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Registered — Mont-royal, QC — Charitable Organization
Scores: Legitimacy 100/100 · Effectiveness 87/100
Financials: Revenue $2,008,196 · Expenditures $2,053,889
The Shield of Athena Family Services is a 33-year-old Montreal-area charity delivering multilingual domestic violence and family violence support services to ethnic communities, operating out of Mont-Royal with a $2.01M FY2025 budget and an exceptional 95.2% program ratio. Widely known as one of Quebec's pioneering ethnocultural-specific family violence organizations, Shield of Athena provides crisis intervention, emergency shelter support, and long-term counselling in numerous languages to women and children whose cultural, linguistic, or immigration circumstances make mainstream services difficult to access. Its 73% compensation ratio reflects the staffing-intensive nature of multilingual frontline crisis services.
Our Verdict: Shield of Athena is a 33-year-old Montreal charity delivering multilingual family violence support to ethnocultural communities with exceptional 95.2% program efficiency, zero administrative overhead, and 12.4 months of reserves — a strong and purpose-built operator in a difficult service category.