UpTown Waterloo Jazz Festival Inc.
Charitable organization · Waterloo, Ontario · BN 868759374RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($148,063) as filed with the CRA.
UpTown Waterloo Jazz Festival Inc. is a charitable organization based in Waterloo, Ontario, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, it reported $142K in revenue and $148K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 75% from donations, 20% from government. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2,807.
Compared with 724 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 58% of peers.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $32K in 2020 to $142K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
The official mandate of the uptown waterloo jazz festival is to consistently maintain a pure jazz focus sustain and promote the local jazz connection strive to expand and develop the free festival in quality and ma and magnitude engage the active participation on all ages advocate the development of an ongoing association between waterloo and jazz.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $142K | $148K | $126K | — | — | -$27K |
| 2023 | $253K | $309K | $148K | — | — | -$21K |
| 2022 | $311K | $296K | $166K | — | — | $34K |
| 2021 | $30K | $43K | $26K | — | — | $3,085 |
| 2020 | $32K | $26K | $25K | — | — | $17K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2,807 from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Cheryl Ewing (festival manager); Steve Joyce (chair); Derek Hines (artistic director); John Miller-Sweeney (director); (yang Yang) Runyi Xue (director); Cody Miller-Sweeney (director); Zoe Cleeves (director); Jim McIntyre (director); Jeyas Balaskianthan (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from UpTown Waterloo Jazz Festival Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 868759374RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.