National Film Board
What National Film Board spent in fiscal year 2025-26: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.
Reports through Canadian Heritage; the overview shows it in that ministry.
Spending, 2025-26
Net spending, 2025-26
$77.3M
spent by National Film Board, less revenues it kept
Share, 2025-26
0.0%
of the net spending of every federal organization
How did National Film Board spend its budget in 2025-26?
By standard object. Revenues it kept are negative and netted against its spending.
Spending by standard object, 2025-26
Personnel
Professional and special services
Rentals
Transportation and communications
Information
Acquisition of machinery and equipment
Repair and maintenance
Utilities, materials and supplies
Other subsidies and payments
External revenues
$46.5M
$14.6M
$11.3M
$2.9M
$2.4M
$2.3M
$540K
$267K
$89K
-$3.6M
Total: $77.3M.
Workforce, 2025-26
Personnel spending
$46.5M
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.
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 | $651,410 | $6,750,751 | $0 | $837,780 | $8,239,940 |
| 2024 | $524,534 | $5,795,341 | $41,614 | $1,043,886 | $7,405,375 |
| 2023 | $438,785 | $6,106,342 | $13,996 | $1,065,073 | $7,624,195 |
| 2022 | $500,298 | $7,151,753 | $2,225 | $1,028,677 | $8,682,953 |
| 2021 | $743,537 | $6,925,772 | $11,253 | $951,623 | $8,632,186 |
| 2020 | $585,715 | $5,924,790 | $2,445 | $888,693 | $7,401,643 |
| 2019 | $862,554 | $5,860,095 | $35,084 | $701,252 | $7,458,986 |
| 2018 | $718,413 | $7,890,371 | $18,793 | $637,859 | $9,265,436 |
| 2017 | $746,138 | $6,552,026 | $0 | $563,453 | $7,861,617 |
National Film Board’s share of federal net spending
Other organizations in Canadian Heritage
- Canadian Heritage
- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Canada Council for the Arts
- Library and Archives Canada
- Telefilm Canada
- Canadian Museum of History
- National Arts Centre Corporation
- National Gallery of Canada
- National Museum of Science and Technology
- Canadian Museum of Nature
- Canadian Museum for Human Rights
- The National Battlefields Commission
- Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
- Canadian Race Relations Foundation
- Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21
Sources
- Public Accounts of Canada 2026, Volume II: Ministerial expenditures by standard object (Table 3)
- 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.
