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Where Ontario's community grants went

One year of Ontario Trillium Foundation grants, 2023-24: 1,033 grants worth $110.3M to 269 cities and towns in all 16 catchment areas, told in four narrated stories. Where the money went, Toronto's share, how big a grant is, and who gets the most per person.

Where Ontario's community grants went: a bar chart of Ontario Trillium Foundation dollars per person by catchment area, led by Algoma, Cochrane, Manitoulin and Sudbury at $11.52, with four narrated tour buttons above and a story card reading The north comes first.Explore it live (opens in a new tab)

Ontario Trillium Foundation grants approved in 2023-24, by catchment area, grant size and program area. Data: Ontario Trillium Foundation open data, Open Government Licence - Ontario; population from Statistics Canada, Open Government Licence - Canada. Narration voiced with ElevenLabs. Not endorsed by the Ontario Trillium Foundation or Statistics Canada.

$110.3M

granted by the Ontario Trillium Foundation in 2023-24

1,033

grants to 269 cities and towns

18.1%

of the dollars went to Toronto, $20.0M

$11.52

per person in Algoma, Cochrane, Manitoulin and Sudbury, the most in Ontario

What the data reveals

THE BIG PICTURE

Every catchment, every corner

Grants reached 269 cities and towns in all 16 catchment areas. Half of all grants were $94,200 or less, and $5.0M went to 11 projects that serve several catchments at once.

THE LEADER

Toronto's share

Toronto received $20.0M across 179 grants, 18.1% of the total. Halton Peel came second at $12.0M, just ahead of Simcoe York at $11.9M.

THE PATTERN

The middle carries the money

563 grants were under $100K and add up to $29.9M, 27.1% of the money. 466 grants of $100K to $500K carried $77.2M, 70.0%. Just 4 grants topped $500K.

THE SURPRISE

The north gets almost twice as much per person

Algoma, Cochrane, Manitoulin and Sudbury received $11.52 per resident and Northwestern Ontario $11.17. Halton Peel, second in total dollars, is last at $5.87. The Ontario average is $7.40.

INTERACTIVE

How to explore it

Take a narrated tour

Four tours of under a minute each. The chart moves with the voice, and every word appears on screen as a caption.

Switch the view

Show dollars by catchment, dollars per person, grant sizes or program areas. The bars re-sort in place.

Click any bar

See its dollars and number of grants and, for a catchment, its dollars per person.

Follow the walkthrough

Press How to use this chart for a narrated spotlight tour of every button on the page.

Light or dark

Switch between light and dark, or let the page follow your device. One button pauses every animation.

Read it as text

A sortable table lists every catchment with its dollars, grants, population and dollars per person.

About the data

Every figure on this page and in the chart is computed from the Ontario Trillium Foundation's published open data and Statistics Canada's 2021 Census.

  • Grants: Ontario Trillium Foundation open data, every grant approved in fiscal year 2023-24: 1,033 grants worth $110,300,100 to 269 cities and towns.
  • Population: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population by census division, added up into the 16 OTF catchment areas.
  • Method: dollars per person divide each catchment's grants by its 2021 population. The 11 projects that serve several catchments ($5.0M) are shown on their own and left out of the per-person view.
  • Narration voiced with ElevenLabs.
  • Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Ontario and the Open Government Licence - Canada. Not endorsed by the Ontario Trillium Foundation or Statistics Canada.

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