Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Emergency shelters worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,947 emergency shelters worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 40,642 professional contacts across them, including 14,473 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Los Angeles the largest hub.
This list covers emergency shelters worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026. Country and city lists for emergency shelters follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest emergency shelters worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 844 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At HELP USA, we work to ensure that everyone has a place to call home.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 682 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 574 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “DESC works to end the homelessness of vulnerable people, particularly those living with serious mental illnesses or substance use disorders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 513 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Breaking Ground’s success in ending homelessness is built on a housing model that serves individuals and families who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 451 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A New Leaf's mission is helping families, changing lives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 435 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Win is the largest provider of shelter and supportive housing for families experiencing homelessness in NYC.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 347 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LifeMoves is the largest and most effective nonprofit committed to ending the cycle of homelessness for families and individuals in San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 340 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fred Victor is a social service charitable organization that fosters long-lasting and positive change in the lives of homeless and low-income people living across Toronto.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 320 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our Mission The mission of WINGS Program, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 316 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For more than 75 years, Father Joe’s Villages has been a leader in serving individuals and families experiencing homelessness in San Diego.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 307 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our mission is to help families transition out of homelessness and poverty through a continuum of housing enriched with supportive services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 291 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “FrontLine Service, formerly Mental Health Services (MHS), is a first responder to individuals and families in our community who are struggling with homelessness, crises and trauma.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 282 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “A social services agency providing deeply affordable housing, emergency shelters and direct services to over children and adults each year.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 279 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco (ECS) helps homeless and very low-income people every day and every night obtain the housing, jobs, shelter, and essential services…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 277 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “San Diego Youth Services has improved the lives of more than homeless, runaway and vulnerable youth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 275 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “RainCity Housing provides shelter and supportive housing for hundreds of people in Metro Vancouver.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 270 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “HomeFirst ™ is a leading provider of services, shelter, and housing opportunities to the homeless and those at risk of homelessness in the Bay Area.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 262 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We envision a New York of thriving communities where everyone has a place to call home.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 260 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Trellis Society empowers people of all ages, backgrounds, and experiences to grow and flourish through emergency shelter, affordable housing, family and youth programming, therapy…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 246 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le Samusocial est un dispositif d’urgence sociale qui a pour mission d’intervenir auprès des personnes sans solution d’hébergement pour leur offrir une aide immédiate (action…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 242 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Safe Haven Foundation is dedicated to transforming lives and communities in the Chicagoland area.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 235 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Homes First develops and provides affordable, stable housing and support services to break the cycle of homelessness for people with the fewest housing options.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 235 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Plymouth Housing transforms lives by providing permanent, supportive homes to homeless people with few other options for housing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 234 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tenderloin Housing Clinic (THC) is a non-profit housing, support services, legal, and advocacy organization.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 226 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At the Calgary Drop-In Centre, we welcome adults at risk of or experiencing homelessness.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: emergency shelters. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names emergency shelters.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of emergency shelters, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name emergency shelters. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Emergency shelters worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among emergency shelters, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for emergency shelters are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “emergency shelters”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names emergency shelters), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among emergency shelters, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 14,473 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Emergency shelters by location
6 lists · largest firstEvery Emergency shelters list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names emergency shelters, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many emergency shelters are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,947 emergency shelters worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Help USA, headquartered in New York, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most emergency shelters?
The United States leads with 1,246 companies, followed by Canada (123) and the United Kingdom (110). Every emergency shelters list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most emergency shelters?
Los Angeles leads with 21 headquartered companies, followed by Atlanta (17) and New York (17).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 14,473 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,947 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.