Dress for Success Kingston
Charitable organization · Kingston, Ontario · BN 815015649RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($370,766) as filed with the CRA.
Dress for Success Kingston is a charitable organization based in Kingston, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $309K in revenue and $371K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 61% from donations, 10% from government, 18% from other charities. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $169K.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 47% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $773 in 2024, the largest being $773 to United Way of Kingston Frontenac Lennox & Addington. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $135K in 2020 to $309K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Dress for success kingston is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing support guidance and mentorship to women in need in the kingston and surrounding community. Our mission is to empower women by providing professional attire and a personal growth plan to help her thrive in her career and in life. We work to achieve our mission through our boutique where volunteers and staff sort donated clothing and help to dress women who are seeking to gain employment by providing work appropiate attire and through the success centre where we provide clients with ongoing career advice technolo…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $309K | $371K | $322K | $8,768 | $773 | $223K |
| 2023 | $288K | $259K | $214K | $4,272 | $2,290 | $285K |
| 2022 | $245K | $151K | $125K | $1,705 | — | $256K |
| 2021 | $35K | $11K | $7,203 | — | — | $162K |
| 2020 | $135K | $121K | $65K | $2,551 | — | $78K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $773 to 1 qualified donee:
Received $169K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$165K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Deanna Knight (director of finance); Leslie Langdon (chair); Tracy Ringrose (director of hr); Lindsay Duggan (director); Bonnie Henault (director); Terri McDade (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Dress for Success Kingston’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 815015649RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.