Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
What Social Sciences and Humanities 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
$1.33B
spent by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, less revenues it kept
Share, 2025-26
0.3%
of the net spending of every federal organization
How did Social Sciences and Humanities 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
Information
Transportation and communications
Repair and maintenance
Other subsidies and payments
Utilities, materials and supplies
$1.27B
$50.2M
$2.2M
$1.2M
$827K
$765K
$731K
$64K
$32K
$23K
Total: $1.33B.
Workforce, 2025-26
Personnel spending
$50.2M
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 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada paid, program by program: $1.27B in all, against $1.27B for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).
| Research Support FundPayments | Grant | $481,894,585 |
| Grants and ScholarshipsPayments | Grant | $415,005,918 |
| New Frontiers in Research FundPayments | Grant | $121,161,897 |
| Canada Graduate ScholarshipsPayments | Grant | $89,906,936 |
| Canada Biomedical Research FundPayments | Grant | $71,880,474 |
| Canada First Research Excellence FundPayments | Grant | $59,794,286 |
| College and Community Innovation ProgramPayments | Grant | $13,710,716 |
| Vanier Canada Graduate ScholarshipsPayments | Grant | $8,300,000 |
| Canada Excellence Research ChairsPayments | Grant | $6,815,457 |
| Indigenous Research CapacityPayments | Grant | $1,646,071 |
| Canada 150 Research ChairsPayments | Grant | $1,137,500 |
| Mobilizing Insights in Defence and Security Grant programPayments | Grant | $602,000 |
| 12 programs | $1,271,855,840 | |
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 | $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
Other organizations in Innovation, Science and Economic Development
- Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
- Prairies Economic Development Canada
- National Research Council Canada
- Natural Sciences and Engineering 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.
