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DAWN HOUSE SERVICES AND HOUSING FOR WOMEN INC.

DAWN HOUSE SERVICES AND HOUSING FOR WOMEN INC. (Ontario) receives grants from 42 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$667,140 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF KINGSTON, FRONTENAC, LENNOX & ADDINGTON (C$220,412). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$1.4M
Revenue FY2024
42
Funders on record
C$667k
Grants received
C$949k
Net assets
22/42 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 40%

Against its field

DAWN HOUSE SERVICES AND HOUSING FOR WOMEN INC. has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,748 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−11% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)41% · top quartile

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 (C$124k) Expenses 100 (C$235k) Net assets 100 (C$452k)2018 Revenue 382 (C$473k) Expenses 156 (C$366k) Net assets 123 (C$557k)2019 Revenue 318 (C$393k) Expenses 144 (C$338k) Net assets 135 (C$612k)2020 Revenue 289 (C$357k) Expenses 164 (C$386k) Net assets 129 (C$584k)2021 Revenue 408 (C$505k) Expenses 158 (C$370k) Net assets 159 (C$719k)2022 Revenue 431 (C$534k) Expenses 224 (C$526k) Net assets 161 (C$727k)2023 Revenue 1299 (C$1.6M) Expenses 530 (C$1.2M) Net assets 241 (C$1.1M)2024 Revenue 1111 (C$1.4M) Expenses 649 (C$1.5M) Net assets 210 (C$949k)
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Revenue (1111)Expenses (649)Net assets (210)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 14% · 2018 41% · 2019 37% · 2020 28% · 2021 1% · 2022 21% · 2023 62% · 2024 67%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

51% of DAWN HOUSE SERVICES AND HOUSING FOR WOMEN INC.’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (8% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,313 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−C$111k
’17
C$107k
’18
C$55k
’19
−C$28k
’20
C$135k
’21
C$8k
’22
C$364k
’23
−C$147k
’24
2.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose C$22k → C$129k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
Canadahelps Canadonunclassified
C$219k
Gill Ratcliffe Foundationunclassified
C$49k
BenefAction Foundationunclassified
C$10k
Gay Lea Foundationunclassified
C$7k
Crossroads United Churchunclassified
C$4k
Trinity United Churchunclassified
C$2k
Chalmers United Churchunclassified
C$2k
Fondation RONAunclassified
C$1k
Burridge United Churchunclassified
C$700
funders
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12
16
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21
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17
12

From the CRA filings of DAWN HOUSE SERVICES AND HOUSING FOR WOMEN INC.’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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

DAWN HOUSE SERVICES AND HOUSING FOR WOMEN INC. leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 DAWN HOUSE SERVICES AND HOUSING FOR WOMEN INC..

33%
largest funder
73%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 46% · 2019 35% · 2020 69% · 2021 39% · 2022 46% · 2023 56% — diversifying over time.

“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

57% of DAWN HOUSE SERVICES AND HOUSING FOR WOMEN INC.'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

95% of DAWN HOUSE SERVICES AND HOUSING FOR WOMEN INC.'s grant income comes from Ontario funders.

In-province vs out-of-province, by year

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Ontario out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$38k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 region 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.

03Its place in the field

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 42 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 DAWN HOUSE SERVICES AND HOUSING FOR WOMEN INC. reports

Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.

FY2024C$917k
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  • 67% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like DAWN HOUSE SERVICES AND HOUSING FOR WOMEN INC.

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 Ontario

Women's Hostels Incorporated82%New Starts for Women Inc.77%Harmony House Shelter77%Sedna Women's Shelter & Support Services Inc.75%Family Transition Place75%Pauline's Place Non-Profit Homes Inc75%Ernestine's Women's Shelter75%First Step Women's Shelter74%

Nationally

Women's Hostels Incorporated82%Fresh Start Services for Women Inc.79%Association Advocating for Women and Community79%New Starts for Women Inc.77%Harmony House Shelter77%Women in Transition House Inc77%Dawn to Dawn - Action on Homelessness Society77%Rowan House Society76%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 8%Fundraising 1%

Governance

7
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds DAWN HOUSE SERVICES AND HOUSING FOR WOMEN INC.?
DAWN HOUSE SERVICES AND HOUSING FOR WOMEN INC. (Ontario) receives grants from 42 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$667,140 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF KINGSTON, FRONTENAC, LENNOX & ADDINGTON (C$220,412). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DAWN HOUSE SERVICES AND HOUSING FOR WOMEN INC. have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 42 organizations giving C$667,140 in grants to DAWN HOUSE SERVICES AND HOUSING FOR WOMEN INC., 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DAWN HOUSE SERVICES AND HOUSING FOR WOMEN INC.?
UNITED WAY OF KINGSTON, FRONTENAC, LENNOX & ADDINGTON is the largest funder on record, with C$220,412 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DAWN HOUSE SERVICES AND HOUSING FOR WOMEN INC. find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ontario.

Play a game about who funds Dawn House Services and Housing for Women →

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 42 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