OAC Grant Statistics

OAC Funding Facts 2019-2020

• $51.9 million
  Total OAC grants
   
• 3,117
  Total number of grants awarded by OAC
   
• 10,587
  Total number of grant applications submitted to OAC
   
• 1,152
  Number of OAC grants to arts organizations
   
• $43.5 million
  Total in OAC grants to organizations
   
• 1,965
  Number of OAC grants to individual artists
   
• $8.4 million
  Total in OAC grants to individual artists
   
• $3.57
  Total public support to the arts through OAC per Ontarian¹
   
• 50,347
  Total number of public arts activities offered by OAC’s annually funded arts organizations*
   
• 23.3 million
  Total public attendance at arts events offered by OAC’s annually funded arts organizations*
   
• 83,221
  Total number of arts education activities for people of all ages presented by OAC’s annually funded arts organizations*
   
• 5.7 million
  Total number of participants of all ages in arts education activities offered by OAC’s annually funded arts organizations*
   
• 2.4 million
  Total number of these 5.7 million arts education participants who are children or youth*
   
• 40,025
  Number of artists employed by OAC’s annually funded arts organizations*
   
• 71,923 
  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*
   
• 197
  Total number of Ontario communities where resident artists and arts organizations received OAC grants

* Reflects actual data for 2016-2017 for 475 organizations from 2018-2019 OAC operating applications/CADAC
 

¹ Based on Ontario population of 14,566,547 as of July 2019 (Source: Statistics Canada, Table 17-10-0005-01)