Bella Closet
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 843077522
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Clarksville, TN, USA
- Phone
- 9316246716
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Employment Procurement Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $73,913
- Expenses
- $42,635
- Assets
- $60,085
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Cynthia Pitts (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Cynthia Pitts (Executive Director)
- Faye Forsythe (Secretary)
- Angie Smith (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Bellas Closet is committed to helping the women of Clarksville look and feel their best no matter their social or financial situations. Headed by local business women, Bella's Closet stresses the importance of uplifting, empowering and assisting women in order to improve their lives. Two community minded ladies started discussing ways to assist women, who may, due to life circumstances, need help updating their wardrobe entering the job market. Even when other organizations held give aways or very low cost choices, we still wanted more for Bella's Closet. The intent was to address the whole woman, not just clothing. We strive to provide goods and services to help women met their life goals. And while the clothing is free, we also provide resume building, workshops for interview skills or finance building (credit repair). Along side those workshops, we bring mentoring professionally and spiritually as well as network training with other women in leadership, to expand their career.
What it reported doing in 2025
Served over 1200 women and families this year by providing clothing, support, and mentoring.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 57.7%; rating input score 58
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 42.3%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.41; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 95.9% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 71.5% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 52.6% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 57.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $43K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 58/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.