Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
What Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada spent in fiscal year 2024-25: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.
Reports through Innovation, Science and Industry; the overview shows it in that ministry.
Spending, 2024-25
Net spending, 2024-25
$1.47B
spent by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, less revenues it kept
Share, 2024-25
0.3%
of the net spending of every federal organization
How did Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada spend its budget in 2024-25?
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, 2024-25
Transfer payments
Personnel
Professional and special services
Acquisition of machinery and equipment
Rentals
Transportation and communications
Information
Acquisition of land, buildings and works
Repair and maintenance
Utilities, materials and supplies
Other subsidies and payments
$1.4B
$62.5M
$4.2M
$2M
$1.6M
$1.1M
$477K
$190K
$81K
$36K
$6K
Total: $1.47B.
Spending by program, 2024-25
The same net spending by program, as GC InfoBase reports program actuals: $1.47B in all. Select a program for its history, plans and results.
$790M
$453M
$201M
$7.7M
$5.2M
$3.5M
$2.4M
$1.9M
$1.6M
$1.1M
$797K
$478K
-$6K
Workforce, 2024-25
Full-time equivalents
509
the actual FTEs of its programs, as GC InfoBase reports them
Personnel spending
$62.5M
salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)
Personnel spending per FTE
$123K
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, 2024-25
The grants, contributions and other transfers Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada paid, program by program: $1.4B in all, against $1.4B for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).
| Grants and ScholarshipsPayments | Grant | $1,100,448,230 |
| College and Community Innovation ProgramPayments | Grant | $103,995,890 |
| Canada First Research Excellence FundPayments | Grant | $78,586,293 |
| Canada Graduate ScholarshipsPayments | Grant | $64,483,584 |
| Canada Excellence Research ChairsPayments | Grant | $24,368,131 |
| Lab-to-MarketPayments | Grant | $8,386,426 |
| Vanier Canada Graduate ScholarshipsPayments | Grant | $8,341,668 |
| Canada 150 Research ChairsPayments | Grant | $7,750,000 |
| 8 programs | $1,396,360,222 | |
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 year | Goods | Services | Construction | Acquisition cards | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $130,524 | $183,052 | $0 | $367,309 | $680,885 |
| 2024 | $159,522 | $155,846 | $0 | $286,442 | $601,810 |
| 2022 | $128,247 | $152,840 | $0 | $292,781 | $573,867 |
| 2021 | $118,908 | $159,675 | $0 | $297,582 | $576,166 |
| 2017 | $192,675 | $207,224 | $0 | $422,483 | $822,383 |
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s share of federal net spending
Other organizations in Innovation, Science and Industry
- Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
- Prairies Economic Development Canada
- National Research Council Canada
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
- Statistics Canada
- Canadian Space Agency
- Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
- Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
- Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
- Pacific Economic Development Agency of Canada
- Destination Canada
- Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency
- Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario
- Standards Council of Canada
- Copyright Board Canada
Sources
- Public Accounts of Canada 2025, Volume II: Ministerial expenditures by standard object (Table 3)
- Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II: Transfer payments (multi-year open data)
- GC InfoBase – Federal Programs – Actual and Planned Spending (programs_spending.csv)
- GC InfoBase – Federal Programs – Actual and Planned Employees (programs_ftes.csv)
- Proactive Publication - Contracts: Aggregated Total - Contracts $10K and under
Department figures are net expenditure (Public Accounts, Volume II), which doesn’t add up to the accrual expenses of the overview’s headline. See the methodology.
