Dress for Success Canada Foundation
Public foundation · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 775960289RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,754,987) as filed with the CRA.
Dress for Success Canada Foundation is a public foundation based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.7M in revenue and $1.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 93% from donations, 6% from government. In 2024, 7 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.1M.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 60% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 82% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 13 qualified donees totalling $1.3M in 2024, the largest being $144K to Dress for Success Toronto. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1M in 2020 to $1.7M in 2024.
In its own words
Dress for success empowers women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support professional attire and development tools to help women thrive in work and life. The dress for success canada foundation supports this work across dress for success locations coast to coast.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.7M | $1.8M | $328K | $67K | $1.3M | $668K |
| 2023 | $3.7M | $3.3M | $610K | $73K | $2.4M | $744K |
| 2022 | $2.8M | $2.7M | $156K | $53K | $2.3M | $368K |
| 2021 | $1.4M | $1.3M | $40K | $39K | $1.2M | $325K |
| 2020 | $1M | $902K | $179K | $35K | $612K | $232K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Public foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Other gifts$1,250,700
- Receipted donations$307,030
- Investment income$15,156
- From other charities$7,997
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.3M to 13 qualified donees:
- Dress for Success Toronto$144K
- Making Changes Employment Association of Alberta$120K
- Dress for Success Vancouver Society$113K
- Dress for Success Saskatoon Inc.$91K
- South Winnipeg Family Information Centre Inc.$91K
- Dress For Success Regina Inc.$90K
- Dress for Success Central Alberta Women's Centre$90K
- Dress for Success Montréal$90K
- Dress for Success Kingston$87K
- Dress for Success Ottawa National Capital Region$87K
- Dress for Success Kelowna Society$87K
- Dress for Success Halifax Society$87K
- Dress For Success Orillia and Barrie$85K
Received $1.1M from 7 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$369K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Dress for Success Canada Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 775960289RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.