Federal spending by National Research Council Canada

65,866 records totalling $10,357,894,585.31 CAD, from official Government of Canada open data.

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Where the money flows

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 $1,934,511,287 $1,708,014,071 88.3%
2023-2024 $1,819,033,002 $1,525,980,654 83.9%
2022-2023 $1,728,823,008 $1,470,756,978 85.1%
2021-2022 $1,773,220,811 $1,436,309,315 81.0%
2020-2021 $1,976,688,437 $1,648,655,313 83.4%
2019-2020 $1,366,591,136 $1,214,601,865 88.9%
2018-2019 $1,445,828,252 $1,145,203,852 79.2%
2017-2018 $1,286,842,890 $1,016,523,436 79.0%
2016-2017 $1,307,620,850 $1,048,740,465 80.2%
2015-2016 $1,143,964,849 $945,077,595 82.6%

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.

51

of 70 targets met

19

targets not met

0

not yet measurable or unavailable

See missed targets

  • Number of patents issued to the NRC

    Target: — · Actual: 99.0

  • Revenue earned from clients and collaborators

    Target: — · Actual: 69500000.0

  • Revenue earned from all external research clients

    Target: — · Actual: 24200000.0

  • Citation score of Aquatic and Crop Resource Development generated publications relative to world average

    Target: — · Actual: 1.12

  • Number of patent applications filed

    Target: — · Actual: 1.0

TRIUMF $399,145,000.00
National Research Council Canada | Conseil national de recherches Canada
Contribution to TRIUMF (Canada’s National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics)
FY 2025-2026
Canada

NRC provides contribution funding for the operation, mantenance and enhancement of the Facility. The TRIUMF facility houses a particle accelerator, reffered to as a cyclotron, that produces beams of...

TRIUMF $300,413,690.00
National Research Council Canada | Conseil national de recherches Canada
Contribution to TRIUMF (Canada’s National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics)
FY 2015-2016
Canada

NRC provides contribution funding for the operation, mantenance and enhancement of the Facility. The TRIUMF facility houses a particle accelerator, reffered to as a cyclotron, that produces beams of...

TRIUMF $271,521,690.00
National Research Council Canada | Conseil national de recherches Canada
Contribution to TRIUMF (Canada’s National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics)
FY 2015-2016
Canada

NRC provides contribution funding for the operation, mantenance and enhancement of the Facility. The TRIUMF facility houses a particle accelerator, reffered to as a cyclotron, that produces beams of...

TRIUMF $269,504,000.00
National Research Council Canada | Conseil national de recherches Canada
FY 2015-2016
Canada
TRIUMF $268,397,855.00
National Research Council Canada | Conseil national de recherches Canada
Contribution to TRIUMF (Canada’s National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics)
FY 2020-2021
Canada

NRC provides contribution funding for the operation, mantenance and enhancement of the Facility. The TRIUMF facility houses a particle accelerator, reffered to as a cyclotron, that produces beams of...

TRIUMF Inc. $268,397,855.00
National Research Council Canada | Conseil national de recherches Canada
Contribution to TRIUMF (Canada’s National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics)
FY 2020-2021
Canada

NRC provides contribution funding for the operation, mantenance and enhancement of the Facility. The TRIUMF facility houses a particle accelerator, reffered to as a cyclotron, that produces beams of...

TRIUMF $222,300,000.00
National Research Council Canada | Conseil national de recherches Canada
FY 2010-2011
Canada
BIOLOGICS MANUFACTURING CENTRE (BMC) INC. $172,791,000.00
National Research Council Canada | Conseil national de recherches Canada
Biologics Manufacturing Centre
FY 2022-2023
Canada

NRC provides contribution funding for the maintenance and operation of the BMC facility in a constant Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)-readiness state to respond to pandemic and other health emergenc...

SKA Organization $127,400,324.00
National Research Council Canada | Conseil national de recherches Canada
International Astronomical Observatories Program
FY 2024-2025
United Kingdom

Canada's contribution to the SKA Organisation for the pre-construction design phase of the Square Kilometre Array Observatory

The National Science Foundation of the United States of America $86,000,000.00
National Research Council Canada | Conseil national de recherches Canada
International Astronomical Observatories Program
FY 2021-2022
United States

The Gemini Facilities consist of two identical optical-infrared telescopes with a primary mirror diameter of 8m, associated instruments and equipment, anciliary buildings, and support services related...

DIGITAL RESEARCH ALLIANCE OF CANADA $34,700,000.00
National Research Council Canada | Conseil national de recherches Canada
International Astronomical Observatories Program
FY 2023-2024
Canada

Facilitate the establishment of a Canadian regional centre that provides Canadian astronomers access to data from the SKA and other astronomy facilities. Provide dedicated storage, computing capacity...

TRIUMF $19,277,000.00
National Research Council Canada | Conseil national de recherches Canada
FY 2010-2011
Canada
TRIUMF $19,277,000.00
National Research Council Canada | Conseil national de recherches Canada
FY 2015-2016
Canada
The National Science Foundation of the United States of America $13,068,000.00
National Research Council Canada | Conseil national de recherches Canada
International Astronomical Observatories Program
FY 2020-2021
United States

ALMA is a large reconfigurable array of 66 parabolic-dish radio astronomy telescopes. The facility includes associated instruments and equipment, ancillary buildings, and support services related to t...

Ryerson University $11,886,817.00
National Research Council Canada | Conseil national de recherches Canada
Canada Accelerator and Incubator Program
FY 2014-2015
Canada

The group will undertake a national scope joint research driven incubator project, to amplify the universities’ existing incubator facilities and to create an expansive technology, company and job-cre...

RYERSON UNIVERSITY $11,849,091.00
National Research Council Canada | Conseil national de recherches Canada
FY 2014-2015
Canada
RYERSON UNIVERSITY $10,662,891.00
National Research Council Canada | Conseil national de recherches Canada
FY 2014-2015
Canada
Invest Ottawa (2013) $10,045,559.00
National Research Council Canada | Conseil national de recherches Canada
Canada Accelerator and Incubator Program
FY 2014-2015
Canada

The objective of the project is to build an integrated incubation and acceleration program, which will provide high potential SMEs from Eastern Ontario with a graduated pathway to market. The project...

Entos Pharmaceuticals Inc. $10,000,000.00
National Research Council Canada | Conseil national de recherches Canada
Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
FY 2020-2021
Canada

Entos has developed Covigenix VAX-001, a DNA Proteo-Lipid Vehicle (PLV) vaccine intended for the prevention of COVID-19 infection by SARS-CoV-2. In this project, Entos will advance the VAX-001 vaccine...

Laurent Pharmaceuticals Inc. $10,000,000.00
National Research Council Canada | Conseil national de recherches Canada
Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
FY 2020-2021
Canada

Clinical development of LAU-7b antiviral and inflammation-controlling therapy for COVID-19 infection.