About the data

Where it comes from

Every figure comes from the Government of Canada’s Proactive Disclosure of Grants and Contributions, published by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Federal departments and agencies report each grant and contribution agreement they sign. This site uses the file published October 11, 2026 and was rebuilt from it on October 12, 2026. The government updates the file each quarter.

What it covers

1,195,209 agreements worth $961B: agreements starting Jan 2006 to Oct 2026. The disclosure starts in earnest in 2006; the few records dated before then, and any dated in the future, are left out. Departments must disclose agreements over $25,000, and many report smaller ones too.

Places are the recipient’s address, not where the money was spent. Departments record the recipient’s federal riding on about one agreement in five and an industry code (NAICS) on about one in ten, so riding and industry pages show what was recorded, not everything that reached a riding or an industry.

How agreements are counted

When an agreement is amended, the department publishes a new record with the revised total value. Each agreement counts once, at its latest amended value; amendments are never added together. An agreement whose latest value is zero or negative (most often a cancellation) counts as $0. Values are what the agreement commits, not what has been paid out so far.

A grant is a payment with no requirement to account for how it was spent; a contribution is paid against conditions and reporting. Medians and typical ranges are over agreements with a value above zero.

Why some recipients are not named

This site never names an individual. Grants to people (scholarships, research awards, athletes, artists, sole proprietors) count in every total, but the person is never shown by name, in a list or on a page of their own.

The government’s data marks some recipients as individuals, but not all: about a quarter of records have no recipient type, and people appear under the other types too. So a recipient is named only when it reads as an organization: a company, a society, a First Nation, a university, a municipality. Names that read as a person’s are left out whatever their type, and so is every recipient of a program that mostly funds individuals. A company named after a person is shown only once its federal funding reaches $1 million; below that it is usually that person’s own business, and naming it would name them. Some organizations are left out as a result. That is deliberate.

In all, 909,815 of 1,195,209 agreements are shown under a recipient’s name.

Corrections

The records are the departments’ own. To correct one, contact the department that published it; the fix reaches this site with the next quarterly update.