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Elena Bird

Associate Director of Research and Analysis
416-969-7446
Toll-free in Ontario: 1-800-387-0058

Michael Choo

Research Analyst
416-969-7445    
Toll-free in Ontario: 1-800-387-0058

Georgia Steele

Granting Programs Coordinator
416-969-7404
Toll-free in Ontario: 1-800-387-0058

Kim Kinnear

Business Analyst
416-969-7463
 
Toll-free in Ontario: 1-800-387-0058
 

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
 
Sources:
 
All data cited are most recent available.
Unless otherwise noted, the source for all figures is OAC’s grants database for the year 2022-2023.

1 Based on Ontario population of 15,109,416 as of July 2022 (Source: Statistics Canada, Table 17-10-0005-01)

* Reflects actual data for 2020-2021 for 507 organizations from 2022-2023 OAC operating applications/CADAC