Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
What Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada spent in fiscal year 2025-26: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.
Reports through Innovation, Science and Economic Development; the overview shows it in that ministry.
Spending, 2025-26
Net spending, 2025-26
$1.51B
spent by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, less revenues it kept
Share, 2025-26
0.3%
of the net spending of every federal organization
How did Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada 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
Acquisition of machinery and equipment
Rentals
Transportation and communications
Information
Repair and maintenance
Utilities, materials and supplies
Other subsidies and payments
$1.43B
$68M
$6.3M
$2.5M
$1.3M
$828K
$473K
$83K
$47K
$20K
Total: $1.51B.
Workforce, 2025-26
Personnel spending
$68M
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 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada paid, program by program: $1.43B in all, against $1.43B for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).
| Grants and ScholarshipsPayments | Grant | $1,133,909,379 |
| College and Community Innovation ProgramPayments | Grant | $95,196,594 |
| Canada First Research Excellence FundPayments | Grant | $78,627,853 |
| Canada Graduate ScholarshipsPayments | Grant | $64,489,818 |
| Canada Excellence Research ChairsPayments | Grant | $30,207,332 |
| Lab-to-MarketPayments | Grant | $13,443,137 |
| Vanier Canada Graduate ScholarshipsPayments | Grant | $8,258,333 |
| Canada 150 Research ChairsPayments | Grant | $1,600,000 |
| 8 programs | $1,425,732,446 | |
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 Economic Development
- Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
- Prairies Economic Development Canada
- National Research Council Canada
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
- Canadian Space Agency
- Statistics Canada
- Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
- Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
- 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 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.
