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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 2020-21: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.

Spending, 2020-21

Net spending, 2020-21

$1.42B

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

Share, 2020-21

0.3%

of the net spending of every federal organization

How did Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada spend its budget in 2020-21?

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, 2020-21

Transfer payments

Personnel

Professional and special services

Acquisition of machinery and equipment

Rentals

Information

Other subsidies and payments

Transportation and communications

Repair and maintenance

Utilities, materials and supplies

$1.38B

$31.6M

$4.4M

$1.6M

$830K

$751K

$338K

$283K

$75K

$45K

Total: $1.42B.

Workforce, 2020-21

Full-time equivalents

310

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

Personnel spending

$31.6M

salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)

Personnel spending per FTE

$102K

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, 2020-21

The grants, contributions and other transfers Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada paid, program by program: $1.38B in all, against $1.38B for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).

Canada Research Continuity Emergency FundPaymentsGrant$434,458,507
Research Support FundPaymentsGrant$414,254,894
Grants and ScholarshipsPaymentsGrant$359,509,196
Canada Graduate ScholarshipsPaymentsGrant$77,382,865
Tri-Agency FundPaymentsGrant$42,180,582
Canada First Research Excellence FundPaymentsGrant$18,455,544
Vanier Canada Graduate ScholarshipsPaymentsGrant$9,133,346
Networks of Centres of ExcellencePaymentsGrant$7,757,016
College and Community Innovation ProgramPaymentsGrant$6,543,482
Canada Excellence Research ChairsPaymentsGrant$2,800,000
Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and ResearchPaymentsGrant$2,654,005
Canada 150 Research ChairsPaymentsGrant$2,100,000
Business-Led Networks of Centres of ExcellencePaymentsGrant$1,363,000
Mobilizing Insights in Defence and Security Grant programPaymentsGrant$602,500
14 programs$1,379,194,937

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