The other main source of grants is government programs, with Armed Forces scholarships, at 3.9%, constituting the largest single source, followed by National Medical Fellowships at 1.4%.
Canadian scientists are afraid that the government's decision to cut funding to the main source of research grants will trigger a new brain drain to the United States.
Things weren't as rosy north of the border: On Tuesday, the Canadian prime minister unveiled a budget that makes some big cuts to the country's main source of research grants.
Last year, for example, the administration asked Congress for a 44% increase for the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI), the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) main source of competitive extramural grants, hoping to boost AFRI to a record $383 million.
The main source of income — corporate grants and contributions from individual donors — amounted to roughly $22 million last year.
The bulk was government research money, the main source of the $20 million in grants and contracts Reisner has sucked up since 1996, when he started out, from the likes of the Navy, NASA, the National Institutes of Health and other agencies.
S4C's main source of funding is an annual grant of £86m from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, supplemented by programming worth £22m from the BBC and about £10m from commercial sales.
Conversely, rural residence of patients, having no religious affiliation, not having money to meet needs, no income (other than social grant), family members not contributing to main source of household income, being on a disability grant (for chronic illness including AIDS) and fewer clinic visits were associated with the use of herbs for HIV or HIV-related symptoms.
Andrew Johnson, cabinet member for resources, said: "We have lost a huge proportion of the main source of our income, which is the grant from the government.
Barnes said there are three main sources of finance: grants or prizes, banks and venture capital.
