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Polar Knowledge Canada

What Polar Knowledge Canada spent in fiscal year 2019-20: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.

Spending, 2019-20

Net spending, 2019-20

$30.6M

spent by Polar Knowledge Canada, less revenues it kept

Share, 2019-20

0.0%

of the net spending of every federal organization

How did Polar Knowledge Canada spend its budget in 2019-20?

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, 2019-20

Personnel

Transfer payments

Transportation and communications

Professional and special services

Repair and maintenance

Utilities, materials and supplies

Rentals

Information

Acquisition of machinery and equipment

Other subsidies and payments

$9.2M

$6.9M

$4.2M

$3.2M

$2.4M

$1.9M

$1.1M

$800K

$742K

$82K

Total: $30.6M.

Spending by program, 2019-20

The same net spending by program, as GC InfoBase reports program actuals: $30.6M in all. Select a program for its history, plans and results.

Workforce, 2019-20

Full-time equivalents

78

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

Personnel spending

$9.2M

salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)

Personnel spending per FTE

$118K

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, 2019-20

The grants, contributions and other transfers Polar Knowledge Canada paid, program by program: $6.9M in all, against $6.9M for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).

Contributions to support the advancement of Northern Science and TechnologyPaymentsContribution$5,122,570
Grants to individuals, organizations, associations and institutions to support research and activities relating to the polar regionsPaymentsGrant$1,739,800
Grants to support the advancement of Northern Science and TechnologyPaymentsGrant$10,000
3 programs$6,872,370

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
2023$18,763$21,477$0$460,023$500,263
2022$15,851$41,182$0$1,223,581$1,280,614

Polar Knowledge Canada’s share of federal net spending

Other organizations in Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs