OAC Grant Statistics

OAC Funding Facts 2022-2023

• $57.1 million
  Total OAC grants
   
• 3,386
  Total number of grants awarded by OAC
   
• 10,381
  Total number of grant applications submitted to OAC
   
• 1,042
  Number of OAC grants to arts organizations
   
• $45.9 million
  Total in OAC grants to organizations
   
• 2,344
  Number of OAC grants to individual artists
   
• $11.2 million
  Total in OAC grants to individual artists
   
• $3.78
  Total public support to the arts through OAC per Ontarian¹
   
• 21,656
  Total number of public arts activities offered by OAC’s annually funded arts organizations*
   
• 12.6 million
  Total public attendance at arts events offered by OAC’s annually funded arts organizations*
   
• 39,832
  Total number of arts education activities for people of all ages presented by OAC’s annually funded arts organizations*
   
• 3.8 million
  Total number of participants of all ages in arts education activities offered by OAC’s annually funded arts organizations*
   
• 1.5 million
  Total number of these 3.8 million arts education participants who are children or youth*
   
• 35,028
  Number of artists employed by OAC’s annually funded arts organizations*
   
• 32,585
  Total number of people who volunteered at OAC’s annually funded arts organizations*
   
• 749,972
  Number of hours worked by volunteers at OAC’s annually funded arts organizations*
   
• 224
  Total number of Ontario communities where resident artists and arts organizations received OAC grants