Grants and Contributions
About this information
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.
$70,000.00
Mar 1, 2026
Individual or sole proprietorship
Catalyst Grant: Analysis of CLSA Data
191262
The specific objective of this funding opportunity is to:
• Catalyze and support research efforts of Canadian researchers to use the available CLSA data to better understand how biological, medical, psychological, social, lifestyle and/or economic aspects of people’s lives have an impact on both maintaining health and the development of disease and disability as people age.
$70,000.00
Mar 1, 2026
Individual or sole proprietorship
Catalyst Grant: Analysis of CLSA Data
191324
The specific objective of this funding opportunity is to:
• Catalyze and support research efforts of Canadian researchers to use the available CLSA data to better understand how biological, medical, psychological, social, lifestyle and/or economic aspects of people’s lives have an impact on both maintaining health and the development of disease and disability as people age.
$1,468,800.00
Mar 1, 2026
Individual or sole proprietorship
Project Grant - Priority Announcement: Integrated Cannabis Research Strategy
189135
This Priority Announcement will fund an application deemed relevant to brain and mental health benefits of cannabis use.
$100,000.00
Mar 1, 2026
Individual or sole proprietorship
Project Grant - PA: Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis: Pain
189089
The CIHR Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis (CIHR-IMHA) will fund applications that are determined relevant to its mandate and research priority areas as described below:
• IMHA General Mandate
• Pain
• Biomaterials Research for Dental Amalgams Replacement
$100,000.00
Mar 1, 2026
Individual or sole proprietorship
Project Grant - Priority Announcement: IMHA: Oral Health
189088
The CIHR Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis (CIHR-IMHA) will fund applications that are determined relevant to its mandate and research priority areas as described below:
• IMHA General Mandate
• Pain
• Biomaterials Research for Dental Amalgams Replacement
$100,000.00
Mar 1, 2026
Individual or sole proprietorship
Project Grant - Priority Announcement: Patient-Oriented Research
189117
This Priority Announcement (PA) is led by Canada's Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research and aims to support Patient-Oriented Research (POR) projects.
$100,000.00
Mar 1, 2026
Individual or sole proprietorship
Project Grant - Priority Announcement: Patient-Oriented Research
189115
This Priority Announcement (PA) is led by Canada's Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research and aims to support Patient-Oriented Research (POR) projects.
$100,000.00
Mar 1, 2026
Individual or sole proprietorship
Project Grant - Priority Announcement: Patient-Oriented Research
189113
This Priority Announcement (PA) is led by Canada's Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research and aims to support Patient-Oriented Research (POR) projects.
$210,000.00
Mar 1, 2026
Individual or sole proprietorship
CIHR Fellowship
184433
The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:
• To provide recognition and funding to academic health research trainees;
• To provide a reliable supply of highly skilled and qualified researchers.
$100,000.00
Mar 1, 2026
Individual or sole proprietorship
Project Grant – Priority Announcement: Female Athlete Health
189071
Sport science has traditionally centered on male athletes, either ignoring, or extrapolating findings to female athletes. Focusing on sex as a biological variable and gender as a social variable, this priority announcement (PA) aims to address research gaps in understanding the health of female athletes in the context of organized sport participation.
This PA is the result of a partnership between the CIHR Institutes of Gender and Health (CIHR-IGH), and Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis (IMHA). For the purpose of this PA, sport is defined as "Activities that develop specific skills, and that are organized around competition and governed by rules" and will contribute to the National Women's Health Research Initiative (NWHRI) which is advancing a coordinated research program that addresses under-researched and high-priority areas of women's health and will ensure new evidence improves women's and gender-diverse people's care and health outcomes. The NWHRI promotes an intersectional lens to research and care to tackle persistent gaps for all women, including for Indigenous, Black, and women impacted by racism, women with disabilities, and members of Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and additional sexually and gender diverse (2SLGBTQI+) communities.
This PA is designed to support research that considers physical, biological, reproductive, psychological, emotional, cultural, and/or spiritual health as it relates to female athletes participating in sports across the life-course together with gender and other intersecting variables. Examples of research topics that would be considered for this initiative include:
• Sex-related factors that differently or disproportionately influence health outcomes of female athletes participating in sports.
• Impact of sports participation on puberty, menstruation, pregnancy, postpartum health, menopause, aging, and/or other sex-specific health outcomes among female athletes.
• Identification of unique health experiences of female athletes participating in sport with intersecting variables including ethnicity, (dis)ability, age, sexual orientation, and gender (including gender identity inclusive of trans, non-binary, gender non-conforming, and other gender diverse identities; gender relations; gender roles; and/or institutionalized gender dimensions).
• Identification of strategies to manage, support, and promote mental health and psychological safety of female athletes in the context of sport participation.