Ontario Arts Council
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 824581078RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($64,477,547) as filed with the CRA.
Ontario Arts Council is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $63.7M in revenue and $64.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 94% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $12K.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 43% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 55 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
Since its inception in 1963 the ontario arts council (oac) has played a vital role in promoting and supporting the development creation and production of the arts for the enjoyment and benefit of all ontarians. The oac has fostered the growth of ontario's arts infrastructure by providing funding to individual artists and arts organizations in all artistic disciplines and in all regions of the province.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $63.7M | $64.5M | $56.2M | — | — | $36.3M |
| 2023 | $69.3M | $66.4M | — | — | — | $34.1M |
| 2022 | $67.4M | $66.5M | $58.3M | — | — | $33.5M |
| 2021 | $86.7M | $87M | $79.7M | — | — | $32.8M |
| 2020 | $62.5M | $62.2M | $54.5M | — | — | $27.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $12K from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions55
- Total compensation, all staff$6.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ontario Arts Council’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 824581078RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.