Ontario · Registered charity
HURON WAVES MUSIC FESTIVAL
HURON WAVES MUSIC FESTIVAL (Ontario) receives grants from 7 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$46,655 to it, the largest being THE CHARLES H. IVEY FOUNDATION (C$20,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
HURON WAVES MUSIC FESTIVAL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,067 arts nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,067 arts nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Blessings Community Storelocalportfolio match
- Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts de L'Ontarioshared fundersportfolio match
- Dove's Nest Ministrylocal
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 32% · 2021 25% · 2022 37% · 2023 28% · 2024 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of HURON WAVES MUSIC FESTIVAL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (11% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell C$5k → C$2k.
From the CRA filings of HURON WAVES MUSIC FESTIVAL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 7 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
HURON WAVES MUSIC FESTIVAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund HURON WAVES MUSIC FESTIVAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 100% · 2019 50% · 2020 63% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 71% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
89% of HURON WAVES MUSIC FESTIVAL's grant income comes from Ontario funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$14k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 region is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 165 organizations that share them.
- Blessings Community Storelocalportfolio matchON · funds 11 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts de L'Ontarioshared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 17 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Dove's Nest MinistrylocalON · funds 15 organizations near you
- Incite Foundation for the Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Stratford Arts Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Good Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Council for Business and the Arts in Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alberta Music Education Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Hogervorst Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Manitoba Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Mary-Margaret Webb Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Norfolk Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government revenue HURON WAVES MUSIC FESTIVAL reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 37% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like HURON WAVES MUSIC FESTIVAL
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every charity on the CRA register — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ontario
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds HURON WAVES MUSIC FESTIVAL?
- HURON WAVES MUSIC FESTIVAL (Ontario) receives grants from 7 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$46,655 to it, the largest being THE CHARLES H. IVEY FOUNDATION (C$20,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HURON WAVES MUSIC FESTIVAL have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 7 organizations giving C$46,655 in grants to HURON WAVES MUSIC FESTIVAL, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HURON WAVES MUSIC FESTIVAL?
- THE CHARLES H. IVEY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HURON WAVES MUSIC FESTIVAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ontario.
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These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register