Hoot Reading Inc.: federal grants and contributions

Updated 12 October 2026 · Winnipeg|Winnipeg, MB · grants and contributions register · Winnipeg West

Hoot Reading Inc.: federal grants and contributions: 5 agreements; $1.1M value; 1 departments; 2 programs.

Assay record ASY-CA-0YQZ37N00F · Cite as: Assay Systems, “Hoot Reading Inc.: federal grants and contributions”, https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/r/hoot-reading-inc/

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5agreements
$1.1Mvalue
1departments
2programs

Largest agreements

Lit-Tech Innovation$605Kvalue2022start2025end

Development of an automated assessment and teacher/student pairing solution to enhance the user experience and fit for the firm’s Digital Literacy Platform which enables teachers and students to connect for reading lessons and provides the ability for parents and schools to engage with and positively support a child’s learning path.

Digital Literacy Platform$270Kvalue2021start2022end

Development of a fully integrated digital platform that enables teachers to connect with students for reading lessons and provides ability for parents to engage with and support in their child's learning path.

Experimentation to optimize business processes in go-to-market (GTM) direct to consume language learning$120Kvalue2026start2027end

This project will test hypotheses and experiment with new mechanisms to design a repeatable and scalable business process, which may result in new business methods for repeatable and scalable go to market strategy for the direct to consumer literacy learning line of business.

Enhanced Reading Tutoring System for Mobile Web & User Portal$50.0Kvalue2020start2021end

Enhance the firm's current iOS app into a modern web-app, and develop a custom web-based Student and Teacher Portal to scale and grow.

R&D on the Application of AI for Content Creation$50.0Kvalue2024start2025end

R&D to determine if AI, specifically large language models (LLMs), can autonomously generate meaningful content that aligns with specific inputs such as, Lexile Level, grade, genre, and subject to create authentic texts that are suitable for assessment or instruction and which are owned by the firm.

Departments

National Research Council Canada5agreements$1.1Mvalue2programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program

All grants from National Research Council Canada

Years

20261agreements$120Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program
20241agreements$50.0Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20221agreements$605Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20211agreements$270Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20201agreements$50.0Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Source: Government of Canada proactive disclosure of grants and contributions (open.canada.ca, dataset 432527ab-7aac-45b5-81d6-7597107a7013), 1,327,352 rows as published, collapsed to one agreement per agreement number (per reference number where none is given) at its latest amendment, which carries the full agreement value. Years are the agreement start year. Agreements with individuals are counted but not named.