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Registered charity

The Stratford Arts Foundation

Legal name on the register: THE STRATFORD ARTS FOUNDATION

CA-E-HTCR-1DH5ActiveCanada (federal)3 independent sources
$770KRevenue reported
$203KPublic money on record
15On the board
9Organisations connected
3Independent publishers
86/100Evidence depth
October 24, 2026Latest source capture
On the record
Identifier
CA-E-HTCR-1DH5
Address
245 Downie St, STRATFORD, ON, N5A 1X5
Earliest record
May 1, 2014
Also known as
Stratford Summer Music
Identifiers held
Charity registration
878197417RR0001
Business number
878197417
Corporation number
3833356
Who controls this corporation. Federal corporations must file their Individuals with Significant Control with Corporations Canada. That register is not redistributed here — it can only be searched by corporation name or number, by design, so it cannot become a lookup by a person’s name. Search it directly for corporation number 3833356: Corporations Canada — federal corporation search.
Evidence depth
86/100
Deep record

This scores the depth of the public evidence assembled here. It does not score the organisation’s quality, reputation, solvency or risk. The formula is fixed and reproducible. See the formula.

Identityregistrations and identifiers
Operationsmunicipal licences
Filed figuresfinancials or workforce
Public moneycontracts or grants
Relationshipsfiled board or organisation links
Qualificationsstanding offers or supply arrangements
Public activitypermits and recorded work
Regulatorydecided findings
Dated historyevents with effective dates

Additional graph evidence outside the score: 9 organisation connections.

Public footprint · version 1

Where this organisation appears in public records

Eight independent dimensions describe the size and shape of the evidence. They are deliberately not added into one company score: a licence, a grant, a director filing and a court finding mean different things.

Footprint is not performance.

A larger bar means more public records of that kind. It does not mean better, worse, safer, larger, more profitable or more reputable.

Identityregistries, identifiers and corroboration
100
Operationslicences and operating places
0
Filed disclosurepublic financials and workforce
60
Public moneycontracts, grants and contribution records
43
Public activitypermits and recorded work
0
Relationshipsfiled board and identifier-linked organisations
74
Regulatorydecided public findings
0
Historydated span and recorded events
73

Each dimension uses fixed, logarithmic caps so one dataset with thousands of repeated rows cannot drown out every other fact. Read the formula and limits.

Registrations
RegistrarInstrumentNumberRegisteredStatus
Canada Revenue AgencyRegistered charity878197417RR0001—Registered
Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada)Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act3833356May 1, 2014Active
Board and officers on record (15)
NamePositionServing sinceStatus
Michael LutzmannDIRECTORSeptember 11, 2024current
Monique HancockDIRECTORMarch 6, 2024current
Andrew HiltonDIRECTORMarch 6, 2024current
Martin RitsmaDIRECTORDecember 1, 2023current
Robert LemonSECRETARY/TREASURERMarch 8, 2023current
Barbara SmithVICE-CHAIRMarch 8, 2023current
Taylor BriscoeDIRECTORDecember 1, 2022current
Diane WolfendenDIRECTORMarch 10, 2022current
Helen FriedmanDIRECTORMarch 11, 2021current
Andrea FeddemaDIRECTORMarch 12, 2020current
Jessica LeneyDIRECTORSeptember 9, 2018current
Jeremy WrefordCHAIRMarch 8, 2018current
Jean Anne McleodDIIRECTORMarch 9, 2017current
Angela ParkDIRECTORMarch 12, 2020ended January 24, 2024
Doug RothSECRETARY/TREASURERMarch 8, 2018ended March 6, 2024

Filed by the charity itself with the Canada Revenue Agency, under the Open Government Licence. This is the narrowest slate the source publishes — name, position, and tenure only; no address, phone, or email exists in the file to withhold. Why this is published and directors’ home addresses never are.

Organisations sharing a filed director name (9)

Every one of these rests on a single name in common, which is the weakest form this evidence takes — read them as leads, not findings.

OrganisationKindNames in common
Facile Futures INC.
CA-E-N9RR-3S95
Registered charity1
Kitchener-conestoga Rotary Club Community Aid Fund
CA-E-16PC-C205
Registered charity1
St. Jacobs Mennonite Church
CA-E-C5BH-778A
Registered charity1
Stratford And District Agricultural Society
CA-E-ZM16-RQY2
Registered charity1
Stratford Shakespearean Festival Of Canada
CA-E-36JK-GKFF
Registered charity1
The Iris Foundation For Education
CA-E-EF6T-87K5
Registered charity1
The Perth County Advisory Group For Family Services
CA-E-XMVD-266E
Registered charity1
The Royal School Of Church Music Niagara And Huron Branch
CA-E-0NK5-0VB3
Registered charity1
University Of British Columbia
CA-E-W87A-DW0C
Registered charity1
One name in common is a lead. Two is a link. These come from the director names each organisation filed with the Canada Revenue Agency, matched exactly as filed, and two people can share a name — across the whole corpus 95% of these rest on a single name, so a single match is genuinely weak evidence and is presented as such rather than dressed up. Two of the same names on the same pair of boards is a different matter: coincidence stops being a plausible explanation. A name appearing on more than eight boards is discarded outright as a probable collision.

The link is between organisations and carries only a count. Which people sit on which board stays on each organisation’s own page, exactly as the CRA published it, and there is deliberately no way here to search by a person or to list what one individual is involved in. Why that line is drawn there.
What it raised and spent — year ended November 30, 2024
Total revenue
$770,323
Total spending
$697,972
Total assets
$341,138
Total liabilities
$90,258
Receipted donations
$113,277
From other charities
$23,132
Charitable programs48.5% · $338K · line 5000
Management and administration37.3% · $261K · line 5010
Fundraising14.2% · $99K · line 5020
These are the charity’s own figures. They come from the T3010 return it filed with the Canada Revenue Agency, which is a statement the organisation makes about itself rather than an audit or an assessment of it. They are also a single year: a charity that received a capital gift, sold a building, or ran a campaign will look unlike itself.

A low share spent on programs is not by itself evidence of anything. Fundraising costs money, a year of building a reserve looks like underspending, and grant-making foundations pass money onward rather than running programs. The lines are shown as filed, with the CRA line numbers, so a reader can check them against the return.
Public money on record
Federal grants and contributions
$202,978

across 6 agreements, 2020–2025

2020$105K
2021$17K
2022$26K
2023$5K
2024$16K
2025$33K
Paying institutionAwardsValue
Canadian Heritage1$105,400
Employment and Social Development Canada5$97,578
Value as published, not money paid. The federal contract value field includes the ceiling of standing offers and supply arrangements — purchasing capacity a department may never draw on. A large figure here can mean a large ceiling rather than a large payment.

Awards are attached to this record only where the evidence identifies exactly one organisation: a name and postal area that narrow to a single company, or a name unique across the whole national corpus. Proactive publication truncates the vendor postal code to three characters, so anything that could belong to more than one company is left unattached rather than guessed at. Totals are a floor in that direction. The full rules.
Timeline
  1. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$33,377
  2. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$16,059
  3. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$5,012
  4. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$26,447
  5. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$16,683
  6. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$105,400
  7. Registered — Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act
Why this is one record

5 public datasets from 3 independent publishers describe this organisation. They were joined into one record because the evidence below agreed — never on a matching name alone.

  • Shares business number 878197417
    asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada)

An automatic merge requires a shared business number, or a matching name AND address — never a name by itself. How resolution works.

Where this record comes from
DatasetLast capturedCadenceCoverage keptHealth
Registered charities — directors and officers (2024 returns)
Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 2, 2026P1Y1 captures · 0 comparisonscurrent
Registered charities — financial data (2024 returns)
Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 5, 2026P1Y1 captures · 0 comparisonscurrent
Registered charities — identification (2024 returns)
Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 8, 2026P1Y2 captures · 1 comparisonscurrent
Federal corporations — active not-for-profit, co-operative and boards of trade
Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) · Open Government Licence – Canada
October 24, 2026P1D11 captures · 10 comparisonsdue
Proactive disclosure — federal grants and contributions
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 3, 2026P3M1 captures · 0 comparisonscurrent
Freshness is measured, not implied. “Last captured” is when this project last completed a read of the whole source dataset. “Coverage kept” is how many immutable captures and meaningful capture-to-capture comparisons are available. A missed day remains an explicit gap; a later snapshot cannot tell us what happened inside it. See every source.

This page is assembled from open data. It is not an official record, and the registrar is authoritative where the two disagree. How records are assembled.

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