Funding to arts and cultural organizations by the city of Toronto, 1990-2008

The scenarios range in scope from the first scenario which sees funding to the Majors and TAC only grow to cover the inflation from 1992 to 2008 to the sixth scenario which would see funding grow at a rate that would cover all of the deficiencies from 1992 to present in addition to covering the expected inflation and population changes, while matching the growth in other sources of revenue. [...] These policy tools all bear in mind the essential nature of the maintenance and growth of the cultural sector in Toronto while ensuring that the budget constraints of the City of Toronto can be accounted for in the decision making process. [...] It focuses on the comparison with the average cultural funding growth of major Canadian municipalities, provinces, and the federal government, the dwindling proportion of funding that the Majors and TAC receive from the City of Toronto, and the neglected effects of population and inflation on cultural funding growth over the past two decades. [...] The comparison between the City of Toronto and the change in average municipal cultural expenditure is the most relevant of all comparisons. [...] An analysis of the share of the revenue provided by the City of Toronto for the Majors and TAC is provided by the following figure.