Dress for Success Toronto
Charitable organization · North York, Ontario · BN 889786216RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,167,986) as filed with the CRA.
Dress for Success Toronto is a charitable organization based in North York, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $897K in revenue and $1.2M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 40% from donations, 11% from other charities. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $364K.
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 73% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 16 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
Dress for success toronto : suiting program - provides job seeking women with professional attire for jobs interviews employment and training career servcies - provides ongoing job search readiness and employment skills programs to provide clients with tools education and resources to help accelerate their job search. Professional women's group - is a monthly forum of support to foster personal and professional development once clients are employed. Dress your best; provides suits and accessories to low income men for job interviews and employment. Dress your best clothing recycling program…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $897K | $1.2M | $1.1M | $15K | — | $825K |
| 2023 | $1.3M | $1.4M | $1.2M | $141K | — | $1.1M |
| 2022 | $920K | $829K | $723K | $57K | — | $1.1M |
| 2021 | $866K | $547K | $510K | $11K | — | $1M |
| 2020 | $690K | $193K | $448K | $5,111 | — | $727K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $364K from 15 charities:
- Dress for Success Canada Foundation$144K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$74K
- RBC Foundation$50K
- Mackenzie Investments Charitable Foundation$35K
- The KPMG Foundation/la Fondation KPMG$15K
- Honda Canada Foundation$15K
- RBC Foundation$12K
- The Goodman Family Foundation$5,000
- Toronto Foundation$5,000
- The Connor Clark & Lunn Foundation$5,000
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$2,500
- Canadahelps Canadon$1,617
- BenefAction Foundation$1,000
- Prime Quadrant Foundation$114
- Oakville Community Foundation$100
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions16
- Total compensation, all staff$858K
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 Toronto’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889786216RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.