arts Grants for toronto-based organizations, collectives and individuals

The list below includes all the grants we offer, in alphabetical order. Grants in blue are still available to apply to; deadlines have passed for grants in grey. Browse the list below or use the search and filter option to discover grants that are right for you.

Funding Type

Applicant Type

Grant Category

Art Interests

Activity Type

Animating Historic Sites

Project funding

Supports artistic projects involving site-specific research, development, creation, production, presentation, and programming that responds to or interprets selected sites or museums. Open to organizations, collectives and individuals.

Deadline: July 8, 2025

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Animating Toronto Parks

Project funding

Supports free arts programming in selected Toronto parks. Open to organizations, collectives and individuals

Deadline: June 3, 2025

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Artists in the Library

Project funding

Supports free community-engaged arts programming in selected library branches. Open to organizations, collectives and individuals.

Deadline: September 30, 2025

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Black Arts Annual Operating

Operating funding

Supports the development, continuation, and flourishing of Black arts organizations.

Deadline: March 12, 2025

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Black Arts Projects

Project funding

Supports the creation, development, and presentation of arts projects by Black artists working across all artistic disciplines. Also supports artistic development through mentorship. Open to organizations, collectives and individuals.

Rolling Deadline

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Community Music Making

Operating funding

Supports annual programming of non-profit community choirs, opera, orchestras and ensembles. Open to organizations and collectives.

Deadline: April 7, 2025

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Creative Communities Annual Operating

Operating funding

Supports work that enables public participation in arts and culture. Open to organizations.

Deadline: March 3, 2025

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Creative Communities Multi-Year Operating

Operating funding

Supports work that enables public participation in arts and culture. Open to organizations.

Deadline: April 1, 2025

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Creative Communities Projects

Project funding

Supports projects that engage communities through the arts. Open to organizations, collectives and individuals.

Deadlines: February 3, 2025 & August 5, 2025

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CREATIVE ENQUIRY LAB

Project funding

Encourages arts organizations and collectives to consider the creative possibilities unlocked using an exploratory design process alongside students in the Creative School’s Design Solutions Super Course at TMU.

Deadline: August 14, 2025

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Dance Annual Operating

Operating funding

Supports the creation, production, presentation and preservation of dance, and other activities that contribute to the development of dance, dance artists, and dance audiences in Toronto. Open to organizations.

Deadline: February 3, 2025

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Dance Multi-Year Operating

Operating funding

Supports the creation, production, presentation and preservation of dance, and other activities that contribute to the development of dance, dance artists, and dance audiences in Toronto. Open to organizations.

Deadline: March 10, 2025

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Dance Projects

Project funding

Supports professional development, creation, production and presentation of dance. Open to organizations, collectives and individuals.

Deadlines: February 18, 2025 & August 5, 2025

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Indigenous Arts Projects

Project funding

Supports the creation, development and presentation of arts projects by Indigenous artists working across all artistic disciplines. Also supports Indigenous arts sector development projects. Open to organizations, collectives and individuals.

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Literary Annual Operating

Operating funding

Supports the presentation, dissemination and/or other activities that contribute to the development of the literary arts, literary artists and literary audiences in Toronto. Open to organizations.

Deadline: March 3, 2025

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Literary Projects

Project funding

Supports literary projects including spoken word events, reading series, festivals, conferences and more. Open to organizations and collectives.

Deadlines: March 3, 2025 & August 5, 2025

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Media Artists Program: Creation

Project funding

Supports the creation/production of new or in-progress works covering costs of subsistence/materials or production and/or post-production support. Open to individuals.

Deadline: October 15, 2025

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Music Annual Operating

Operating funding

Supports the creation, production and presentation of music, and other activities that contribute to the development of music, music artists, and music audiences in Toronto. Open to organizations.

Deadline: March 3, 2025

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Music Creation and audio Recording

Project funding

Supports artists working in any genre in the creation, writing and production of their original music. Open to individuals.

Deadline: September 2, 2025

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Music Multi-Year Operating

Operating funding

Supports the creation, production and presentation of music, and other activities that contribute to the development of music, music artists, and music audiences in Toronto. Open to organizations.

Deadline: March 10, 2025

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Music Projects

Project funding

Supports music projects involving production, presentation, dissemination and/or other activities. Open to organizations and collectives.

Deadlines: March 3, 2025 & August 5, 2025

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Newcomer and Refugee Artist Mentorship

Project funding

Supports newcomer and refugee artists to develop their artistic practice. Open to individuals.

Deadline: April 22, 2025

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Newcomer and Refugee Arts Engagement

Project funding

Supports projects that engage newcomers and refugees through the arts. Open to organizations and collectives.

Deadline: April 22, 2025

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Open Door

Project funding

Supports ambitious, timely projects that demonstrate innovation, risk taking, partnership and/or the sharing of knowledge or leadership. Open to organizations and collectives.

Deadline: November 26, 2025

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Playwrights program

Project funding

Supports the creation of theatrical plays. Open to individuals.

Deadline: June 16, 2025

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TAC Accessibility Grant

Operating funding

Rolling Deadline

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Theatre Annual Operating

Operating funding

Supports the creation, production and presentation of theatre, and other activities that contribute to the development of theatre, theatre artists, and theatre audiences in Toronto. Open to organizations.

Deadline: March 3, 2025

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Theatre Multi-Year Operating

Operating funding

Supports the creation, production and presentation of theatre, and other activities that contribute to the development of theatre, theatre artists, and theatre audiences in Toronto. Open to organizations.

Deadline: March 10, 2025

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Theatre Projects

Project funding

Supports the creation, production and presentation of theatre works. Open to organizations and collectives.

Deadlines: February 3, 2025 & August 5, 2025

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Visual Artists program: Creation

Project funding

Supports the creation and production of new work or works-in-progress for a variety of visual arts mediums. Open to individuals.

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Visual/Media Arts Annual Operating

Operating funding

Supports the exhibition, distribution and production of visual and media artworks and other activities that contribute to the development of visual and media arts, artists and audiences in Toronto. Open to organizations

Deadline: March 3, 2025

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Visual/Media Arts Multi-Year Operating

Operating funding

Supports the exhibition, distribution and production of contemporary visual and media artworks and other activities that contribute to the development of visual and media arts, artists and audiences in Toronto. Open to organizations.

Deadline: March 10, 2025

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Visual/Media Arts Projects: Presentation

Operating funding

Supports projects involving the exhibition or distribution of contemporary visual or media arts. Open to organizations and collectives.

Deadlines: March 3, 2025 & August 5, 2025

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Writers program

Project funding

Supports the creation of new literary works in written and oral forms across diverse genres. Open to individuals.

Deadline: June 16, 2025

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