Ontario · Registered charity
EMPOWERMENT THROUGH ACHIEVEMENT VAUGHAN WOMEN'S SHELTER
EMPOWERMENT THROUGH ACHIEVEMENT VAUGHAN WOMEN'S SHELTER (Ontario) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$11,578 to it, the largest being THE SAM SORBARA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (C$7,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
EMPOWERMENT THROUGH ACHIEVEMENT VAUGHAN WOMEN'S SHELTER's revenue fell 100% between 2017 and 2019.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,687 community resource nonprofits under $100k, FY2019
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.
- Women's Shelters Canada / Hébergement femmes Canadashared fundersportfolio match
- Royal Lepage Shelter Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation - Canadashared fundersportfolio 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.
0% of EMPOWERMENT THROUGH ACHIEVEMENT VAUGHAN WOMEN'S SHELTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell C$9k → C$12.
From the CRA filings of EMPOWERMENT THROUGH ACHIEVEMENT VAUGHAN WOMEN'S SHELTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
EMPOWERMENT THROUGH ACHIEVEMENT VAUGHAN WOMEN'S SHELTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 EMPOWERMENT THROUGH ACHIEVEMENT VAUGHAN WOMEN'S SHELTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of EMPOWERMENT THROUGH ACHIEVEMENT VAUGHAN 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. 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.
- Women's Shelters Canada / Hébergement femmes Canadashared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 109 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Royal Lepage Shelter Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 81 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation - Canadashared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 27 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health Fondation Pharmaprixpour la Santé des Femmesshared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 168 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Sayal Charitable FoundationlocalON · funds 4 organizations near you
- Manitoba Association of Women's Shelters Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- TJX Canada Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Shoebox Project for Shelters/Operation Boite a Chassures Pour Refugesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jeremy's Memorial Foundation Against Domestic Violenceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fondation RONAportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grey Birch Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Troop Impact Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like EMPOWERMENT THROUGH ACHIEVEMENT VAUGHAN 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.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds EMPOWERMENT THROUGH ACHIEVEMENT VAUGHAN WOMEN'S SHELTER?
- EMPOWERMENT THROUGH ACHIEVEMENT VAUGHAN WOMEN'S SHELTER (Ontario) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$11,578 to it, the largest being THE SAM SORBARA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (C$7,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EMPOWERMENT THROUGH ACHIEVEMENT VAUGHAN WOMEN'S SHELTER have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 4 organizations giving C$11,578 in grants to EMPOWERMENT THROUGH ACHIEVEMENT VAUGHAN WOMEN'S SHELTER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EMPOWERMENT THROUGH ACHIEVEMENT VAUGHAN WOMEN'S SHELTER?
- THE SAM SORBARA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EMPOWERMENT THROUGH ACHIEVEMENT VAUGHAN WOMEN'S SHELTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ontario.
These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), and the filings of 4 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