Grant and contribution program
Contributions to support Land Management and Economic Development
Department of Indigenous Services · Indigenous services and reconciliation
Headline figures
Fiscal year 2024–25
$293M
Down $1.7M from $294M in 2023–24.
$9.76per tax filer$7.11per person
Per tax filer uses 29,965,100 tax filers (2023, the latest count published); per person uses a population of 41,162,593 (2024). An allocation of cost, not a tax bill.
Largest recipients
The largest named recipients of payments reported under this program in 2024–25. Location is the recipient's address, which is not always where the money is spent. Recipient payments can differ slightly from the program total above because the Public Accounts report them separately.
| Recipient | Location | Paid | Per tax filer |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Aboriginal Capital Corporations Association | Ottawa, Ontario | $77.5M | $2.59 |
| First Nations Land Management Resource Centre Inc. | Port Perry, Ontario | $17.6M | $0.59 |
| National Aboriginal Lands Managers Association | Curve Lake, Ontario | $14.6M | $0.49 |
| Payments under $100,000 (245) | Location not stated | $11.9M | $0.40 |
| Whitecap Dakota First Nation Band | Whitecap, Saskatchewan | $7.9M | $0.26 |
| Louis Riel Capital Corporation | Winnipeg, Manitoba | $6.6M | $0.22 |
| Métis Voyageur Development Fund | Ottawa, Ontario | $4.9M | $0.16 |
| Indigenous Centre for Cumulative Effects | Toronto, Ontario | $3.8M | $0.13 |
| Métis Financial Corporation of British Columbia | Kelowna, British Columbia | $3.5M | $0.12 |
| Indigenous Zero Waste Technical Advisory Group Society of B.C. | Mount Currie, British Columbia | $3.2M | $0.11 |
Source and basis
- Detailed information on Transfer Payments, as per the Public Accounts of Canada, retrieved 2026-11-03. Open Government Licence - Canada.
- Recipients: Detailed information on Transfer Payments, as per the Public Accounts of Canada.
- Net expenditures of this transfer payment program in the Public Accounts. It overlaps with program spending, so do not add the two.