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Top 25 Womens shelters based in Canada
RevenueBase identified 320 womens shelters headquartered in Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 6,240 professional contacts across them, including 2,132 with verified work emails. Montreal is the largest hub.
This list covers womens 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 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.
The 25 largest womens shelters based in Canada
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 390 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 324 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “YWCA Metro Vancouver is a registered charity, gender equity advocate, community service provider and social enterprise operator.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 316 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “YWCA Toronto is a leader and collaborator in the provision of feminist, intersectional and transformative shelter and housing, employment and training, leadership, and advocacy…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 260 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 207 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We stand with women and their families, providing integrated support that creates safety, builds confidence and reshapes what’s possible.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 126 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver (EFry) is a non-profit, community-based organization providing support to women, girls and children at risk, involved in or affected…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Our Mission We build economic security, promote wellness and create opportunities for women, girls, Two Spirit, and gender diverse people by providing a strong voice and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “YWCA Canada is the country’s oldest largest women's multi-service organization.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Nisa Foundation, a registered charity since 2019, was founded with the mission of providing culturally responsive support for women and girls facing life’s challenges.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 82 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Barbra Schlifer Clinic offers legal representation, professional counselling and multilingual interpretation to women who have experienced violence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sistering is a multi-service agency which offers practical and emotional support to women and trans people facing a variety of challenging life circumstances, including poverty…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Shelter Movers is a national, volunteer-powered charitable organization providing moving and storage services at no cost to individuals and families fleeing abuse.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 74 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “YWCA Regina has been serving women in our community since 1910.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Shelter Nova Scotia believes that everyone deserves a safe and affordable home.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The mission of the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre (DEWC) is to provide a safe, non-judgmental, low-barrier environment for women (cis, trans), two-spirit and gender diverse…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Chez Doris is a charitable organization for vulnerable women founded in 1977.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Halton Women’s Place provides a safe haven, information, and education to support a future without abuse for women and their children.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Crisis Shelter & Residence; Employment & Learning Centre; Child Development Centre; Fitness on 25th.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Yellow Brick House is a non-profit charitable organization serving abused women and their children in York Region.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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, 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: womens 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 womens shelters.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of womens shelters, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name womens 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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Womens shelters based in Canada at a glance
As of Sep 22, 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 320 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 womens 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 “womens 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 womens 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 womens 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, 2,132 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.
Womens shelters by metro
- Womens shelters in Montreal33
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 womens 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 womens shelters are there based in Canada?
RevenueBase identified 320 womens 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?
Atira Women's Resource Society, headquartered in Vancouver, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most womens shelters?
Montreal leads with 33 headquartered companies, followed by Toronto (23) and Vancouver (11).
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 2,132 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 320 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.