Dress for Success Central Virginia
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 460733693
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-T 2024, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Richmond, VA, USA
- Phone
- 8042343034
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $123,592
- Expenses
- $137,841
- Assets
- $7,814
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Bianca Stewart Williams (President)
- Danielle Gilbert (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Bianca Stewart Williams (President)
- Danielle Gilbert (Vice President)
- Artensia Delbridge (Director)
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
To empower women to achieve economic independence by providing professional attire, a network of support, and the development tools to help women thrive in work and in life.
What it reported doing in 2025
N 2025, Dress for Success Central Virginia served women across the metro Richmond area through three signature programs. Through its Suiting Program, clients received professional interview attire and styling support from trained volunteers to help them present with confidence in the job market. Through its Career Center, women accessed career coaching, job search assistance, financial literacy workshops, and professional development resources designed to support long-term employment success. Through its Professional Women's Group (PWG), employed clients met regularly to build professional networks, share workplace experiences, and sustain career momentum through peer support and skill-building. The organization also delivered its Success Skills Program (SSP), providing workshops on self-empowerment, workplace readiness, and personal development to women navigating employment transitions. All services are provided at no cost to clients referred through partner agencies across the Richmond region.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.5%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 59.6%; rating input score 60
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11.5%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 31.7% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -21.3% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 66.5% of revenue deployed · 59.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $82K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.