Registered charity

Mcmaster University

Legal name on the register: MCMASTER UNIVERSITY

CA-E-BSDA-604XCurrentCanada (federal)3 independent sources

On the record

Identifier: CA-E-BSDA-604X
Address: OJN409 - 1280 MAIN ST W, HAMILTON, ON, L8S 4L8
Earliest record: May 28, 2004
Also known as: McMaster University Hamilton · Venture Academy · Rural Ontario Medical Program · McMaster University, Centre for Evidence-Based Orthopaedics · MIRA | Dixon Hall Centre · McMaster Engineering Community Outreach- Venture Academy

Identifiers held

Charity registration: 119035988RR0001
Business number: 107808461
Business number: 119035988
Business number: 119260685

Registrations

Registrar	Instrument	Number	Registered	Status
Canada Revenue Agency	Registered charity	119035988RR0001	—	Registered

Board and officers on record (35)

Name	Position	Serving since	Status
Rishav Jaiswal	Director	July 1, 2024	current
Arlene Dosen	Director	July 1, 2024	current
Lance Trumble	Director	July 1, 2024	current
Megumi Harada	Director	July 1, 2024	current
Susan McCracken	Director	July 1, 2024	current
Mayu Nishimura	Director	July 1, 2024	current
Michael Ramsay	Director	January 11, 2024	current
Wayne Purboo	Director	July 1, 2023	current
Saara Greene	Director	July 1, 2023	current
Catherine Anderson	Director	July 1, 2023	current
Nicole Agyei-Odame	Director	July 1, 2023	current
Ben Menka	Director	July 1, 2023	current
Stephen Elop	Director	July 1, 2022	current
Mamdouh Shoukri	Director	July 1, 2022	current
Justin Boye	Director	July 1, 2022	current
Barry Hill	Director	July 1, 2022	current
Brenda Vrkljan	Director	July 1, 2022	current
Natalia Lishchyna	Director	April 8, 2021	current
Ryan Clarke	Director	December 3, 2020	current
Susan Tighe	Director	July 1, 2020	current
Dina Brooks	Director	July 1, 2020	current
Santee Smith	Director	September 1, 2019	current
Andrea Thyret-Kidd	Director	July 15, 2019	current
Michael Ferencich	Director	June 20, 2019	current
Robert Walker	Director	December 13, 2018	current
Jane Allen	Director and Chair	August 24, 2018	current
Lisa Brown	Director	July 1, 2018	current
David Farrar	Director	December 1, 2017	current
Kevin Nye	Director	September 14, 2016	current
Jennifer Rowe	Director and Vice Chair	September 2, 2016	current
Bradley Merkel	Director	May 1, 2014	current
Sandra Cruickshanks	Director	July 1, 2013	current
Fareen Samji	Director	July 1, 2013	current
David Huctwith	Director	—	current
Silvia Stankovic	Director	—	current

Filed by the charity itself with the Canada Revenue Agency, under the Open Government Licence. This is the narrowest slate the source publishes — name, position, and tenure only; no address, phone, or email exists in the file to withhold. Why this is published and directors’ home addresses never are.

Public money on record

Federal contracts

$166,552,365

across 634 awards, 2004–2026

2004$104K

2005$593K

2006$28K

2009$48K

2012$2.7M

2013$1.4M

2014$7.9M

2015$6.4M

2016$1.6M

2017$4.5M

2018$11.4M

2019$20.8M

2020$13.3M

2021$11.5M

2022$40.0M

2023$7.7M

2024$14.5M

2025$20.9M

2026$1.4M

Paying institution	Awards	Value
Shared Services Canada	22	$34,834,606
Employment and Social Development Canada	31	$23,096,952
National Defence	57	$17,642,780
Elections Canada	3	$11,429,074
Public Services and Procurement Canada	28	$10,495,087
Canada Revenue Agency	20	$9,596,145
Correctional Service of Canada	24	$8,084,565
Canada Border Services Agency	12	$7,231,303
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada	17	$6,241,963
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada	26	$4,774,266

Federal grants and contributions

$231,798,163

across 252 agreements, 2006–2026

2006$378K

2007$62K

2008$254K

2009$98K

2011$12.3M

2012$1.2M

2013$1.3M

2014$1.8M

2015$758K

2016$379K

2017$1.6M

2018$7.4M

2019$18.0M

2020$39.9M

2021$24.3M

2022$20.3M

2023$31.3M

2024$32.7M

2025$27.6M

2026$10.1M

Paying institution	Awards	Value
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada	36	$140,899,875
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada	5	$14,981,750
Health Canada	9	$13,853,488
Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario	2	$11,200,000
Canadian Institutes of Health Research	2	$11,054,860
Employment and Social Development Canada	67	$10,924,777
National Research Council Canada	35	$8,015,720
Environment and Climate Change Canada	20	$4,687,223
Global Affairs Canada	15	$2,932,738
Indigenous Services Canada	2	$2,482,700

Value as published, not money paid. The federal contract value field includes the ceiling of standing offers and supply arrangements — purchasing capacity a department may never draw on. A large figure here can mean a large ceiling rather than a large payment.

Awards are attached to this record only where the evidence identifies exactly one organisation: a name and postal area that narrow to a single company, or a name unique across the whole national corpus. Proactive publication truncates the vendor postal code to three characters, so anything that could belong to more than one company is left unattached rather than guessed at. Totals are a floor in that direction. The full rules.

Qualified to supply the government (2)

Commodity	Buying department	Agreement type	Awarded	Expires
86131800 — 86131800 - Military education	Department of National Defence	NISO	April 1, 2025	April 30, 2030
86121700; 86131800 — 86121700 - University and colleges; 86131800 - Military education	Department of National Defence	NISO	March 21, 2025	April 30, 2030

This is a different fact from public money above: a standing offer or supply arrangement means the government has pre-agreed to buy specific goods or services from this organisation at set terms if it chooses to — it does not mean any money has changed hands. The source publishes only currently active agreements and carries no dollar figure at all, unlike the contract value field, which sometimes states a ceiling rather than a payment. How this is attached.

Timeline

June 16, 2026Federal contract — National Defence$510,000
June 16, 2026Federal contract — National Defence$310,000
June 11, 2026Federal grant — Global Affairs Canada$13,984
June 1, 2026Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$29,995
June 1, 2026Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$30,000
April 1, 2026Federal grant — Polar Knowledge Canada$34,125
April 1, 2026Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$2,498,266
April 1, 2026Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$2,470,372
March 31, 2026Federal grant — Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission$129,944
March 31, 2026Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$22,413
March 24, 2026Federal grant — Health Canada$666,287
March 16, 2026Federal grant — National Research Council Canada$363,000
March 12, 2026Federal contract — Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada$48,873
March 11, 2026Federal contract — Canadian Food Inspection Agency$23,870
March 10, 2026Federal grant — Canada Water Agency$200,000
March 6, 2026Federal grant — National Research Council Canada$25,000
March 2, 2026Federal contract — National Defence$38,852
February 24, 2026Federal grant — Health Canada$826,925
February 23, 2026Federal contract — Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada$21,270
February 16, 2026Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$35,496
February 6, 2026Federal contract — Natural Resources Canada$89,743
January 28, 2026Federal contract — Indigenous Services Canada$24,345
January 22, 2026Federal contract — Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada$30,000
January 20, 2026Federal contract — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$39,000
January 19, 2026Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$775,000
January 15, 2026Federal grant — Health Canada$2,000,000
January 13, 2026Federal contract — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$43,907
January 13, 2026Federal contract — Health Canada$113,000
January 8, 2026Federal contract — Royal Canadian Mounted Police$80,007
December 30, 2025Federal contract — Department of Justice Canada$22,600
December 29, 2025Federal contract — Canada Border Services Agency$38,133
December 10, 2025Federal contract — Indigenous Services Canada$53,020
December 5, 2025Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$786,250
December 4, 2025Federal contract — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$18,669
November 18, 2025Federal contract — Natural Resources Canada$225,998
November 14, 2025Federal contract — Canadian Food Inspection Agency$210,507
November 6, 2025Federal contract — Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada$52,370
November 1, 2025Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$377,732
November 1, 2025Federal grant — National Research Council Canada$495,000
October 31, 2025Federal contract — Environment and Climate Change Canada$14,850

Showing the 40 most recent of 200 dated events.

Where this record comes from

Registered charities — directors and officers (2024 returns)
Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada
Registered charities — identification (2024 returns)
Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada
Proactive publication — federal contracts over $10,000
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada
Proactive disclosure — federal grants and contributions
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada
Active federal standing offers and supply arrangements (SOSA)
Public Services and Procurement Canada · Open Government Licence – Canada

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