Canadian Institutes of Health Research
What Canadian Institutes of Health Research spent in fiscal year 2025-26: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.
Reports through Health; the overview shows it in that ministry.
Spending, 2025-26
Net spending, 2025-26
$1.37B
spent by Canadian Institutes of Health Research, less revenues it kept
Share, 2025-26
0.3%
of the net spending of every federal organization
How did Canadian Institutes of Health Research spend its budget in 2025-26?
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, 2025-26
Transfer payments
Personnel
Professional and special services
Rentals
Transportation and communications
Information
Acquisition of machinery and equipment
Repair and maintenance
Other subsidies and payments
Utilities, materials and supplies
$1.29B
$72M
$4.3M
$2.9M
$818K
$689K
$681K
$235K
$81K
$42K
Total: $1.37B.
Workforce, 2025-26
Personnel spending
$72M
salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)
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, 2025-26
The grants, contributions and other transfers Canadian Institutes of Health Research paid, program by program: $1.29B in all, against $1.29B for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).
| Grants for research projects and personnel supportPayments | Grant | $1,133,242,623 |
| Canada First Research Excellence FundPayments | Grant | $58,438,027 |
| Canada Graduate ScholarshipsPayments | Grant | $53,473,305 |
| Canada Excellence Research ChairsPayments | Grant | $17,177,209 |
| Institute support grantsPayments | Grant | $16,619,048 |
| Vanier Canada Graduate ScholarshipsPayments | Grant | $8,341,666 |
| College and Community Innovation ProgramPayments | Grant | $3,837,181 |
| Canada 150 Research ChairsPayments | Grant | $436,175 |
| 8 programs | $1,291,565,234 | |
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 | $68,189 | $316,959 | $0 | $374,689 | $759,836 |
| 2024 | $84,544 | $239,131 | $0 | $210,997 | $534,672 |
| 2023 | $153,708 | $493,381 | $0 | $612,910 | $1,259,999 |
| 2022 | $100,131 | $215,472 | $0 | $603,567 | $919,170 |
| 2021 | $135,743 | $112,813 | $0 | $504,294 | $752,850 |
| 2020 | $158,178 | $151,673 | $0 | $597,840 | $907,691 |
| 2019 | $212,644 | $602,639 | $0 | $1,061,764 | $1,877,046 |
| 2018 | $215,599 | $494,446 | $0 | $955,161 | $1,665,206 |
| 2017 | $223,481 | $533,118 | $0 | $1,107,805 | $1,864,404 |
| 2016 | $200,972 | $466,364 | $0 | $858,202 | $1,525,538 |
Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s share of federal net spending
Other organizations in Health
Sources
- Public Accounts of Canada 2026, Volume II: Ministerial expenditures by standard object (Table 3)
- Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II: Transfer payments (multi-year open data)
- 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.
