Ontario · Registered charity
ERNESTINE'S WOMEN'S SHELTER
ERNESTINE'S WOMEN'S SHELTER (Ontario) receives grants from 67 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$5,185,511 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER TORONTO (C$2,584,960). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ERNESTINE'S WOMEN'S SHELTER's funding base is broadening — from 17 funders to 30 as grant income climbed.
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.
- Shayona Charities Inc.local
- Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation - Canadaportfolio match
- Jeremy's Memorial Foundation Against Domestic Violenceportfolio 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 55% · 2018 58% · 2019 58% · 2020 60% · 2021 51% · 2022 54% · 2023 60% · 2024 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
37% of ERNESTINE'S WOMEN'S SHELTER’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. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose C$447k → C$842k.
From the CRA filings of ERNESTINE'S WOMEN'S SHELTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 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
ERNESTINE'S WOMEN'S SHELTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 78%; 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 ERNESTINE'S WOMEN'S SHELTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 81% · 2019 77% · 2020 53% · 2021 42% · 2022 46% · 2023 37% — 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
53% of ERNESTINE'S WOMEN'S SHELTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
92% of ERNESTINE'S WOMEN'S SHELTER's grant income comes from Ontario funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$13k 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.
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 67 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Shayona Charities Inc.localON · funds 3 organizations near you
- Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation - Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jeremy's Memorial Foundation Against Domestic Violenceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Shoebox Project for Shelters/Operation Boite a Chassures Pour Refugesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Catch the Fire KitchenerlocalON · funds 3 organizations near you
- Manitoba Association of Women's Shelters Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- TJX Canada Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Muriel McQueen Fergusson Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Toronto Apartment Association Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Catch the Fire WorldlocalON · funds 3 organizations near you
- Real Identity Discovery MinistrylocalON · funds 4 organizations near you
- Frederick and Douglas Dickson Memorial Foundationshared fundersON · backs 36 organizations that share your funders
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 ERNESTINE'S WOMEN'S SHELTER reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 53% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like ERNESTINE'S WOMEN'S SHELTER
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds ERNESTINE'S WOMEN'S SHELTER?
- ERNESTINE'S WOMEN'S SHELTER (Ontario) receives grants from 67 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$5,185,511 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER TORONTO (C$2,584,960). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ERNESTINE'S WOMEN'S SHELTER have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 67 organizations giving C$5,185,511 in grants to ERNESTINE'S WOMEN'S SHELTER, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ERNESTINE'S WOMEN'S SHELTER?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER TORONTO is the largest funder on record, with C$2,584,960 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ERNESTINE'S WOMEN'S SHELTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ontario.
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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 67 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