Ontario · Registered charity
THE GRAND RIVER JAZZ SOCIETY CORP.
THE GRAND RIVER JAZZ SOCIETY CORP. (Ontario) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$42,936 to it, the largest being Waterloo Region Community Foundation (C$24,700). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
THE GRAND RIVER JAZZ SOCIETY CORP. runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 689 education in the arts nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 689 education in the 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.
- Good Foundation Inc.localportfolio match
- Waterloo Rotary Club Charitable Foundationlocal
- Manitoba Arts Councilportfolio match
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: 2017 24% · 2018 23% · 2019 19% · 2020 23% · 2021 18% · 2022 40% · 2023 24% · 2024 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
22% of THE GRAND RIVER JAZZ SOCIETY CORP.’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (11% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose C$5k → C$5k.
From the CRA filings of THE GRAND RIVER JAZZ SOCIETY CORP.’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
THE GRAND RIVER JAZZ SOCIETY CORP. leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 THE GRAND RIVER JAZZ SOCIETY CORP..
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 60% · 2019 85% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 68% · 2023 49% — 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
58% of THE GRAND RIVER JAZZ SOCIETY CORP.'s grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the C$18k that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from Ontario funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$25k 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.
- Good Foundation Inc.localportfolio matchON · funds 11 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Waterloo Rotary Club Charitable FoundationlocalON · funds 6 organizations near you
- Manitoba Arts Councilportfolio 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
- Foundation for Choral Music in Manitoba Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Winnipeg Arts Council Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts de L'Ontarioportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Incite Foundation for the Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Richardson Foundation Inc. /Fondation Richardson Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Music Education Charity of Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lloyd Carr-Harris 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 THE GRAND RIVER JAZZ SOCIETY CORP. reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 16% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like THE GRAND RIVER JAZZ SOCIETY CORP.
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.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE GRAND RIVER JAZZ SOCIETY CORP.?
- THE GRAND RIVER JAZZ SOCIETY CORP. (Ontario) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$42,936 to it, the largest being Waterloo Region Community Foundation (C$24,700). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE GRAND RIVER JAZZ SOCIETY CORP. have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 4 organizations giving C$42,936 in grants to THE GRAND RIVER JAZZ SOCIETY CORP., 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE GRAND RIVER JAZZ SOCIETY CORP.?
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with C$24,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE GRAND RIVER JAZZ SOCIETY CORP. find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ontario.
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 4 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