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Top 25 Women's rights nonprofits based in Canada

RevenueBase identified 81 women's rights nonprofits headquartered in Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 1,329 professional contacts across them, including 361 with verified work emails. Toronto is the largest hub.

This list covers women's rights nonprofits 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 22, 2026.

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.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 22, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review
81Companies
1,329Contacts tracked
361Verified emails
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The 25 largest women's rights nonprofits based in Canada

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 81 women's rights nonprofits based in Canada, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 22, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to women's rights nonprofits: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Strong evidenceVancouver, BC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 22, 2026201-500390 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Our mission at Atira Women's Resource Society is twofold: to provide direct services to women and children fleeing violence, and to raise awareness of all forms of gendered…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
2Strong evidenceMontreal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 22, 202651-200103 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Since 1875, the Montreal Womens Y has contributed to preventing all forms of violence and improving the lives of women and girls by increasing their skills, self-esteem and…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
3Indirect evidenceToronto, CanadaHQ checked Sep 22, 202611-5081 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund is a youth-led feminist fund that mobilizes resources, funds and strengthens the participation and leadership of young feminist activists globally…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
4Partial evidenceBrampton, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 22, 202651-20061 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Mission: We empower women and girls through a trauma informed, inclusive, and gender responsive lens.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
5Strong evidenceToronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 22, 202611-5056 contacts →

Strong evidence

“The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) is a global, feminist, membership, movement-support organization.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
6Strong evidenceToronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 22, 202611-5046 contacts →

Strong evidence

“The Canadian Womens Foundation is a national leader in the movement for gender equality in Canada.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
7Partial evidenceMontréal, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 22, 202611-5046 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Le Centre des femmes de Montréal est un organisme sans but lucratif, dont la mission est d’aider les femmes à s’aider elles-mêmes en leur fournissant tous les outils dont elles…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
8Indirect evidenceQuébec, QC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 22, 202651-20045 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Depuis 1875, la YWCA Québec travaille pour et avec les femmes et les filles qu'elle accompagne fièrement vers le meilleur d'elles-mêmes.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
9Partial evidenceEdmonton, AB, CanadaHQ checked Sep 22, 202611-5044 contacts →

Partial evidence

“The Elizabeth Fry Society of Northern Alberta (formerly of Edmonton, rebranded in 2020) has a mission to advance the dignity and worth of all women and girls who are or may be at…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
10Strong evidenceToronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 22, 202611-5036 contacts →

Strong evidence

“The Womens Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) is a national charitable organization that advances gender equality through law.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
11Partial evidenceVancouver, BC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 22, 202611-5017 contacts →

Partial evidence

“West Coast LEAF is the first and only organization in BC dedicated to using the law as a strategy to work towards an equal and just society for all women and people who experience…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
12Strong evidenceNorth Vancouver, BC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 22, 20261-1012 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Since 1973, the North Shore Womens Centre has worked to improve the social, economic, legal and political status of women, and encouraged and supported self-empowerment by acting…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
13Strong evidenceVancouver, CanadaHQ checked Sep 22, 20261-1011 contacts →

Strong evidence

Women Transforming Cities is a nonprofit organization based in Vancouver, Canada that works to educate, promote awareness and take action on issues such as affordable housing…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
14Strong evidenceOttawa, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 22, 20261-1011 contacts →

Strong evidence

“NAWL works to achieve substantive equality and the realization of human rights for all women in Canada through legal education, research, strategic intervention, coalition work…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
15Strong evidenceToronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 22, 20261-1011 contacts →

Strong evidence

“The equality effect is a non-profit charity that uses international human rights law as a crowbar to pry open justice for women and girls around the world.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
16Strong evidenceSudbury, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 22, 20261-1011 contacts →

Strong evidence

“The Sudbury Women's Centre (SWC) is a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to supporting women, girls, trans, and non-binary individuals experiencing violence and other…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
17Indirect evidenceThe Peace Track Initiative Is Hosted At Ottawa University In The Human Rights Research And Education Center. Room 550, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 22, 202611-5011 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“The Peace Track Initiative (PTI) aims at localizing and feminizing the peace process through promoting inclusion and enhancing feminist knowledge leadership in the Middle East and…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
18Indirect evidenceToronto, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 22, 20261-1010 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“WomanACT has been providing planning and coordination in Toronto since 1991.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
19Strong evidenceYarmouth, NS, CanadaHQ checked Sep 22, 20261-1010 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Tri-County Women's Centre is a nonprofit organization based out of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
20Indirect evidenceWoodstock, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 22, 202611-509 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
21Indirect evidenceStrathroy, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 22, 202611-509 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
22Partial evidenceBrandon, MB, CanadaHQ checked Sep 22, 202611-507 contacts →

Partial evidence

“YWCA Westman Empowering Women, Strengthening Communities Together.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
23Indirect evidenceSudbury, ON, CanadaHQ checked Sep 22, 20261-106 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
24Partial evidenceYellowknife, NT, CanadaHQ checked Sep 22, 202651-2005 contacts →

Partial evidence

“The mission of the YWS is to- Support and assist women and their families in empowering themselves so that they can develop their goals, achieve wellness, enjoy equality and be…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
25Strong evidenceKamloops, BC, CanadaHQ checked Sep 22, 202611-505 contacts →

Strong evidence

“The Interior Women's Centre Society has set its vision on bringing back the Kamloops & Kelowna women's resource centres.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026

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Women's rights nonprofits based in Canada at a glance

As of Sep 22, 2026
27.2%Verified-email coverage
16.4Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
17.3%Largest-city concentration · Toronto
Sep 22, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
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11-50
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51-200
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201-500
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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 81 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 women's rights nonprofits, 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 “women's rights nonprofits”. 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 women's rights nonprofits), 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 women's rights nonprofits, 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, 361 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 22, 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 women's rights nonprofits, 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 women's rights nonprofits are there based in Canada?

RevenueBase identified 81 women's rights nonprofits 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?

Atira Women's Resource Society, headquartered in Vancouver, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most women's rights nonprofits?

Toronto leads with 14 headquartered companies, followed by Montreal (11) and Vancouver (7).

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 361 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 81 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 22, 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.