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DRESS FOR SUCCESS CINCINNATI

EIN 31-1640182 CINCINNATI, OH

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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.

  • 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.

  • Meggan Thompson

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $113,339
    From this org
    $113,339
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    36 + 4 related
  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

  • 4th Street Basement Boutique

    501(c)(3) · sale of gently used clothing · OH · controlled entity

Declared as related by

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.