Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Organizations
National Research Council Canada
Program purpose (as reported by the department)
The purpose of IRAP Contributions to Organizations is to support Organizations in building and integrating the innovation capacity in Canada for the benefit of Firms in Canada, primarily SMEs and to support Organizations in providing innovation assistance services to SMEs in Canada.
Agreements with businesses
231
Median agreement
$77,250
Range
$0 – $950,000
Recipients
195
Last 12 months
4
Total value
$31,799,586
What the numbers say
- Half of the agreements with businesses are worth $77,250 or less.
- The largest recipient, OCAD U CO Corp., holds $1,931,950 (6% of the program's business funding in this data).
- The most recent agreement in the data started on 2025-12-01.
By fiscal year
2021-22$2,021,03618
2022-23$1,952,62215
2023-24$8,171,40040
2024-25$17,696,503137
2025-26$1,958,02521
By recipient province
AB$12,872,05696
ON$5,541,11943
SK$5,335,37527
MB$3,989,77733
BC$2,644,50916
PE$885,0009
NS$336,7504
NL$120,0002
QC$75,0001
Largest recipients
| Recipient | Agreements | Value | Latest start |
|---|---|---|---|
| OCAD U CO Corp. | 11 | $1,931,950 | 2025-08-01 |
| ATTABOTICS INC. | 1 | $950,000 | 2024-01-01 |
| FTC Enterprises Limited (BioFoodTech) | 6 | $760,000 | 2025-08-05 |
| BIROTA ECONOMICS GROUP INC. | 3 | $750,000 | 2025-04-01 |
| Dias Geophysical Limited | 1 | $700,000 | 2024-02-01 |
| NIMBLE SCIENCE LTD. | 1 | $699,500 | 2023-10-01 |
| Spring Activator Inc. | 2 | $698,409 | 2023-06-01 |
| HomeTeam Live Technologies Inc. | 1 | $670,000 | 2024-04-01 |
| Aero HygenX Inc. | 1 | $619,900 | 2021-09-01 |
| G2V Optics Inc. | 1 | $615,000 | 2023-05-15 |
| Rocket Builders Canada Limited | 5 | $570,000 | 2025-04-01 |
| Future Fields Cellular Agriculture and Research LTD. | 1 | $523,250 | 2023-12-01 |
| Promise Robotics Inc. | 1 | $450,000 | 2024-05-13 |
| Genoptic LED Inc. | 1 | $450,000 | 2024-04-01 |
| InnoTech Alberta Inc. | 3 | $425,000 | 2024-05-01 |
Recent agreements
| Start | Recipient | Project | Province | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-01 | LYNKED INC. | AI Analytics System | ON | $275,000 |
| 2025-12-01 | 1000470559 ONTARIO INC | AI Assist: ARP Data Project for Booky's AI Assistant | ON | $12,000 |
| 2025-11-01 | CMS Montera Inc. | Roadrunner Rx NextGen - Faster Deployments, Smarter Decisions, Greater Impact | ON | $75,000 |
| 2025-10-20 | AI Materia Inc. | AI ASSIST- Advanced Data Engineering and Augmentation Framework | ON | $75,000 |
| 2025-10-06 | FORCEN INC. | Space-Grade Embedded Electronics for Canadian Force/Torque Sensors | ON | $75,000 |
| 2025-10-01 | Vaultie Inc. | [ARP AI Assist for Vaultie Inc.] Synthetic Public Facial Identification | ON | $75,000 |
| 2025-10-01 | MAPflow INC. | AI Assist: ARP AI Pilot Project for AI-powered Chronic Disease Management by Pharmacists | ON | $69,600 |
| 2025-10-01 | Arcori Inc | AI Assist - Level 1 - AI Qualification and Planning for Social Housing Software | ON | $12,796 |
| 2025-09-01 | 1000470559 ONTARIO INC | AI Qualification and Planning for AI Assistant | ON | $12,000 |
| 2025-09-01 | Gambit Technologies Inc. | From Chat to Action: Evolving Gambit Cloud into an Action-Driven AI Platform | ON | $74,500 |
| 2025-08-05 | Prodomax Automation Ltd. | Advanced Robotic Material Handling | ON | $75,000 |
| 2025-08-05 | FTC Enterprises Limited (BioFoodTech) | Technical Research to Support Waste Valorization. | PE | $0 |
| 2025-08-01 | OCAD U CO Corp. | F2025 Customer Insight CTO | ON | $63,360 |
| 2025-07-01 | Providence Health Care Ventures Inc. | Clinical Data Service for AI Innovation | BC | $180,000 |
| 2025-05-01 | OCAD U CO Corp. | F25-26 OCADU CO Design Critiques (Toronto Budget) | ON | $164,390 |
| 2025-04-21 | OCAD U CO Corp. | F25-26 OCADU CO Design Critiques (ICT Sector Team Budget) | ON | $135,380 |
| 2025-04-01 | Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning (CER and CAAI) | Empowering Small and Medium-Sized Businesses to Design, Deploy and Evaluate the use of Artificial Intelligence to Support Healthy Aging and Elder Care | ON | $84,999 |
| 2025-04-01 | BIROTA ECONOMICS GROUP INC. | Early Economic Evaluation of Innovative Canadian Life Sciences SME Technology | BC | $250,000 |
| 2025-04-01 | Rocket Builders Canada Limited | Go-to-Market and Sales Coaching Program 2025 | BC | $85,000 |
| 2025-04-01 | FTC Enterprises Limited (BioFoodTech) | Provision of Research Services and Expertise to Canadian Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Project | PE | $80,000 |
| 2025-04-01 | Canadian Advanced Air Mobility | Supporting Canadian SMEs for Operationalization of Advanced Air Mobility in Canada | BC | $84,000 |
| 2024-10-10 | Aikawa Fiber Technologies (AFT) inc. | ARP - Enhanced Application of Wear-Resistant Technologies | QC | $75,000 |
| 2024-09-22 | DuroByte Inc. | Virtual Quarantine and Data Mining Prototype | ON | $75,000 |
| 2024-09-01 | Rethink Milling Inc. | Conjugate Anvil Hammer Mill (CAHM) development phase 2 | ON | $105,000 |
| 2024-08-26 | OCAD U CO Corp. | F24 Inclusive Design Pilot | ON | $69,720 |
Method & sources
Source: Government of Canada "Proactive Disclosure – Grants and Contributions" (Open Government Licence – Canada). We include agreements with for-profit recipients that started on or after April 1, 2021, and keep the latest amendment of each agreement, so values are the current agreement value, not money paid out. Departments report on their own schedule, so the most recent quarter is incomplete. Recipients are linked to company pages by exact name match. This is not an endorsement or an eligibility determination — check each program's official page.
Dataset on open.canada.ca · Search the official grants records