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Arts Service Organizations: Operating | Ontario Arts Council (OAC)

March 13, 2025

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Description

The program supports the ongoing operations of not-for-profit, professional arts service organizations in Ontario. Arts service organizations may have provincial, national, regional or local mandates. There are five categories:

  • National Arts Service Organizations
  • Provincial Arts Service Organizations
  • Regional Arts Service Organizations
  • Local Arts Service Organizations
  • Community Arts Councils

Eligible Applicants

  • Ontario-based, not-for-profit corporations, or national not-for-profit corporations with the head office in Ontario
  • Organizations must have:
    • at least $75,000 in total revenues for the last fiscal year, and in projected revenues for the current and requested years (for applicants not currently receiving funding from this program)
    • at least two years of sustained, regular, ongoing programming, as of the application date. If your organization does not meet this requirement, consider applying for project funding
    • a range of revenue sources
    • an active board of directors/governing body
  • Arts Service Organizations must:
    • have a primary mandate to provide services to artists and/or arts organizations
    • serve professional artists, arts professionals and/or arts organizations
    • The arts professionals and arts organizations you serve must be eligible to apply to another OAC program
    • have at least one (full- or half-time) paid staff member. If your organization does not currently have any paid staff, a written plan proposing how the organization will move toward having paid staff within the next year or two is required

Eligible Expenses

The program’s priorities are to support organizations that demonstrate a consistent commitment to:

  • providing high-quality services to professional artists, arts professionals or arts organizations in Ontario
  • providing services for members who are or who are mandated to support OAC priority groups: artists of colour, Deaf Artists and artists with disabilities, Francophone artists, Indigenous artists, new generation artists (18-30 year old), and artists living in regions outside Toronto

Deadline Date

March 13, 2025, 1 p.m. ET

Contact

Contact Name: Maura Broadhurst | Officer or Elizabeth Braoudakis | Program Administrator

Phone Number: 416-646-7467 | 416-969-7412

E-mail Address: mbroadhurst@arts.on.ca | lbraoudakis@arts.on.ca

Website: https://www.arts.on.ca/grants/arts-service-organizations-operating

Industry:

Arts and Culture, Non-Profit

Location:

Ontario

Tags:

Artist, Arts Organization, Disability, Indigenous

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