Canada's largest federal program for business research and development. It pays as a tax credit for eligible experimental development and applied research.
SR&ED stands for Scientific Research and Experimental Development. SR&ED is Canada's largest federal program supporting business research and development, and the Canada Revenue Agency administers it. SR&ED pays tax credits to Canadian businesses carrying out eligible experimental development, applied research or basic research.
SR&ED is a tax incentive rather than an application-based grant, which is why it stacks. A company claims SR&ED on its corporate tax return while holding direct funding from a program such as NRC IRAP for the same work, within the stacking limits the programs set.
The Canada Revenue Agency decides whether particular work qualifies, against its own published criteria. GrantMark screens a company against those criteria to show whether a claim looks available. GrantMark does not prepare or file SR&ED claims.
The Canada Revenue Agency administers SR&ED and publishes the current criteria, amounts and deadlines. That page is the authority on all three.
The GrantMark eligibility check asks thirteen questions about a company and screens the answers against a maintained catalog of Canadian federal and provincial funding program rules, SR&ED among them. Nothing is generated, so the same answers always produce the same result, and every program that comes back traces to the rule that let it through.
GrantMark is not a government agency and does not decide eligibility. A GrantMark assessment shows which programs a company appears to qualify for. It is where an application starts, and nothing more.
Thirteen questions, about two minutes. The check is free.