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EDMONTON WOMEN'S SHELTER LTD.

EDMONTON WOMEN'S SHELTER LTD. (Alberta) receives grants from 94 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$4,823,065 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$1,834,426). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$5.1M
Revenue FY2024
94
Funders on record
C$4.8M
Grants received
C$5.3M
Net assets
57/94 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%

Against its field

EDMONTON WOMEN'S SHELTER LTD.'s funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−3% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom 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$4.3M) Expenses 100 (C$4.2M) Net assets 100 (C$3.4M)2018 Revenue 101 (C$4.4M) Expenses 110 (C$4.6M) Net assets 94 (C$3.2M)2019 Revenue 106 (C$4.6M) Expenses 115 (C$4.8M) Net assets 88 (C$3.0M)2020 Revenue 116 (C$5.0M) Expenses 114 (C$4.8M) Net assets 95 (C$3.2M)2021 Revenue 132 (C$5.7M) Expenses 106 (C$4.4M) Net assets 134 (C$4.5M)2022 Revenue 126 (C$5.5M) Expenses 119 (C$5.0M) Net assets 150 (C$5.0M)2023 Revenue 123 (C$5.4M) Expenses 120 (C$5.0M) Net assets 160 (C$5.4M)2024 Revenue 116 (C$5.1M) Expenses 124 (C$5.2M) Net assets 156 (C$5.3M)
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Revenue (116)Expenses (124)Net assets (156)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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 64% · 2018 73% · 2019 75% · 2020 68% · 2021 75% · 2022 72% · 2023 67% · 2024 69%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

79% of EDMONTON WOMEN'S SHELTER LTD.’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$171k
’17
−C$200k
’18
−C$206k
’19
C$249k
’20
C$1.3M
’21
C$526k
’22
C$337k
’23
−C$132k
’24
3.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 42 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose C$491k → C$870k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
Canadahelps Canadonunclassified
C$1.8M
Aqueduct Foundationunclassified
C$52k
PayPal Giving Fund Canadaunclassified
C$45k
The Chawkers foundationunclassified
C$32k
Atco Electric Epicunclassified
C$31k
BenefAction Foundationunclassified
C$28k
funders
42
32
40
37
36
35
35
32

From the CRA filings of EDMONTON WOMEN'S SHELTER LTD.’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 94 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

EDMONTON WOMEN'S SHELTER LTD. leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 61%; 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 EDMONTON WOMEN'S SHELTER LTD..

38%
largest funder
61%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 29% · 2019 35% · 2020 43% · 2021 29% · 2022 48% · 2023 39% — 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

47% of EDMONTON WOMEN'S SHELTER LTD.'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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

EDMONTON WOMEN'S SHELTER LTD. draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Alberta, across 6 regions in all.

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

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’23
Alberta out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$846k 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.

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 94 funders put you typical 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 EDMONTON WOMEN'S SHELTER LTD. reports

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

FY2024C$3.5M
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  • 69% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like EDMONTON WOMEN'S SHELTER LTD.

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

Women in Need Society of Calgary74%Camrose Women's Shelter Society73%Calgary Young Women's Christian Association73%Rowan House Society72%Indo-Canadian Women's Association of Edmonton71%The Central Alberta Women's Emergency Shelter Society71%Calgary Alpha House Society71%Cochrane Women's Emergency Shelter Society70%

Nationally

Women's Hostels Incorporated74%Women in Transition House Inc74%Women in Need Society of Calgary74%Camrose Women's Shelter Society73%Family Transition Place73%Women's Habitat of Etobicoke73%Help and Hope for Families Society73%Ernestine's Women's Shelter73%
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

65% of spending goes to programs.

Program 65%Management 26%Fundraising 9%

Questions and answers

Who funds EDMONTON WOMEN'S SHELTER LTD.?
EDMONTON WOMEN'S SHELTER LTD. (Alberta) receives grants from 94 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$4,823,065 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$1,834,426). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does EDMONTON WOMEN'S SHELTER LTD. have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 94 organizations giving C$4,823,065 in grants to EDMONTON WOMEN'S SHELTER LTD., 57 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EDMONTON WOMEN'S SHELTER LTD.?
CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$1,834,426 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EDMONTON WOMEN'S SHELTER LTD. find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alberta.

Play a game about who funds Edmonton Women's Shelter Ltd. →

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 94 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