Registered charity

Ottawa Bluesfest Foundation

CA-E-WK8F-49Y8ActiveCanada (federal)3 independent sources

On the record

Identifier: CA-E-WK8F-49Y8
Address: 450 Churchill Ave N, Ottawa, ON, K1Z 5E2
Earliest record: May 4, 2006

Identifiers held

Charity registration: 869362780RR0001
Business number: 769054974
Business number: 869362780
Corporation number: 18060461
Corporation number: 3685268

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 18060461: Corporations Canada — federal corporation search.

Registrations

Registrar	Instrument	Number	Registered	Status
Canada Revenue Agency	Registered charity	869362780RR0001	—	Registered
Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada)	Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act	18060461	July 2, 2026	Active
Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada)	Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act	3685268	February 7, 2013	Active

Board and officers on record (6)

Name	Position	Serving since	Status
Mark Ford	CHAIR	—	current
Zainab Muse	—	—	current
Chris Mccluskey	—	—	current
Eve Morrisseau	—	—	current
Angelique Francis	—	—	current
Jonathon Harris	—	—	current

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.

Public money on record

Federal grants and contributions

$5,954,069

across 35 agreements, 2006–2025

2006$77K

2009$1.6M

2010$2.3M

2013$80K

2014$865K

2016$251K

2017$57K

2018$124K

2019$215K

2020$50K

2022$207K

2025$132K

Paying institution	Awards	Value
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada	2	$3,488,535
Canadian Heritage	16	$1,347,200
Employment and Social Development Canada	15	$1,096,334
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada	1	$17,500
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada	1	$4,500

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

July 2, 2026Registered — Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act
April 1, 2025Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$131,850
July 7, 2022Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$192,000
July 7, 2022Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$15,000
September 1, 2020Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$50,000
May 20, 2019Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$13,226
April 23, 2019Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$4,430
April 23, 2019Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$17,720
April 1, 2019Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$180,000
April 30, 2018Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$15,188
April 23, 2018Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$15,188
April 23, 2018Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$18,985
February 27, 2018Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$75,000
May 30, 2017Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$6,000
May 10, 2017Federal grant — Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada$4,500
May 1, 2017Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$17,500
April 26, 2017Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$28,857
May 27, 2016Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$3,600
May 9, 2016Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$27,000
May 5, 2016Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$27,000
April 8, 2016Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$43,750
March 1, 2016Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$150,000
May 12, 2014Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$200,000
April 17, 2014Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$664,700
May 27, 2013Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$50,000
May 22, 2013Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$30,442
February 7, 2013Registered — Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act
December 3, 2010Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$150,000
November 2, 2010Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$50,000
May 7, 2010Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$50,000
May 4, 2010Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$31,642
January 8, 2010Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$1,987,500
May 26, 2009Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$100,000
May 8, 2009Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$1,501,035
May 7, 2009Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$25,088
May 5, 2006Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$26,868
May 4, 2006Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$50,000

Why this is one record

4 publishers describe this organisation. They were joined into one record because the evidence below agreed — never on a matching name alone.

Shares business number 869362780
asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada)
Same name and postal code K1Z 5E2
asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada)
Same name and address — 450 churchill n, ottawa, ON
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

Registered charities — directors and officers (2024 returns)
Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada
Registered charities — identification (2024 returns)
Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada
Federal corporations — active not-for-profit, co-operative and boards of trade
Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) · Open Government Licence – Canada
Proactive disclosure — federal grants and contributions
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada

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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