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Data completion statistics

How complete our 2,468 funding opportunities are. The Checked tables below count all 5,450 pages on the site: the funding opportunities plus the galleries, venues and services in The Vault. For each kind of detail, the bar shows the share of funding opportunities that give a real answer, rather than a blank, a placeholder, or something in the wrong place. We work to raise every bar over time, and the numbers here change as we do.

Many grants keep their details in PDFs, often on another website. We found 1,711 PDFs linked from 631 funding opportunities and keep 1,002 of them; 244 are hosted on a different website from the funder's page (162 of those not yet kept).

Checked coverage on the live site

A listing is Checked when we compared every key detail it shows with the funder's page (for galleries, venues and services, the listing's own website) and it agreed. Always confirm on that page before you apply. It is Complete when all its key details were found. These numbers are counted from the same data the live site was built from, as of 2026-11-11, and refreshed every time the site is published.

33%of 5,450 listings are Checked (1,796 of 5,450), 2026-11-11
27%of 5,450 listings are Complete (1,470 of 5,450), 2026-11-11
1,284listings waiting for review, 2026-11-11
Kind of listingCheckedShareCompleteShare
Funding opportunities477 of 2,46819%731 of 2,46830%
Galleries and venues564 of 1,35142%630 of 1,35147%
Services755 of 1,63146%109 of 1,6317%

By type of listing

TypeCheckedShareCompleteShare
Calls for art42 of 18722%44 of 18724%
Fellowships14 of 3837%6 of 3816%
Galleries338 of 86239%156 of 86218%
Grants229 of 1,07421%287 of 1,07427%
Prizes80 of 26630%94 of 26635%
Residencies68 of 26226%39 of 26215%
Scholarships and bursaries44 of 6417%261 of 64141%
Services740 of 1,45351%92 of 1,4536%
Skills and learning15 of 1788%17 of 17810%
Theatres226 of 48946%474 of 48997%

Key facts: how often each is filled

Each type of listing has its own key facts. Counted over the listings of that type, 2026-11-11.

Type: key factFilledRate
Calls for art: Deadline115 of 18761%
Calls for art: Entry fee164 of 18788%
Calls for art: What to send101 of 18754%
Calls for art: Eligibility or where you must live149 of 18780%
Calls for art: Artist fee85 of 18745%
Fellowships: Amount26 of 3868%
Fellowships: Deadline18 of 3847%
Fellowships: Eligibility or where you must live26 of 3868%
Fellowships: What to send13 of 3834%
Fellowships: Application fee31 of 3882%
Galleries: Location682 of 86279%
Galleries: Kind468 of 86254%
Galleries: Art forms shown513 of 86260%
Galleries: Accepts submissions138 of 86216%
Grants: Eligibility or where you must live800 of 1,07474%
Grants: Application fee909 of 1,07485%
Grants: Deadline573 of 1,07453%
Grants: Amount792 of 1,07474%
Grants: What to send491 of 1,07446%
Prizes: Deadline133 of 26650%
Prizes: Amount214 of 26680%
Prizes: Entry fee189 of 26671%
Prizes: Eligibility155 of 26658%
Residencies: Deadline151 of 26258%
Residencies: Costs covered103 of 26239%
Residencies: Length of stay132 of 26250%
Residencies: Eligibility168 of 26264%
Residencies: What to send134 of 26251%
Scholarships and bursaries: Deadline436 of 64168%
Scholarships and bursaries: Amount407 of 64163%
Scholarships and bursaries: Eligibility (school or level)558 of 64187%
Scholarships and bursaries: What to send313 of 64149%
Services: What it does360 of 1,45325%
Services: Based in871 of 1,45360%
Services: Who it is for424 of 1,45329%
Services: Price248 of 1,45317%
Skills and learning: Art forms taught3 of 1782%
Skills and learning: Cost42 of 17824%
Skills and learning: Level or who it is for58 of 17833%
Skills and learning: Where111 of 17862%
Theatres: Art form359 of 48973%
Theatres: Location333 of 48968%
Theatres: Kind266 of 48954%

Where facts came from

The 50,643 facts shown on listings, by how each was last written, 2026-11-11. "before-tracking" means the fact was already there before we began recording how facts were written; it is the share still to be turned into recorded, quoted facts.

MethodFactsShare
rule
read from the page by plain code
28,53956%
template
filled in from a fixed template
240%
ollama
read from the page by our local model (Ollama)
270%
claude
read in a Claude session
6011%
person
entered or approved by a person
00%
before-tracking
already there before we began recording how facts were written
20,72141%
untracked
written by a tool that does not record how yet
940%
ldm
2791%
judged
corrected after a Claude session read the page and judged the old value wrong
3241%
muse-confirm
340%

Waiting for review

1,284 listings in all, 2026-11-11. The parts (a listing can be in more than one):

How well the code reads pages

Capture and accuracy of the code that reads facts from pages: not measured yet. They appear here once the scorer (tools/score_extraction.py) has been run and its result saved.

Thirty-day trend

4 days, 2026-10-13 to 2026-11-11. One row for each day we publish.

On 2026-10-14 we stopped counting services that were removed from the site because they turned out not to be real listings. The site never showed them, but earlier days include them in the total, so the total falls and the share rises on that day while no listing changed.

DateCheckedShareWaiting for review
2026-11-111,796 of 5,45033%1,284
2026-10-153,052 of 5,09360%1,249
2026-10-143,009 of 5,08459%1,249
2026-10-133,806 of 5,09875%1,249

Changes to what Checked counts

How much of the checking needs no LLM

Our check loops read each page with plain rules first. A page counts as checked by code when the rules read, or confirm, enough of its key facts. The rest wait for an LLM. Goal: 75%.

Visits

Visits to this site per week (Monday to Sunday, UTC) and the pages visited most, as counted by GoatCounter. Last collected 2026-11-06.

WeekVisitsTop pages
2026-W44187/ (26), /funding (14), /vault (7), /the-red-head-gallery-get-noticed-2026 (4), /artist-prize-awards (3), /artist-development-program (2), /open-door (2), /writer-in-residence-toronto-public-library (2), search:match:region:NS (2), search:empty (2)
2026-W43127/ (39), /funding (21), /vault (8), /casa-hechale-artist-residency-mexico-city-winter-2026-27 (6), /part-crowd-art-gallery-we-the-north-celebrating-canadian-artists (3), /share (3), /about (3), /community-youth-and-cultural-funding-project-grants (2), /city-of-ottawa-riverside-south-community-centre-library-public-art (2), /available-funding-opportunities-from-the-ontario-government (2)
2026-W42151/ (48), /funding (24), /vault (12), /share (8), /about (5), /terms (3), /arts-across-canada-and-abroad-public-outreach (2), /new-brunswick-scholarships-bursaries (2), /vault/galleries/call-for-nonprofit-and-artist-run-galleries (2), filter:region=BC (2)
2026-W41214/ (90), /funding (36), /vault (20), /share (11), /available-funding-opportunities-from-the-ontario-government (4), /about (3), filter:kind=residency (2), /vault/venues/venables-theatre (2), /vault/galleries/sid-dickens-inc (2), /bursaries-bursaries-graduate-students-association (2)
2026-W40486/ (148), /funding (71), /galleries (19), /vault (13), /share (13), /about (13), filter:as=individual (8), filter:region=BC (6), filter:checked-only=true (6), filter:kind=call-for-art (5)
2026-W3959/ (4), /browse (3), /galleries (2), filter:field=visual (2), /about (2), /resources (2), filter:field=film (1), filter:kind=grant (1), /civitella-ranieri-fellowship (1), /coburn-fellowships (1)
2026-W380none
2026-W370none

Feedback received

Not yet: the weekly feedback counts have not been collected.

How wide the list is

944different funders
1,916listings open to an individual artist who is not a student
8%of listings come from the largest single funder (University of Victoria)
355resource pages waiting for review

How complete each detail is

Community tags

How many listings carry a tag for one of the seven launch communities (dedicated: the program is only for that community; priority: an open program that names it as a priority, encouraged, or a reserved share). Most listings correctly carry none - see Find funding's Community filter.

CommunityDedicated Priority
Indigenous21122
Black029
Newcomer034
2SLGBTQI+167
Deaf043
Disabled381
Francophone25

By kind of funding, and by how we found it

FieldGrants
1074
Fellowships
38
Prizes
266
Residencies
262
Scholarships and bursaries
641
Calls for art
187
Researched
870
Found automatically
1598
Summary99%100%100%99%100%98%98%100%
Art forms98%100%99%98%98%100%100%97%
Who can apply78%63%65%61%92%76%79%78%
Where you must live16%16%20%8%17%3%16%15%
Eligibility88%74%81%77%96%85%83%90%
Amount49%39%56%22%29%24%45%37%
Deadline43%32%30%27%24%63%50%29%
How often52%37%64%40%59%37%52%53%
What to send49%34%35%40%41%66%51%43%
Application fee2%8%27%11%1%24%9%6%
Checked against the funder's page21%37%30%26%7%22%25%16%
What is offered33%18%31%55%30%0%17%39%

"Researched" listings were gathered and written by an AI research assistant, from funders' pages and web searches. "Found automatically" listings were found by software, on funders' own lists of programs or through web searches, and their details were read from the funder's page by code. Most listings of both kinds have not been reviewed by a person yet. Checked against the funder's page: we compared the details shown with the funder's own page, and the page has not changed since. A listing can be Checked while some key details are still not found, and a detail we could not confirm says so. Always confirm on the funder's page before you apply.