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Founded in 1993, the Health Services Foundation of the South Shore resulted from a merger of the South Shore Regional Hospital Foundation and the Fishermen's Memorial Hospital Society. According to it's by-laws, the Foundation's purpose, is to "raise money in an orderly, continuing, and coordinated way for the South Shore Regional Hospital and Fishermen's Memorial Hospital." The Foundation responds to the needs of the hospital, but is accountable to the donors and the community, whose gifts make its work possible. Many gifts are designated to a specific program or service. Assuring that the wishes of the donor are carried out, is a responsibility the Foundation takes very seriously. The affairs of the Foundation are guided by a Board of Directors, composed of volunteers with diverse interests and expertise, from various county communities.

The Minstrel Foundation has been instrumental in launching the Regent Park School of Music, in expanding music and arts programs at the Dixon Hall Music School, University Settlement Music School, Pia Bouman School of Dance and the Canadian Children's Opera Chorus, and in sponsoring summer music camps for underpriviledged youth. In addition, The Foundation each year presents the Hagood Hardy Protege, Fan Po Chu, and the Cassels Brock and the Minstrel Foundation music awards for advanced students to study.

The Scottish Rite Freemasons created the Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation of Canada in 1964, funded by donations and bequests from thousands of members across the country. From the inception, the Foundation has concentrated its efforts in support of research into the causes of, and hopefully the eventual cure of “puzzles of the mind”, especially as it afflicts children and persons of advanced years. The Foundation concentrates its assistance in research into the causes of “puzzles of the mind” as opposed to active treatment. Each year, the Foundation disburses the income earned on its endowment funds to medical research and university bursaries. In recent years this disbursement has been approximately $550,000 annually. Giving has never been easier now that we can accept secure online donations with the assistance of CanadHelps.org. Donate in memoriam, in honour of family or friends, or to celebrate special occasions such as anniversaries, birthdays and holidays.

The Egbo Arts Foundation provides a chance for children to express themselves through the arts, and assist them to develop positive attributes that will enable them to enrich their own lives and make positive contributions to their community. The Thompson T. Egbo-Egbo Arts Foundation has created Evolving Through the Arts program, and exposes students to rhythm and music, encourages them to create and/or learn lyrics, and to explore and develop performance sills that are showcased in public. This is Evolving through the arts.

The foundation works to advance gender and racial equity for women and girls across Arizona by combining nonpartisan research, policy advocacy, grantmaking, and direct programs. It funds and grows community-led initiatives, informs policy with research, and invests in organizations that support women’s economic and civic participation.

The Canadian Journalism Foundation promotes excellence in journalism by celebrating outstanding journalistic achievement through an annual awards program; by operating journalism websites, J-Source.ca (English) and ProjetJ.ca (French), in cooperation with the country’s leading journalism schools; and by organizing events that facilitate dialogue among journalists, business people, government officials, academics and students about the role of the media in Canadian society; and by fostering opportunities for journalism education, training and research.

The Military C&E Museum Foundation is a non-share "friends of the Museum" charitable corporation established in 1985 to provide support to the Military Communications and Electronics Museum (C&E Museum). It is a non-DND agency dedicated to assisting the C&E Museum to fulfill its mission to receive, preserve and display equipments, artifacts and documents pertaining to military communications and electronics concerning Canada or Canadians. The Museum is also mandated to further the general morale and welfare of and to provide amenities for or concerning Canadian military C&E personnel and their activities.

The Human Development Foundation has been operating community-building programs in the several poverty-stricken areas of Pakistan for 10 years. HDF follows the Human Development philosophy of "helping people help themselves" HDF has mobilized and organized communities and helped them build and staff health care facilities, open and staff schools, build dams and water pumps so entire villages could have fresh, safe drinking water, build roads to join communities and create micro-credit programs that allow individuals and communities to break the cycle of poverty and have a sustainable opportunity for self-sufficiency. HDF provides a grassroots level, multidisciplinary approach to development that is increasingly being viewed as the most applicable by both academics and practitioners in the field. In each year of its existence, it has grown and has helped, at the grassroots level, more and more people. Today, over 200,000 have been direct recipients of HDF services.