OAC Grant Statistics

OAC Funding Facts 2018-2019

• $61.1 million
  Total OAC grants
   
• 3,676
  Total number of grants awarded by OAC
   
• 12,116
  Total number of grant applications submitted to OAC
   
• 1,424
  Number of OAC grants to arts organizations
   
• $51.3 million
  Total in OAC grants to organizations
   
• 2,252
  Number of OAC grants to individual artists
   
• $9.9 million
  Total in OAC grants to individual artists
   
• $4.53
  Total public support to the arts through OAC per Ontarian¹
   
• 44,307
  Total number of public arts activities offered by OAC’s annually funded arts organizations*
   
• 21 million
  Total public attendance at arts events offered by OAC’s annually funded arts organizations*
   
• 70,188
  Total number of arts education activities for people of all ages presented by OAC’s annually funded arts organizations*
   
• 5.1 million
  Total number of participants of all ages in arts education activities offered by OAC’s annually funded arts organizations*
   
• 2.2 million
  Total number of these 5.1 million arts education participants who are children or youth*
   
• 37,773
  Number of artists employed by OAC’s annually funded arts organizations*
   
• 70,524 
  Total number of people who volunteered at OAC’s annually funded arts organizations*
   
• 1.8 million
  Number of hours worked by volunteers at OAC’s annually funded arts organizations*
   
• 228
  Total number of Ontario communities where resident artists and arts organizations received OAC grants

* Reflects actual data for 2014-2015 for 483 organizations from 2016-2017 OAC operating applications/CADAC
 

¹ Based on Ontario population of 14,322,757 as of July 2018 (Source: Statistics Canada, Table 17-10-0005-01)