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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 2017-18: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.

Spending, 2017-18

Net spending, 2017-18

$784M

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

Share, 2017-18

0.3%

of the net spending of every federal organization

How did Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada spend its budget in 2017-18?

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, 2017-18

Transfer payments

Personnel

Professional and special services

Transportation and communications

Information

Rentals

Acquisition of machinery and equipment

Repair and maintenance

Utilities, materials and supplies

Other subsidies and payments

Acquisition of land, buildings and works

$757M

$21.7M

$2.7M

$998K

$815K

$495K

$415K

$105K

$54K

$45K

$18K

Total: $784M.

Workforce, 2017-18

Full-time equivalents

229

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

Personnel spending

$21.7M

salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)

Personnel spending per FTE

$95K

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, 2017-18

The grants, contributions and other transfers Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada paid, program by program: $757M in all, against $757M for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).

Research Support FundPaymentsGrant$368,456,473
Grants and ScholarshipsPaymentsGrant$276,498,522
Canada Graduate ScholarshipsPaymentsGrant$68,820,804
Canada First Research Excellence FundPaymentsGrant$12,927,180
Networks of Centres of ExcellencePaymentsGrant$8,770,000
Vanier Canada Graduate ScholarshipsPaymentsGrant$8,234,722
Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and ResearchPaymentsGrant$4,945,629
College and Community Innovation ProgramPaymentsGrant$4,514,546
Business-Led Networks of Centres of ExcellencePaymentsGrant$1,494,000
Canada Excellence Research ChairsPaymentsGrant$1,400,000
Canada 150 Research ChairsPaymentsGrant$573,797
11 programs$756,635,673

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