Fashion Industry Initiative
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 393821763
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2025
- Location
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 4807715522
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $198,000
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Tricee Thomas (President)
- Chantel Hardison (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Tricee Thomas (President)
- Dream Bullock (Secretary)
- Chantel Hardison (Vice President)
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 provide hands-on fashion education, workforce development, and creative industry training for youth and emerging creatives, focusing on technical skills, design literacy, and career pathways.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provided hands-on fashion education and workforce development programming for youth ages 817. Participants learned sewing, garment construction, and design fundamentals through project-based instruction. Approximately 100+ youth benefited from the program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 60
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: NotEnoughData
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.7%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.7% of revenue deployed
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $190K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 3 of 5 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.