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Top 25 Arts councils based in Canada
RevenueBase identified 95 arts councils headquartered in Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 849 professional contacts across them, including 286 with verified work emails and 80 with mobile numbers. Toronto is the largest hub.
This list covers arts councils headquartered in Canada, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 7, 2026.
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The 25 largest arts councils based in Canada
Ranked by team size| # | Company | RevenueBase Smart Search | Contacts | ||
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| 1 | Indirect evidence | 72 contacts → | |||
“OAC is an agency that operates at arm's length from the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Gaming.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | Partial evidence | 43 contacts → | |||
“Vision: A creative, connected Calgary through the arts.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | Indirect evidence | 43 contacts → | |||
“Agir pour la culture, c’est plus qu’un leitmotiv.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | Strong evidence | 41 contacts → | |||
“Toronto Arts Council (TAC) is an arms-length organization funded by the City of Toronto to support the development, accessibility and excellence of the arts in our city.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | Partial evidence | 32 contacts → | |||
“Our vision, Creative City: Block by Block is to connect every Toronto neighbourhood with the transformative social and economic benefits of the arts.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | Strong evidence | 29 contacts → | |||
“The Edmonton Arts Council is a not-for-profit organization that supports and promotes the arts community in Edmonton.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | Partial evidence | 24 contacts → | |||
“The Manitoba Centennial Centre Corporation is a key link to arts and culture in Winnipeg through the following buildings and properties of the Centennial Centre for the Arts…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | Partial evidence | 23 contacts → | |||
“The Aurora Cultural Centre delivers professional arts and culture programming to the community, with a mix of educational classes, camps, galleries and performing arts.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | Partial evidence | 21 contacts → | |||
“Depuis son inauguration en 1967, la Maison des arts Desjardins Drummondville a pour mission le développement culturel local et régional, dans les domaines des arts de la scène et…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | Partial evidence | 19 contacts → | |||
“Diffuseur majeur de spectacles en arts de la scène: Le Centre culturel Desjardins participe activement à la vie culturelle de la région de Lanaudière en proposant à sa population…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | Strong evidence | 18 contacts → | |||
“North Van Arts, founded in 1969 as The North Vancouver Community Arts Council, is a grassroots, social-profit, charitable cultural organization dedicated to maximizing the…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | Strong evidence | 16 contacts → | |||
“UrbanArts is a progressive, not-for-profit Community Arts Council (CAC)/Local Arts Service Organization (LASO) providing opportunities for diverse cultural expression, artistic…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | Partial evidence | 16 contacts → | |||
“TAPA- Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts is dedicated to listening and learning about the needs of these diverse members to effectively support their individual work, while…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | Strong evidence | 16 contacts → | |||
“The Langley Arts Council is a community-based arts organization with the mission to “cultivate, sustain, and proliferate artistic activity in the Langleys by offering both…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | Indirect evidence | 16 contacts → | |||
“ArtStarts is a charitable organization that expands the role of art in education to activate learning for young people across BC.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | Indirect evidence | 14 contacts → | |||
“Étroitement lié au développement culturel de la région depuis 1977, le Conseil de la culture de l’Estrie regroupe et soutient des artistes, des organismes et des travailleurs…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | Strong evidence | 14 contacts → | |||
“Since 1946, the Community Arts Council of Vancouver (CACV) has provided leadership for arts development in Vancouver.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | Partial evidence | 13 contacts → | |||
“Lakeshore Arts is an incorporated not-for-profit local arts service organization and a registered charity in the City of Toronto.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | Strong evidence | 13 contacts → | |||
“The Mississauga Arts Council is dedicated to enabling the growth of the arts by creating opportunity and connection between artists and residents in Mississauga and beyond.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | Strong evidence | 13 contacts → | |||
“Since 1967, the Quinte Arts Council has dedicated itself to serving its members – artists, member groups, community friends, businesses, and students – while offering arts…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | Strong evidence | 12 contacts → | |||
“The Manitoba Arts Council is an arm’s-length agency of the Province of Manitoba, established in 1965 “to promote the study, enjoyment, production and performance of works in the…” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | Indirect evidence | 12 contacts → | |||
“The Fabienne Colas Foundation is a non-profit organisation located in Quebec, which was created by Réal Barnabé, Fabienne Colas and Emile Castonguay.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | Partial evidence | 12 contacts → | |||
“The Brampton Arts Organization (BAO) champions Brampton's diverse creative community and advocates for the city's creatives.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | Partial evidence | 11 contacts → | |||
“En tant que conseil régional de la culture, Culture Montérégie participe au développement des arts, de la culture et des communications en Montérégie.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | Partial evidence | 11 contacts → | |||
“We are a non-profit organization that works to connect arts and cultural workers with the tools and professional opportunities they need to excel in their roles and practices.” Source: company website · checked Sep 7, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: arts councils. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names arts councils.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of arts councils, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name arts councils. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Canada whose own description of what they do matches “arts councils”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names arts councils), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among arts councils, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Canada are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 286 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 7, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names arts councils, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many arts councils are there based in Canada?
RevenueBase identified 95 arts councils headquartered in Canada as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Ontario Arts Council Conseil DES Arts DE L'ontario, headquartered in Toronto, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most arts councils?
Toronto leads with 15 headquartered companies, followed by Vancouver (6) and Ottawa (5).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 286 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 95 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 7, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.