Federal spending by Canadian Institutes of Health Research

44,760 records totalling $16,856,641,799.63 CAD, from official Government of Canada open data.

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Where the money flows

Contracting

$107.3M

across 1,596 contracts over $10k

24.0%

of contract dollars awarded without competition (637 contracts)

79.2%

of contracts with known bid counts received one bid or fewer (432 reported)

"Without competition" counts solicitation codes TN (non-competitive) and AC (Advance Contract Award Notice). Non-competitive awards are legal and sometimes required; the rate is context, not a judgment.

Planned vs. actual spending

What Parliament authorised this organization to spend versus what it actually spent, across all its votes. Source: Public Accounts of Canada (via GC InfoBase). This covers the organization's entire budget, not just the grants and contracts listed below.

Fiscal year Authorised Spent Used
2024-2025 $1,425,650,302 $1,424,372,236 99.9%
2023-2024 $1,376,632,495 $1,348,456,197 98.0%
2022-2023 $1,362,336,995 $1,336,911,908 98.1%
2021-2022 $1,392,863,725 $1,384,299,264 99.4%
2020-2021 $1,619,428,462 $1,503,461,560 92.8%
2019-2020 $1,205,650,152 $1,202,050,854 99.7%
2018-2019 $1,158,962,199 $1,150,927,127 99.3%
2017-2018 $1,098,368,793 $1,097,161,184 99.9%
2016-2017 $1,083,194,536 $1,081,330,344 99.8%
2015-2016 $1,029,250,394 $1,026,378,153 99.7%

Did it deliver? (2024-2025 results report)

Every department sets measurable performance targets and reports against them. Source: Departmental Results Reports via GC InfoBase — the department's own self-reported scorecard.

16

of 17 targets met

1

targets not met

0

not yet measurable or unavailable

See missed targets

  • Number of research projects funded jointly by CIHR and (an) international partner(s)

    Target: — · Actual: 46.0

Mihailidis, Alex $6,434,500.00
Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada
Research in Priority Areas
FY 2019-2020
Canada

The Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) is a federal government initiative which funds partnerships between universities, industry, government and not-for-profit organizations to create large-scal...

Ctre hospitalier universitaire, Sainte-Justine $6,395,679.00
Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada
Research in Priority Areas
FY 2025-2026
Canada

The Institute Support Grant is provided to the host institution at which the Institute’s Scientific Director is affiliated to sustain the Institute’s strategic development or Institute-led initiatives...

VALLIANT, John F $6,366,667.00
Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada
FY 2012-2013
Canada

Centre for Probe Development and Commercialization (CPDC)

GOSSELIN, Diane $6,364,505.00
Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada
FY 2012-2013
Canada

BL - NCE - Consortium québecois sur la découverte du médicament

Lowary, Todd L $6,213,000.00
Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada
Research in Priority Areas
FY 2019-2020
Canada

The Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) is a federal government initiative which funds partnerships between universities, industry, government and not-for-profit organizations to create large-scal...

Greenblatt, Jack F $6,135,843.00
Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada
FY 2017-2018
Canada

Human gene expression regulatory mechanisms

Mak, Tak W $6,074,686.00
Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada
FY 2015-2016
Canada

Dissection of Tumorigenic and Inflammatory Signaling Pathways to Identify Novel Therapeutic Approaches

Andrews, Brenda J $6,059,699.00
Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada
FY 2015-2016
Canada

Systems Genetics & Cell Biology: Mapping Biological Pathways in the Eukaryotic Cell

MARRA, Marco A $6,000,000.00
Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada
FY 2011-2012
Canada

Centre for Epigenome Mapping Technologies

Lamb, Robert N $6,000,000.00
Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada
FY 2016-2017
Canada

Canadian Light Source - CIHR in Partnership with NSERC

May, Michael H $6,000,000.00
Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada
FY 2017-2018
Canada

Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine

Cohen, Eric A $6,000,000.00
Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada
Research in Priority Areas
FY 2019-2020
Canada

Transform HIV biomedical and clinical research in Canada into a collaborative, interdisciplinary model of knowledge creation and application through the funding of innovative research programs; create...

Singh, Baljit $6,000,000.00
Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada
Research in Priority Areas
FY 2020-2021
Canada

Directed grant to the Canadian Light Source approved by the President in September 2020.

Fowler, Robert A $6,000,000.00
Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada
Research in Priority Areas
FY 2020-2021
Canada

Applications must ensure relevance to all of the following objectives: • Establish central coordination and collaboration activities with existing clinical trials groups/networks to increase the avai...

Halperin, Scott A $6,000,000.00
Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada
Research in Priority Areas
FY 2022-2023
Canada

The objectives of the extension are aligned with the Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN) 2016 and the CIRN: COVID-19 Vaccine Readiness are: • To maintain the baseline activities of CIRN. Th...

Dennis, Cindy-Lee E $6,000,000.00
Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada
Research in Priority Areas
FY 2026-2027
Canada

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to: • Develop a pan-Canadian LHS network for PMH that integrates research, practice, and care to strengthen the implementation of evidence-b...

Rourke, Sean B $5,999,999.00
Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada
Research in Priority Areas
FY 2019-2020
Canada

Transform HIV biomedical and clinical research in Canada into a collaborative, interdisciplinary model of knowledge creation and application through the funding of innovative research programs; create...

Wherrett, Diane K $5,999,552.00
Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada
Research in Priority Areas
FY 2023-2024
Canada

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to: • Establish an interdisciplinary, inter-jurisdictional, and inter-sectoral National Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) Screening Research Consortium t...

LATHROP, Mark $5,985,000.00
Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada
FY 2011-2012
Canada

Multidimensional Epigenomics Mapping Centre (EMC) at McGill

Boone, Charles M $5,962,958.00
Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada
FY 2015-2016
Canada

Principles of Global Genetic Interaction Networks

Ouellette, Marc $5,917,479.00
Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada
Investigator-Initiated Research
FY 2019-2020
Canada

The Foundation Grant program is designed to contribute to a sustainable foundation of established health research leaders, by providing long-term support for the pursuit of innovative and high-impact...

TRABOULSEE, Anthony $5,897,565.00
Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada
FY 2012-2013
Canada

Phase I/II Interventional Clinical Trial of Balloon Venoplasty for Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency in Multiple Sclerosis Patients

Yong, Voon W $5,870,649.00
Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada
Investigator-Initiated Research
FY 2019-2020
Canada

The Foundation Grant program is designed to contribute to a sustainable foundation of established health research leaders, by providing long-term support for the pursuit of innovative and high-impact...

Turecki, Gustavo X $5,869,377.00
Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada
FY 2016-2017
Canada

Characterizing the depressed and suicidal brain through a multidisciplinary approach

Hughes, Timothy R $5,860,205.00
Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada
FY 2016-2017
Canada

Decoding gene regulation