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About this page
This page presents a visual overview of how the Alberta Foundation for the Arts (AFA) distributes funding to support Alberta's arts community.
AFA expenditures 2025-26
- Grant programs: $30.6M
- Art Collection: $2.6M
- Admin, research, communication: $1.5M
Funding by recipient type
- 708 grants to organizations: $21.5M
- 380 grants to individuals: $5.2M
Funding by region
- Northwest: 29 grants to organizations ($387,925.00); 2 grants to individuals ($24,250.00)
- Northeast: 7 grants to organizations ($132,932.50); 4 grants to individuals ($47,253.47)
- North Central: 38 grants to organizations ($291,075.00); 4 grants to individuals ($43,131.25)
- Southern: 54 grants to organizations ($740,561.54); 19 grants to individuals ($234,770.38)
- Central: 71 grants to organizations ($1,061,321.63); 15 grants to individuals ($204,942.96)
- Edmonton: 243 grants to organizations ($8,931,088.50); 137 grants to individuals ($1,933,918.21)
- Calgary: 265 grants to organizations ($9,874,948.00); 199 grants to individuals ($2,691,160.02)
Funding by program
- Professional Performing Arts Organizations: $8,865,000.00 (46 / 47 grants awarded)
- Community Support Organizations: $2,900,000.00 (139 / 139)
- Major Arts Presenters: $1,934,600.00 (13 / 13)
- Public Art Galleries: $1,664,200.00 (15 / 15)
- Volunteer Based Arts Organizations: $1,496,400.00 (202 / 202)
- Arts Presenting: $1,486,500.00 (104 / 104)
- Music Individual Project Grants: $1,346,671.76 (115 / 425)
- Provincial Arts Service Organizations: $1,200,000.00 (9 / 9)
- Film and Video Individual Project Grants: $1,071,385.99 (67 / 300)
- Visual Arts and New Media Individual Project Grants: $926,319.78 (72 / 257)
- Literary Individual Project Grants: $875,057.38 (62 / 283)
- Community Performing Arts Organizations: $829,000.00 (105 / 105)
- Artists and Education: $594,152.17 (69 / 123)
- Summer Schools: $400,000.00 (4 / 5)
- Theatre Individual Project Grants: $337,017.62 (22 / 101)
- Dance Individual Project Grants: $331,748.00 (23 / 79)
- Indigenous Arts Individual Project Grants: $277,225.76 (17 / 77)
- Projects Development: $100,000.00 (2 / 2)
- Arts Awards: $14,000.00 (2 / 8)
Contact
- T: 780-415-0249
- E: [email protected]
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