- Revenue 2025
- $1,159,448
- Expenses 2025
- $1,506,034
Program services were 78.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- J20
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 4623 WESLEY AVE STE H
These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).
Mission and programs · 2025
Mission
The Mission of Dress for Success Cincinnati is to help unemployed women with the resources they need in their journeys toward economic mobility.
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Dress for Success Cincinnati (DFSC) offers a time-tested, successful program that can be adapted and adjusted as the job market evolves. Our ultimate goal is for women and those who identify as women to achieve levels of economic self-sufficiency regardless of race, upbringing or where they live. Clients are referred by a diverse group of non-profit organizations and government agencies, including homeless shelters, immigration services, job training programs, education institutions and domestic violence shelters; other women reach out to us directly to request services. In addition to our signature styling program, DFSC offers a full spectrum of workforce development and career support programs through its career center and thriving services programs.Through our Thriving Services, we walk alongside you as you continue to grow, achieve, and thrive. When a woman thrives, her family, workplace, and community thrive with her. Our programs are designed to provide ongoing support, tools, and community you need to turn opportunity into lasting success. We do this through1:1 coaching where women receive personalized support from expert coaches who will help you set meaningful goals, stay focused, and build the future you envision.Womens Circles that allow women to connect with a powerful network in peer groups that foster community, support, and shared growthbecause no one succeeds alone.Career Services offers expert guidance and strategic resources to help women navigate every step of their professional journey through our Career Development Program. This program is designed to set career goals and build confidence in the job search. We also offer empowering events to help women inspired and connected through regular events that support both personal and professional goals to build a network, confidence, and future.
Expenses $1,179,663
As filed on the 2025 return.
Officers and directors · 2025
As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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Meggan Thompson
CEO
- Total calculated
- $113,339
- From this org
- $113,339
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 36 + 4 related
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Margo Brandenburg
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Kiley Bizzle-Brown
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Garri Davis
Chairman & Past
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2 + 2 related
-
Diana Cheshire
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Travina Adams
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Sowmya Aggarwal
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2 + 2 related
-
Jessica Bacher
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Melissa Bertke
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Meredith Blum
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Rene Cheatham
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Xaviera Edwards
Chairman
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2 + 2 related
-
Jaci Overman
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2 + 2 related
-
Amanda van Rooyen exited 1225
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Karen McDaniel
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Jennifer Wasco
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Kathleen Armstrong
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Israel Bonnell
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Marie Boyle
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Ron Hitzler
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2 + 2 related
-
Emily Keller
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Lisa Massa exited 325
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Carolyn Gorman
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Lali Minocha exited 325
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Jody Yetzer
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
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2025
- Revenue
- $1,159,448
- Expenses
- $1,506,034
- Contributions
- $942,622
- Grants paid
- $172,106
-
2024
- Revenue
- $1,327,325
- Expenses
- $1,556,226
- Contributions
- $934,192
- Grants paid
- $241,970
-
2023
- Revenue
- $1,223,408
- Expenses
- $1,271,730
- Contributions
- $862,636
- Grants paid
- $122,715
-
2022
- Revenue
- $889,951
- Expenses
- $1,125,543
- Contributions
- $646,631
- Grants paid
- $125,556
The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.
Other returns filed
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,572,595
- Expenses
- $969,914
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,837,765
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,177,611
- Expenses
- $583,546
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,256,865
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $778,196
- Expenses
- $648,996
- Assets (EOY)
- $644,112
-
2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $667,022
- Expenses
- $678,616
- Assets (EOY)
- $530,266
-
2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $765,573
- Expenses
- $620,153
- Assets (EOY)
- $558,779
-
2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $633,670
- Expenses
- $668,060
- Assets (EOY)
- $402,877
-
2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $691,731
- Expenses
- $728,693
- Assets (EOY)
- $432,316
-
2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $572,166
- Expenses
- $861,908
- Assets (EOY)
- $464,977
-
2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $678,760
- Expenses
- $858,544
- Assets (EOY)
- $678,785
-
2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $786,648
- Assets (EOY)
- $834,994
Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.
Grants made
No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.
Grants received
-
$96,512
2024 PROGRAMATIC SUPPORT
-
$80,000
2025 Support for DFS Cincinnati
-
$65,100
2023 PROGRAMATIC SUPPORT
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DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$57,600
2024 HUMAN SERVICES
-
$48,000
2022 Support for DFS Cincinnati
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$44,649
2023 SUPPORT OF MEMBER ORGANIZATION
-
$43,706
2025 SUPPORT OF MEMBER ORGANIZATION
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UNITED WAY OF GREATER CINCINNATI
$41,000
2022 Program Operating Cost
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$40,650
2022 GENERAL PURPOSE
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$36,554
2024 SUPPORT OF MEMBER ORGANIZATION
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Related organizations
From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.
Declared on its 2025 return
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4th Street Basement Boutique
501(c)(3) · sale of gently used clothing · OH · controlled entity
Declared as related by
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On its 2025 return
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.
Publication 78
Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.
These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.
What this page reflects
The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.