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Registered — Huntsville, ON — Charitable Organization
Scores: Legitimacy 100/100 · Effectiveness 83/100
Financials: Revenue $1,273,360 · Expenditures $1,196,985
Huntsville Festival of the Arts is an Ontario community arts organization that has thrived for 33 years, directing 87.7% of expenditures to programming while keeping compensation at a remarkably lean 7.0% of revenue. Its main vulnerability is thin reserves of just 1.7 months — enough for roughly seven weeks of operations — which leaves it exposed to any disruption in its seasonal funding cycle.
Our Verdict: A well-governed arts festival with strong program spending and extremely lean staffing costs, though its thin financial reserves mean it operates with little margin for unexpected disruptions. A solid choice for donors supporting community arts in the Muskoka region.