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Ottawa, ON · Charitable organization

Women's Shelters Canada / Hébergement femmes Canada

Knowledge Exchange: We facilitate the creation and implementation of new ideas and practices to meet the needs of shelters and the women and children they serve.

C$797k
Granted FY2024still arriving
69
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
Regions reached
C$63k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k46 grants · C$202k
  • C$10k–50k22 grants · C$532k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$63k
C$5,000
Median grant
12
Regions reached
C$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FEMMES AUTOCHTONES DU QUÉBECC$63,000
ARMAGH HOUSEC$30,000
HAIDA GWAII SOCIETY FOR COMMUNC$30,000
REGINA TRANSITION HOUSE INC.C$27,000
LA DAUPHINELLEC$25,000
REDWOOD SHELTERC$25,000
AUBERGE SHALOM POUR FEMMESC$25,000
WOMEN'S RESOURCES OF KAWARTHA LAKESC$25,000
WOMEN'S INTERVAL HOME OF SARNIA-LAMBTON INC.C$25,000
AWO TAAN HEALING LODGE SOCIETYC$25,000
CAPE BRETON TRANSITION HOUSE ASSOCIATIONC$25,000
FEAR IS NOT LOVE SOCIETYC$25,000
WOMEN IN CRISIS ALGOMA INC.C$25,000
YWCA YELLOWKNIFEC$25,000
LIBERTY LANE INC.C$25,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Which regions your grants reach

Ontario
C$40M
British Columbia
C$28M
Alberta
C$16M
New Brunswick
C$6.6M
Manitoba
C$5.6M
Nova Scotia
C$5.2M
Saskatchewan
C$4.6M
Northwest Territories
C$2.0M
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$1.9M
Yukon
C$1.9M
Nunavut
C$645k
Quebec
C$296k
Prince Edward Island
C$263k

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$111M · 274 repeat orgsC$6.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

274 repeat relationships — 59 still active in FY2024, 215 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

274
64

Total granted

C$111M
C$6.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+18%

Still filing today

99%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$174k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.”

Backed again, and grew

  • AW
    Atira Womens Resource Society
    3× · 2021–2023 · C$1.1M · revenue +30%
  • SH
    Sakeenah Homes
    3× · 2021–2023 · C$963k · revenue +95%
  • YN
    YWCA NWT
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$924k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • IF
    Imani Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · C$332k
  • GF
    Ganohkwasra Family Assault Sup
    one grant, 2023 · C$302k
  • TS
    TFHQ Second Stage shelter
    one grant, 2023 · C$301k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matches that aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Yorktown Shelter for Women

Yorktown Shelter for Women (YSW) provides a safe and secure haven for women and their children fleeing an abusive relationship. The shelter is staffed 24 hours a day by a multilingual and multicultural team, who are committed to the…

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2
Maggie's Resource Centre Safe Homes Program

Provide counselling advocacy placement court support information transportation and crisis intervention for women who are abused

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3
Surrey Women's Centre Society

Offers a range of low barrier drop in resources including crisis court counselling advocacy and health services for individuals who have experienced gender-based violence. Accompaniment to hospital police and court. Specialized co-location…

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4
100 Mile House & District Women's Centre Society

Stop the Violance Safe House Counselling Services Drop In Centre for resources including computer services clothing food and social connections.

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5
Tfhq Safe Shelter Incorporated

Provide and maintain an emergency shelter for women/children who are victims of abuse. provide ongoing counselling services to women adn children of first nation ancestry.

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6
Osborne House Inc.

Support services include 24 hour crisis line counselling children's counselling and follow up services for women and children that have been abused by an intimate partner.

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7
Chestermere Women's Crisis Society

Basic Needs Support Court Support Advocacy Housing Support Emergency Accommodation

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8
La Ronge Native Women's Council Inc

Women's shelter sexual assault program

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9
Indigenous Women's Healing Centre Inc.

Transitional housing education programs (self esteem anger management relapse prevention healthy relationship cultural awareness parenting and life skills grief and loss etc)

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10
Shelter Movers

Shelter movers provides free moving and storage services to women and children feeling abuse.

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11
New Oportunities for Women (Now) Canada Society

Now canada society operates to provide programs services and ongoing support to women youth and children who have experienced addictions mental health challenges and have suffered from abuse. the society also provides emergency shelter as…

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12
Sistering-a Woman's Place

Two drop in centers for marginalized and precariously housed women. services offered include harm reduction kitchen spun studio and housing supports

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Transition Place and the most unlike its peers is Anduhyaun Inc.. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

320 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own CRA returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 320 of the 346 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

35
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
61
Early backer (in before they grew)
317/320
Grantees still filing
248/320
Grew since you first funded

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%C$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNational Zakat Foundation — C$1,776,877 over 3y, 13% of budgetAtira Womens Resource Society — C$1,058,677 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSakeenah Homes — C$962,677 over 3y, 17% of budgetYWCA NWT — C$924,002 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetProject Hostel o/a Yellow Bric — C$880,677 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetAtlohsa Native Family Healing Services — C$797,546 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetYukon Womens Transition Home — C$797,219 over 4y, 16% of budgetFamily Support Centre/Safe Home Network — C$793,677 over 4y, 24% of budgetAboriginal Mother Centre Society — C$788,677 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetSara for Women (Women's Resource Centre of the Fraser Valley — C$782,821 over 2y, 12% of budgetTimmins & Area Women in Crisis — C$779,002 over 3y, 24% of budgetWomen's Crisis Services of Waterloo Region — C$737,677 over 4y, 10% of budgetLennox and Addington Interval — C$734,806 over 3y, 24% of budgetYWCA Toronto — C$730,677 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetYWCA Hamilton — C$730,677 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetAnn Davis Transition Society — C$726,922 over 3y, 10% of budgetWaypoints Community Services A — C$726,668 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetYoung Womens Christian Assoc. — C$719,270 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetMedicine Hat Womens Shelter S — C$718,677 over 3y, 16% of budgetMikmaw Native Friendship Cent — C$717,982 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetCalgary Young Womens Christian — C$712,810 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetPhoenix Transition Society — C$708,064 over 3y, 18% of budgetElliot Lake Women's Group Inc. — C$707,866 over 3y, 22% of budgetLloydminster Interval Home — C$702,476 over 4y, 14% of budgetIshtar Womens Resource Societ — C$686,425 over 3y, 15% of budgetInterim Place — C$675,866 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetDr. Margaret Savage Crisis Centre — C$659,677 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetAwo Taan Healing Lodge Society — C$658,771 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetHamilton-Wentworth Chapter Of Native Women Incorporated — C$657,777 over 3y, 11% of budgetThree Oaks — C$657,735 over 3y, 17% of budgetFundy Region Transition House — C$653,921 over 3y, 60% of budgetWomens Hostels Inc — C$648,454 over 3y, 13% of budgetYWCA Aggvik Nunavut — C$644,938 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetCrossroads for Women Inc. / Carrefour pour femmes Inc. — C$622,677 over 3y, 21% of budgetDixon Transition House Society — C$621,677 over 3y, 19% of budgetHearst Kapuskasing Smooth Rock Falls Counselling Services — C$620,677 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetGov Coun Salvation Army in Cda — C$620,118 over 3y, 63% of budgetOptions Community Services Soc — C$619,755 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNorth East Outreach & Support — C$617,883 over 3y, 15% of budgetCatholic Social Services — C$617,450 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCape Breton Transition House Association — C$615,205 over 4y, 26% of budgetHelp & Hope for Families Socie — C$592,177 over 3y, 25% of budgetW.I.N.G.S. Fellowship Ministri — C$587,647 over 4y, 11% of budgetL'Escale Madavic Inc. — C$575,627 over 2y, 42% of budgetArchway Society for Domestic Peace — C$545,423 over 3y, 12% of budgetRobson Valley Community Servic — C$540,676 over 4y, 18% of budgetLanark County Interval House — C$539,291 over 3y, 14% of budgetKamloops & District Elizabeth Fry Society — C$537,277 over 4y, 12% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Royal Lepage Shelter …Canadian Women's Foun…Shoppers Foundation f…Mary Kay Ash Charitab…Jeremy's Memorial Fou…Unifor Social Justice…Fondation RONAOntario Realtors Care…TJX Canada FoundationThe Federation of Com…Manitoba Association …The Home Depot Canada…
Royal Lepage Shelter FoundationON87.1× affinity140 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Royal Lepage Shelter Foundation · Canadian Women's Foundation / Fondation Canadienne Des Femmes · Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health Fondation Pharmaprixpour la Santé des Femmes · Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation - Canada · Jeremy's Memorial Foundation Against Domestic Violence · Unifor Social Justice Fund / le Fonds de Justice Sociale D'Unifor · Fondation RONA · Ontario Realtors Care Foundation · TJX Canada Foundation · The Federation of Community Social Services Society of British Columbia · Manitoba Association of Women's Shelters Inc. · The Home Depot Canada Foundation Fondation Home Depot Canada

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from the Canada Revenue Agency’s published T3010 data — your own annual information return and the multi-year returns of the 346 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year) — each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program description on its T3010; we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without a BN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your T3010 annual information return for the fiscal period ending 2024-03-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under organizations relieving poverty.

Source object 840989933:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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