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Total number of Ontario communities where resident artists and arts organizations received OAC grant
204

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
 
Sources:
 
All data cited are most recent available.
Unless otherwise noted, the source for all figures is OAC’s grants database for the year 2024-2025.

1 Based on Ontario population of 16,124,116 as of July 2024 (Source: Statistics Canada, Table 17-10-0005-01)

* Reflects actual data for 2022-2023 for 550 organizations from 2024-2025 OAC operating applications/CADAC