Alberta · Registered charity
ALBERTA COUNCIL OF WOMEN'S SHELTERS
ALBERTA COUNCIL OF WOMEN'S SHELTERS (Alberta) receives grants from 45 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,549,110 to it, the largest being Women's Shelters Canada / Hébergement femmes Canada (C$397,500). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ALBERTA COUNCIL OF WOMEN'S SHELTERS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,748 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,748 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Edmonton Rotary Club Foundationlocal
- P.E.A.R.L. Foundationportfolio match
- Prairie Action Foundation Corporationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 62% · 2018 64% · 2019 63% · 2020 71% · 2021 74% · 2022 76% · 2023 70% · 2024 62%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
56% of ALBERTA COUNCIL OF WOMEN'S SHELTERS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (8% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 19 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose C$59k → C$385k.
From the CRA filings of ALBERTA COUNCIL OF WOMEN'S SHELTERS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ALBERTA COUNCIL OF WOMEN'S SHELTERS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ALBERTA COUNCIL OF WOMEN'S SHELTERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 39% · 2019 27% · 2020 25% · 2021 72% · 2022 46% · 2023 45% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
39% of ALBERTA COUNCIL OF WOMEN'S SHELTERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
ALBERTA COUNCIL OF WOMEN'S SHELTERS draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Alberta, across 6 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$60k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 regions is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 45 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Edmonton Rotary Club FoundationlocalAB · funds 6 organizations near you
- P.E.A.R.L. Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prairie Action Foundation Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Westmount Charter School Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Greene Family Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- TJX Canada Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Royal Lepage Shelter Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Silver Gummyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Trico Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Edmonton Civic Employees Charitable Assistance Fundshared funderslocalAB · backs 52 organizations that share your funders · funds 12 organizations near you
- Gordon & Diane Buchanan Family FoundationlocalAB · funds 8 organizations near you
- Cox Charitable FoundationlocalAB · funds 5 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government revenue ALBERTA COUNCIL OF WOMEN'S SHELTERS reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 62% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like ALBERTA COUNCIL OF WOMEN'S SHELTERS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every charity on the CRA register — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Alberta
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds ALBERTA COUNCIL OF WOMEN'S SHELTERS?
- ALBERTA COUNCIL OF WOMEN'S SHELTERS (Alberta) receives grants from 45 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,549,110 to it, the largest being Women's Shelters Canada / Hébergement femmes Canada (C$397,500). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALBERTA COUNCIL OF WOMEN'S SHELTERS have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 45 organizations giving C$1,549,110 in grants to ALBERTA COUNCIL OF WOMEN'S SHELTERS, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALBERTA COUNCIL OF WOMEN'S SHELTERS?
- Women's Shelters Canada / Hébergement femmes Canada is the largest funder on record, with C$397,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALBERTA COUNCIL OF WOMEN'S SHELTERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alberta.
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These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 45 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register