Grants and Contributions

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In June 2016, as part of the Open Government Action Plan, the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) committed to increasing the transparency and usefulness of grants and contribution data and subsequently launched the Guidelines on the Reporting of Grants and Contributions Awards, effective April 1, 2018.

The rules and principles governing government grants and contributions are outlined in the Treasury Board Policy on Transfer Payments. Transfer payments are transfers of money, goods, services or assets made from an appropriation to individuals, organizations or other levels of government, without the federal government directly receiving goods or services in return, but which may require the recipient to provide a report or other information subsequent to receiving payment. These expenditures are reported in the Public Accounts of Canada. The major types of transfer payments are grants, contributions and \'other transfer payments\'.

Included in this category, but not to be reported under proactive disclosure of awards, are (1) transfers to other levels of government such as Equalization payments as well as Canada Health and Social Transfer payments. (2) Grants and contributions reallocated or otherwise redistributed by the recipient to third parties; and (3) information that would normally be withheld under the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act.

Found 1173392 records

$100,000,000.00

Apr 2, 2025

Not-for-profit organization or charity

Agreement:

World Food Programme - Institutional Support – 2025 to 2029

Agreement Number:

7465762 P014431001

Duration: from Apr 2, 2025 to Dec 31, 2028
Description:

This grant represents Canada’s long-term institutional support to the World Food Programme (WFP). WFP uses these funds, along with other donors’ funding, to achieve its mandate.

WFP is the food assistance arm of the United Nations and is the largest humanitarian organization fighting hunger in the world. Its mandate is to provide food assistance quickly to vulnerable people in humanitarian emergencies such as natural disasters, civil conflict and war, and reduce global food insecurity.

Project activities include: (1) saving lives and protecting livelihoods in emergencies; (2) supporting or restoring food security and nutrition, and establishing or rebuilding livelihoods in fragile settings and following emergencies; (3) reducing risk and enabling people, communities and countries to meet their own food and nutrition needs; and (4) reducing under-nutrition and break the intergenerational cycle of hunger.

Organization: Global Affairs Canada
Program Name: Grants - Multilateral Programming
Location: Rome, IT 00148

$1,000,000.00

Apr 2, 2025

For-profit organization

Agreement:

Cognitive Radio Networks Anomaly Detection with Quantum Machine Learning

Duration: from Apr 2, 2025 to Sep 30, 2027
Description:

Funding will support research and development to address National Defence’s Challenge: North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Modernization Science & Technology (S&T) Contest. Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) and its defence and security partners seek to advance capabilities in five key areas: quantum technologies; autonomous systems; counter-uncrewed aerial systems (CUAS); Arctic mobility and navigation of military platforms; and energy solutions that are scalable, efficient, and sustainable for current and future Arctic operations. The initiative targets critical science and technology gaps in threat detection, situational awareness, decision support, and operational effectiveness to strengthen continental defence and support NORAD modernization.

Organization: National Defence
Program Name: Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program
Location: Québec City, Quebec, CA G1P 4P5

$1,000,000.00

Apr 2, 2025

For-profit organization

Agreement:

SymbAIosis: Symbolic AI for optimal swarm interface for surveillance with human command & control using Large Language Models and Vision Language Models

Duration: from Apr 2, 2025 to Sep 30, 2027
Description:

Funding will support research and development to address National Defence’s Challenge: North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Modernization Science & Technology (S&T) Contest. Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) and its defence and security partners seek to advance capabilities in five key areas: quantum technologies; autonomous systems; counter-uncrewed aerial systems (CUAS); Arctic mobility and navigation of military platforms; and energy solutions that are scalable, efficient, and sustainable for current and future Arctic operations. The initiative targets critical science and technology gaps in threat detection, situational awareness, decision support, and operational effectiveness to strengthen continental defence and support NORAD modernization.

Organization: National Defence
Program Name: Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program
Location: Mississauga, Ontario, CA L5M 0V8

$1,000,000.00

Apr 2, 2025

For-profit organization

Agreement:

Ultra-Low Power AI Capabilities to Enable Enhanced Autonomous Systems for Defence Applications

Duration: from Apr 2, 2025 to Sep 30, 2027
Description:

Funding will support research and development to address National Defence’s Challenge: North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Modernization Science & Technology (S&T) Contest. Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) and its defence and security partners seek to advance capabilities in five key areas: quantum technologies; autonomous systems; counter-uncrewed aerial systems (CUAS); Arctic mobility and navigation of military platforms; and energy solutions that are scalable, efficient, and sustainable for current and future Arctic operations. The initiative targets critical science and technology gaps in threat detection, situational awareness, decision support, and operational effectiveness to strengthen continental defence and support NORAD modernization.

Organization: National Defence
Program Name: Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program
Location: Sherbrooke, Quebec, CA J1K 1B7

$1,000,000.00

Apr 2, 2025

Academia

Agreement:

Uncrewed aerial systems supported quantum network for distributed quantum sensing

Duration: from Apr 2, 2025 to Sep 30, 2027
Description:

Funding will support research and development to address National Defence’s Challenge: North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Modernization Science & Technology (S&T) Contest. Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) and its defence and security partners seek to advance capabilities in five key areas: quantum technologies; autonomous systems; counter-uncrewed aerial systems (CUAS); Arctic mobility and navigation of military platforms; and energy solutions that are scalable, efficient, and sustainable for current and future Arctic operations. The initiative targets critical science and technology gaps in threat detection, situational awareness, decision support, and operational effectiveness to strengthen continental defence and support NORAD modernization.

Organization: National Defence
Program Name: Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program
Location: Waterloo, Ontario, CA N2L 3G1

$1,000,000.00

Apr 2, 2025

Indigenous recipients

Agreement:

Arctic Operations Center for Autonomous Platforms

Duration: from Apr 2, 2025 to Sep 30, 2027
Description:

Funding will support research and development to address National Defence’s Challenge: North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Modernization Science & Technology (S&T) Contest. Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) and its defence and security partners seek to advance capabilities in five key areas: quantum technologies; autonomous systems; counter-uncrewed aerial systems (CUAS); Arctic mobility and navigation of military platforms; and energy solutions that are scalable, efficient, and sustainable for current and future Arctic operations. The initiative targets critical science and technology gaps in threat detection, situational awareness, decision support, and operational effectiveness to strengthen continental defence and support NORAD modernization.

Organization: National Defence
Program Name: Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program
Location: Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, CA X0B 0C0

$1,000,000.00

Apr 2, 2025

For-profit organization

Agreement:

Arctic-Ready Zero-Carbon Energy Storage for Remote Military Operations

Duration: from Apr 2, 2025 to Sep 30, 2027
Description:

Funding will support research and development to address National Defence’s Challenge: North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Modernization Science & Technology (S&T) Contest. Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) and its defence and security partners seek to advance capabilities in five key areas: quantum technologies; autonomous systems; counter-uncrewed aerial systems (CUAS); Arctic mobility and navigation of military platforms; and energy solutions that are scalable, efficient, and sustainable for current and future Arctic operations. The initiative targets critical science and technology gaps in threat detection, situational awareness, decision support, and operational effectiveness to strengthen continental defence and support NORAD modernization.

Organization: National Defence
Program Name: Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program
Location: Montréal, Quebec, CA H2Y 2H1

For-profit organization

Agreement:

Ice Classification and Evaluation by Sensor Information Gathering and other High-Tech Solutions

Duration: from Apr 2, 2025 to Sep 30, 2027
Description:

Funding will support research and development to address National Defence’s Challenge: North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Modernization Science & Technology (S&T) Contest. Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) and its defence and security partners seek to advance capabilities in five key areas: quantum technologies; autonomous systems; counter-uncrewed aerial systems (CUAS); Arctic mobility and navigation of military platforms; and energy solutions that are scalable, efficient, and sustainable for current and future Arctic operations. The initiative targets critical science and technology gaps in threat detection, situational awareness, decision support, and operational effectiveness to strengthen continental defence and support NORAD modernization.

Organization: National Defence
Program Name: Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, CA K1P 5H9

$1,000,000.00

Apr 2, 2025

For-profit organization

Agreement:

Quantum Computing for Next Generation Batteries in Defence

Duration: from Apr 2, 2025 to Sep 30, 2027
Description:

Funding will support research and development to address National Defence’s Challenge: North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Modernization Science & Technology (S&T) Contest. Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) and its defence and security partners seek to advance capabilities in five key areas: quantum technologies; autonomous systems; counter-uncrewed aerial systems (CUAS); Arctic mobility and navigation of military platforms; and energy solutions that are scalable, efficient, and sustainable for current and future Arctic operations. The initiative targets critical science and technology gaps in threat detection, situational awareness, decision support, and operational effectiveness to strengthen continental defence and support NORAD modernization.

Organization: National Defence
Program Name: Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security Program
Location: Toronto, Ontario, CA M5G 2C8

$125,329.00

Apr 2, 2025

Not-for-profit organization or charity

Agreement:

Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2025/2026

Agreement Number:

1030755

Duration: from Apr 2, 2025 to Mar 31, 2026
Description:

Innovation & Entrepreneurship (I&E) staff and contractors support economic development and diversification in Yukon by serving small and medium enterprises (SME) with business and technical advice to accelerate innovation and equip entrepreneurs with skills and capacity building.

Organization: National Research Council Canada
Program Name: Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Organizations
Location: Whitehorse, Yukon, CA Y1A 5K4