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Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

What Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada spent in fiscal year 2016-17: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.

Spending, 2016-17

Net spending, 2016-17

$776M

spent by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, less revenues it kept

Share, 2016-17

0.3%

of the net spending of every federal organization

How did Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada spend its budget in 2016-17?

By standard object. Revenues it kept are negative and netted against its spending. Transfer payments are broken into their largest named programs.

Spending by standard object, 2016-17

Transfer payments

Personnel

Professional and special services

Transportation and communications

Information

Rentals

Acquisition of machinery and equipment

Repair and maintenance

Other subsidies and payments

Utilities, materials and supplies

$749M

$21.5M

$2.8M

$1M

$897K

$562K

$309K

$136K

$71K

$55K

Total: $776M.

Workforce, 2016-17

Full-time equivalents

228

the actual FTEs of its programs, as GC InfoBase reports them

Personnel spending

$21.5M

salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)

Personnel spending per FTE

$94K

personnel spending divided by full-time equivalents

A full-time equivalent is a measure of employment, not a headcount: two half-time employees are one FTE. Personnel spending includes benefits and pension contributions, so per FTE it is not an average salary.

Transfer payment programs, 2016-17

The grants, contributions and other transfers Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada paid, program by program: $749M in all, against $749M for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).

Research Support FundPaymentsGrant$368,440,841
Grants and ScholarshipsPaymentsGrant$278,818,799
Canada Graduate ScholarshipsPaymentsGrant$68,262,198
Networks of Centres of ExcellencePaymentsGrant$8,911,000
Vanier Canada Graduate ScholarshipsPaymentsGrant$8,231,943
Canada First Research Excellence FundPaymentsGrant$7,398,817
Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and ResearchPaymentsGrant$5,711,093
Business-Led Networks of Centres of ExcellencePaymentsGrant$1,477,000
Canada Excellence Research ChairsPaymentsGrant$1,250,000
College and Community Innovation ProgramPaymentsGrant$174,612
10 programs$748,676,303

Contracts of $10,000 and under

Contracts this small are not published one by one: Treasury Board publishes each organization's totals, by calendar year, for contracts of $10,000 and under (their original value and their amendments) and for acquisition card purchases. They are the value of contracts entered into, not what was paid in a fiscal year, so they are not part of the net expenditure above, and the years are calendar years.

Calendar yearGoodsServicesConstructionAcquisition cardsTotal
2025$122,777$227,011$0$141,275$491,063
2024$158,650$296,106$0$135,906$590,662
2023$206,017$376,920$0$129,615$712,552
2021$8,827$129,636$0$82,372$220,835
2017$44,258$45,401$0$132,442$222,101

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s share of federal net spending