Dress for Success Vancouver Society
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 870628229RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($986,531) as filed with the CRA.
Dress for Success Vancouver Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $854K in revenue and $987K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 53% from donations, 31% from other charities. In 2024, 17 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $272K.
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 14% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 76% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Dress for Success Vancouver empowers women into good jobs financial independence and personal success. We opened our doors 25 years ago with a mission to empower women into the workforce by helping them make a great first impression through professional attire. Today we recognize that true economic empowerment requires so much more. To help women and gender-diverse individuals realize their highest potential we need to invest in a continuum of support that includes pre-employment and job-retention training mentorship professional networks and a community of support. Our wrap-around profes…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $854K | $987K | $577K | $153K | — | $183K |
| 2023 | $1M | $936K | $429K | $167K | — | $312K |
| 2022 | $295K | $375K | $253K | $27K | — | $238K |
| 2021 | $874K | $811K | $547K | $105K | — | $324K |
| 2020 | $714K | $655K | $456K | $33K | — | $261K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $272K from 17 charities:
- Dress for Success Canada Foundation$113K
- Surreycares Community Foundation$45K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$31K
- Cause We Care Foundation$25K
- Vancouver Foundation$15K
- RBC Foundation$15K
- Canadahelps Canadon$7,570
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$5,000
- Canada Gives$4,000
- RBC Foundation$2,500
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$2,500
- Tangye Foundation$2,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$2,000
- GivingForce Foundation Canada$1,200
- Aqueduct Foundation$1,000
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$225
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$99
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$629K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Monique Badun (director); Patricia Chew (director); Lucy Schilling (director); Isabelle Godsy (secretary); Elaine Williamson (director); Lorelle Gilpin (director); Melanie Bradley (co-chair); Shannon Taylor (co-chair); Sophia Tsui (treasurer); Rhonda Dyce (director); Heather Alekson (director); Mackenzie Jones (junior board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Dress for Success Vancouver Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 870628229RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.