OAC Grant Statistics

OAC Funding Facts 2024-2025

• $52.2 million
  Total OAC grants
   
• 2,999
  Total number of grants awarded by OAC
   
• 11,706
  Total number of grant applications submitted to OAC
   
• 1,030
  Number of OAC grants to arts organizations
   
• $42.7 million
  Total in OAC grants to organizations
   
• 1,969
  Number of OAC grants to individual artists
   
• $9.5 million
  Total in OAC grants to individual artists
   
• $3.24
  Total public support to the arts through OAC per Ontarian¹
   
• 50,129
  Total number of public arts activities offered by OAC’s annually funded arts organizations*
   
• 31.1 million
  Total public attendance at arts events offered by OAC’s annually funded arts organizations*
   
• 66,448
  Total number of arts education activities for people of all ages presented by OAC’s annually funded arts organizations*
   
• 4.3 million
  Total number of participants of all ages in arts education activities offered by OAC’s annually funded arts organizations*
   
• 1.7 million
  Total number of these 4.3 million arts education participants who are children or youth*
   
• 55,042
  Number of artists employed by OAC’s annually funded arts organizations*
   
• 49,621
  Total number of people who volunteered at OAC’s annually funded arts organizations*
   
• 1.1 million
  Number of hours worked by volunteers at OAC’s annually funded arts organizations*
   
• 204
  Total number of Ontario communities where resident artists and arts organizations received OAC grants