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Top 25 Emergency shelters based in Canada
RevenueBase identified 123 emergency shelters headquartered in Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 4,125 professional contacts across them, including 1,550 with verified work emails. Toronto is the largest hub.
This list covers emergency shelters headquartered in Canada, 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.
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The 25 largest emergency shelters based in Canada
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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. | |||||
| 2 | 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. | |||||
| 3 | 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. | |||||
| 4 | 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. | |||||
| 5 | 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. | |||||
| 6 | 172 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1983, Shepherds of Good Hope has been making our community a better place for all.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 122 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Community Builders is a Vancouver-based non-profit dedicated to ending homelessness through a housing-first approach.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 116 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since 1906, The Ottawa Mission has been serving the homeless, the hungry and the lost by providing food, clothing, shelter and skills.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For more than 90 years, The Link: Youth and Family Supports has helped youth & families on a journey to healing, hope & better lives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 99 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Blue Door is a nonprofit organization management company based out of Canada.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1997, Inn from the Cold has supported families in finding stability during times of crisis.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 80 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Choices for Youth is a community-based, not-for-profit organization dedicated to serving homeless and at-risk youth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Our Place, we walk alongside people through every step-building trust, offering care, and creating pathways from crisis to stability.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Shelter Nova Scotia believes that everyone deserves a safe and affordable home.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cornerstone is here for the almost women who are homeless or are at risk of being homeless in our nation’s capital, each and every year.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Our mission is to offer pathways for women experiencing or at risk of homelessness, through a variety of integrated services: Emergency Shelter, Supportive Housing, Residential…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pacifica Housing’s mission is to be a leading innovative provider of affordable homes and support services that contribute to the independence of individuals and families.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Surrey Urban Mission Society (SUMS) is a non-profit shelter operator and meal provider located in Whalley, British Columbia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Adsum shelters and houses as many as 170 people each day and more than 400 persons in a year.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our Vision: Ending family homelessness one family at a time.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sakeenah runs transitional shelters, conducts remote casework, and provides holistic services to all of our residents and clients so that they can get immediate assistance and be…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Harvest House Atlantic is more than an Emergency Shelter.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Stepping Stone helps individuals and families experiencing homelessness step forward on a path toward securing permanent housing in Guelph-Wellington through housing focused…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Women’s Crisis Services of Waterloo Region (WCSWR) empowers and supports women* and children to move beyond violence by providing safe shelter, education, transitional housing and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since 1986, Youth Without Shelter (YWS) has grown from a grassroots initiative with just 22 beds into a full continuum of care: redefining, reshaping, and reimagining the shelter…” 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 based in Canada at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Canada, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Canada, over 123 companies.
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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Canada 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. Companies headquartered outside Canada are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- 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, 1,550 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.
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 based in Canada?
RevenueBase identified 123 emergency shelters headquartered in Canada 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?
Fred Victor, headquartered in Toronto, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most emergency shelters?
Toronto leads with 14 headquartered companies, followed by Montreal (7) and Calgary (6).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
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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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About this data
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.