OAC Funding Facts 2023-2024
- $53.3 million
Total OAC grants
- 3,192
Total number of grants awarded by OAC
- 11,215
Total number of grant applications submitted to OAC
- 1,043
Number of OAC grants to arts organizations
- $42.6 million
Total in OAC grants to organizations
- 2,149
Number of OAC grants to individual artists
- $10.6 million
Total in OAC grants to individual artists
- $3.41
Total public support to the arts through OAC per Ontarian1
- 41,172
Total number of public arts activities offered by OAC’s annually funded arts organizations*
- 21.2 million
Total public attendance at arts events offered by OAC’s annually funded arts organizations*
- 57,228
Total number of arts education activities for people of all ages presented by OAC’s annually funded arts organizations*
- 3.6 million
Total number of participants of all ages in arts education activities offered by OAC’s annually funded arts organizations*
- 1.6 million
Total number of these 3.6 million arts education participants who are children or youth*
- 43,426
Number of artists employed by OAC’s annually funded arts organizations*
- 44,370
Total number of people who volunteered at OAC’s annually funded arts organizations*
- 1,032,800
Number of hours worked by volunteers at OAC’s annually funded arts organizations*
- 219
Total number of Ontario communities where resident artists and arts organizations received OAC grants
Sources:
All data cited are most recent available.
Unless otherwise noted, the source for all figures is OAC’s grants database for the year 2023-2024.
1 Based on Ontario population of 15,608,369 as of July 2023 (Source: Statistics Canada, Table 17-10-0005-01)
* Reflects actual data for 2021-2022 for 500 organizations from 2023-2024 OAC operating applications/CADAC