Registered charity
Ottawa Bluesfest Foundation
CA-E-WK8F-49Y8ActiveCanada (federal)Ontario4 independent sources
$25.3MRevenue reported
$5.2MPublic money on record
6On the board
2Organisations connected
4Independent publishers
95/100Evidence depth
October 24, 2026Latest source capture
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
- 368526-8
- Corporation number
- 3685268
- Legal Entity Identifier
- 5493005RDOQHPK448Z27
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.
Global legal identity. This organisation carries a Legal Entity Identifier in the GLEIF system. The LEI is evidence attached to this entities.ca record; it does not replace the permanent Canadian Entity Identifier. Open the GLEIF source record.
Evidence depth
95/100
Deep recordThis 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: 2 organisation connections · 3 same-address neighbours.
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
62
Public activitypermits and recorded work
0
Relationshipsfiled board and identifier-linked organisations
58
Regulatorydecided public findings
0
Historydated span and recorded events
85
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
| 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 |
| Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) | Legal Entity Identifier | 5493005RDOQHPK448Z27 | September 13, 2014 | ACTIVE — LEI ISSUED · GLEIF FULLY_CORROBORATED |
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.
Organisations sharing a filed director name (2)
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.
| Organisation | Kind | Names in common |
|---|---|---|
| Michaëlle Jean Foundation CA-E-AS85-4B06 | Registered charity | 1 |
| The Snowsuit Fund CA-E-64RE-CZFY | Registered charity | 1 |
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.
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.
At the same address (3)
Organisations that filed the same street address and suite as this one, 450 CHURCHILL AVE N.
| Organisation | Kind |
|---|---|
| Ottawa Festival Network CA-E-HXH1-HZ97 | Federal not-for-profit corporation |
| Ottawa Music Foundation CA-E-8DVP-98Y6 | Registered charity |
| The Ontario Festival of Small Halls CA-E-4YGH-AJEA | Federal not-for-profit corporation |
A shared door is not always a shared purpose. Sharing an address can mean one organisation with several registered arms, a building a sector clusters in, or simply a landlord. It is a fact about where filings were sent, not a claim about who controls whom.
Addresses used here are only ones already published on these pages: where a single publisher asserts an address it is coarsened to a locality, because a registered office is very often somebody’s home. And where 25 or more organisations share one door — a registered agent or a law firm — no connection is drawn at all, because at that point the address describes the agent rather than the organisations. How address precision is decided.
Addresses used here are only ones already published on these pages: where a single publisher asserts an address it is coarsened to a locality, because a registered office is very often somebody’s home. And where 25 or more organisations share one door — a registered agent or a law firm — no connection is drawn at all, because at that point the address describes the agent rather than the organisations. How address precision is decided.
What it raised and spent — year ended August 31, 2024
- Total revenue
- $25,252,372
- Total spending
- $24,623,843
- Total assets
- $16,238,163
- Total liabilities
- $4,598,410
Charitable programs83.7% · $20.6M · line 5000
Management and administration14.0% · $3.4M · line 5010
Fundraising0.6% · $150K · line 5020
Not broken down in the return1.8% · $431K
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.
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
$5,209,979
across 27 agreements, 2006–2025
| Paying institution | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada | 2 | $3,488,535 |
| Canadian Heritage | 16 | $1,553,850 |
| Employment and Social Development Canada | 9 | $167,594 |
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.
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.
What it does
- Industry code
- 711311North American Industry Classification System
Trade and licence class are the publisher’s own words, kept as written rather than mapped onto a vocabulary of this site’s invention — a Calgary “RESTAURANT” and a Montréal “Restaurant service rapide” describe the same thing and are not the same string, and pretending otherwise would put words in a city’s mouth. The industry code is the exception: NAICS is a standard shared across Canada, the United States and Mexico, so it means the same thing wherever it appears. Only some publishers assign one.
Timeline
- Registered — Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$131,850
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$192,000
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$15,000
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$50,000
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$13,226
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$4,430
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$17,720
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$180,000
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$15,188
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$15,188
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$18,985
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$75,000
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$28,857
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$27,000
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$27,000
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$150,000
- Registered — Legal Entity Identifier
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$200,000
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$50,000
- Registered — Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$50,000
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$50,000
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$50,000
- Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$1,987,500
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$100,000
- Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$1,501,035
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$150,000
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$60,000
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$50,000
Why this is one record
6 public datasets from 4 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 869362780asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada)
- Same name and postal code K1Z 5E2asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) and Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF)
- Same name and address — 450 churchill n, ottawa, ONasserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) and Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF)
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
| Dataset | Last captured | Cadence | Coverage kept | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Registered charities — directors and officers (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 2, 2026 | P1Y | 1 captures · 0 comparisons | current |
| Registered charities — financial data (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 5, 2026 | P1Y | 1 captures · 0 comparisons | current |
| Registered charities — identification (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 8, 2026 | P1Y | 2 captures · 1 comparisons | current |
| 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, 2026 | P1D | 11 captures · 10 comparisons | due |
| Proactive disclosure — federal grants and contributions Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 3, 2026 | P3M | 1 captures · 0 comparisons | current |
| Global LEI Index — Canadian legal entities Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) · Public Domain — CC0 1.0 Universal | October 24, 2026 | P1D | 5 captures · 4 comparisons | due |
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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