Success in Style
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 043592659
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Savage, MD, USA
- Phone
- 4435383843
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Employment Procurement Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,164,429
- Expenses
- $1,011,170
- Assets
- $454,846
- Liabilities
- $10,866
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JEANNETTE KENDALL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JEANNETTE KENDALL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $101,154 total reported compensation
- PAUL KENDALL (TREASURER/CHAIR): $16,975 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To assist disadvantaged individuals from diverse backgrounds who are unemployed or underemployed in finding meaningful work by providing interview appropriate clothing.
What it reported doing in 2024
The client consultation is the focus of the mission and every activity of sis ultimately works to make that possible. At every appointment clients receive a professional consultation fitting them with outfits that make them feel confident and reflect a positive professional image. They in turn carry this confidence into the interview process. Sis's clients receive the means to confidently approach the daunting interview process. Providing the means to present the best image during an interview is a vital piece of the puzzle for those in need of employment. Sis works with a myriad of social service agencies who refer clients to sis. These clients range from homeless transitional families to mid-career professionals who are unexpectedly laid off and find themselves economically needy of any age, race, sex, creed color, national origin, or sexual orientation. In addition sis serves clients who have developmental disabilities, mental health concerns, offender re-entry and substance abuse recovery. Sis provides services to four job corps sites in the baltimore Washington dc metro area, multi-service center in howard county, savage mill studio, arundel county court, soon the arundel county correctional institution. In all there are over 2000 clients served, although those numbers were reduced during the covid pandemic. Sis-on-the-go, a new program reaches approximately 500 to 700 disadvantaged people through social service agencies and other non-profit organizations. Expenses for all these activities include staff salaries, rent, outreach programs, supplies, sorting of clothing for all service sites, provision of other hard to fit clothing, and maintenance and build out of other necessary spaces.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 82% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 56
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 83%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.2%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.45; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.7%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.8% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 83% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $839K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $101K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.