Federal spending by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

104,723 records totalling $10,214,283,936.95 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 $1,481,256,930 $1,468,578,249 99.1%
2023-2024 $1,388,195,200 $1,383,259,380 99.6%
2022-2023 $1,387,535,359 $1,381,528,634 99.6%
2021-2022 $1,429,243,194 $1,413,274,920 98.9%
2020-2021 $1,493,439,354 $1,488,475,254 99.7%
2019-2020 $1,364,527,935 $1,359,365,352 99.6%
2018-2019 $1,334,869,447 $1,330,149,905 99.6%
2017-2018 $1,223,443,633 $1,219,141,888 99.6%
2016-2017 $1,195,069,597 $1,191,260,893 99.7%
2015-2016 $1,120,207,107 $1,115,653,194 99.6%

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.

16

of 18 targets met

2

targets not met

0

not yet measurable or unavailable

See missed targets

  • Percentage of funded research involving international collaborations

    Target: — · Actual: 45.0

  • Number of youth that participated in PromoScience funded activities

    Target: — · Actual: 583654.0

Lamarre, Vincent $10,009,024.00
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada
Research Partnerships
FY 2022-2023
Canada

Provide Canadian colleges with flexible funding to acquire necessary resources to address applied research priorities in industry, health, and not-for-profit community-based organizations. 

Mirtchev, Theo $10,009,024.00
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada
Research Partnerships
FY 2022-2023
Canada

Provide Canadian colleges with flexible funding to acquire necessary resources to address applied research priorities in industry, health, and not-for-profit community-based organizations. 

Demers, Martin $10,009,024.00
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada
Research Partnerships
FY 2022-2023
Canada

Provide Canadian colleges with flexible funding to acquire necessary resources to address applied research priorities in industry, health, and not-for-profit community-based organizations. 

Deslauriers, Sandra $10,009,024.00
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada
Research Partnerships
FY 2022-2023
Canada

Provide Canadian colleges with flexible funding to acquire necessary resources to address applied research priorities in industry, health, and not-for-profit community-based organizations. 

Blum, Susan $10,009,024.00
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada
Research Partnerships
FY 2022-2023
Canada

Provide Canadian colleges with flexible funding to acquire necessary resources to address applied research priorities in industry, health, and not-for-profit community-based organizations. 

Muscedere, John (Queen’s University) $9,452,157.00
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada
Networks of Centres of Excellence - Group
FY 2017-2018
Canada
Svensson, Carl (University of Guelph) $8,350,000.00
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada
Subatomic Physics Envelope - Project
FY 2017-2018
Canada
Roney, Michael $8,100,000.00
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada
Discovery Research
FY 2019-2020
Canada

The objective of the Subatomic Physics Major Resources Support (SAP-MRS) Program is to facilitate the effective access by Canadian academic researchers, working in the field of subatomic physics, to m...

Wagner-Riddle, Claudia $7,997,753.00
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada
Research Partnerships
FY 2024-2025
Canada

Alliance grants encourage university researchers to collaborate with partner organizations, which can be from the private, public or not-for-profit sectors. These grants support research projects led...

Guan, Leluo $7,899,200.00
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada
Research Partnerships
FY 2024-2025
Canada

Alliance grants encourage university researchers to collaborate with partner organizations, which can be from the private, public or not-for-profit sectors. These grants support research projects led...

Entz, Martin $7,644,337.00
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada
Research Partnerships
FY 2024-2025
Canada

Alliance grants encourage university researchers to collaborate with partner organizations, which can be from the private, public or not-for-profit sectors. These grants support research projects led...

Krauss, Carsten $7,250,000.00
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada
Discovery Research
FY 2025-2026
Canada

The objective of the Subatomic Physics Major Resources Support (SAP-MRS) Program is to facilitate the effective access by Canadian academic researchers, working in the field of subatomic physics, to m...

Perez Lopez, Edel $7,098,990.00
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada
Research Partnerships
FY 2024-2025
Canada

Alliance grants encourage university researchers to collaborate with partner organizations, which can be from the private, public or not-for-profit sectors. These grants support research projects led...

Farooque, Aitazaz Ahsan $6,924,435.00
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada
Research Partnerships
FY 2024-2025
Canada

Alliance grants encourage university researchers to collaborate with partner organizations, which can be from the private, public or not-for-profit sectors. These grants support research projects led...

Heung, Brandon $6,901,406.00
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada
Research Partnerships
FY 2024-2025
Canada

Alliance grants encourage university researchers to collaborate with partner organizations, which can be from the private, public or not-for-profit sectors. These grants support research projects led...

Svensson, Carl $6,750,000.00
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada
Discovery Research
FY 2026-2027
Canada

The Subatomic Physics (SAP) Discovery Grants Program assists in promoting and maintaining a diversified base of high-quality research capability in the natural sciences and engineering in Canadian uni...

Sargent, Risa $6,509,527.00
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada
Research Partnerships
FY 2024-2025
Canada

Alliance grants encourage university researchers to collaborate with partner organizations, which can be from the private, public or not-for-profit sectors. These grants support research projects led...

Svensson, Carl $6,500,000.00
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada
Discovery Research
FY 2023-2024
Canada

The Subatomic Physics (SAP) Discovery Grants Program assists in promoting and maintaining a diversified base of high-quality research capability in the natural sciences and engineering in Canadian uni...

Trainor, Laurel $6,249,075.00
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada
Discovery Research
FY 2022-2023
Canada

Discovery Horizons grants support investigator-initiated individual and team projects that broadly integrate or transcend disciplines to advance knowledge in the natural sciences and engineering

Bassim, Nabil $6,125,000.00
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada
Research Partnerships
FY 2025-2026
Canada

Alliance grants encourage university researchers to collaborate with partner organizations, which can be from the private, public or not-for-profit sectors. These grants support research projects led...

Pietroniro, Alain $6,000,000.00
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada
Research Partnerships
FY 2024-2025
Canada

Alliance grants encourage university researchers to collaborate with partner organizations, which can be from the private, public or not-for-profit sectors. These grants support research projects led...

Côté, Diane (MEDTEQ) $5,850,000.00
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada
Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and Research - Group
FY 2017-2018
Canada
Leclerc, Mario $5,680,000.00
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada
Research Partnerships
FY 2018-2019
Canada

The Strategic Network Grants Program (SNG) aims to increase research and training in targeted areas that could strongly enhance Canada’s economy, society and/or environment within 10 years.