OAC Grant Statistics

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