verland Commons ($664k), Family Resource Center Inc ($664k) and Lone Star Chapter of the National Hemophilia Foundation ($664k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 109% and program service revenue 7.4% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $128k (21% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $176k. At year end it held assets of $476k against liabilities of $246k, net assets of $230k. It reported 6 employees.