OAC Grant Statistics

OAC Funding Facts 2020-2021

• $78.6 million
  Total OAC grants¹
   
• 3,488
  Total number of grants awarded by OAC
   
• 12,056
  Total number of grant applications submitted to OAC
   
• 1,312
  Number of OAC grants to arts organizations
   
• $68.2 million
  Total in OAC grants to organizations
   
• 2,176
  Number of OAC grants to individual artists
   
• $10.4 million
  Total in OAC grants to individual artists
   
• $5.34
  Total public support to the arts through OAC per Ontarian²
   
• 51,364
  Total number of public arts activities offered by OAC’s annually funded arts organizations*
   
• 24.7 million
  Total public attendance at arts events offered by OAC’s annually funded arts organizations*
   
• 81,418
  Total number of arts education activities for people of all ages presented by OAC’s annually funded arts organizations*
   
• 4.7 million
  Total number of participants of all ages in arts education activities offered by OAC’s annually funded arts organizations*
   
• 2.0 million
  Total number of these 4.7 million arts education participants who are children or youth*
   
• 44,751
  Number of artists employed by OAC’s annually funded arts organizations*
   
• 60,047 
  Total number of people who volunteered at OAC’s annually funded arts organizations*
   
• 1.7 million
  Number of hours worked by volunteers at OAC’s annually funded arts organizations*
   
• 206
  Total number of Ontario communities where resident artists and arts organizations received OAC grants

² Based on Ontario population of 14,734,014 as of July 2020 (Source: Statistics Canada, Table 17-10-0005-01)

* Reflects actual data for 2018-2019 for 485 organizations from 2020-2021 OAC operating applications/CADAC