At Seraphim Tattoo Studio, we believe that art has the power to transform—not just skin, but hearts and lives. Every tattoo tells a story, and now, yours can leave a lasting impact far beyond the ink.
As part of our Pay It Forward initiative, 11% of every tattoo's income will be donated directly to a charity of your choice from our list of designated local organizations. These charities are carefully chosen to support and uplift our community, ensuring that your tattoo doesn’t just leave a mark on your skin, but also on the world around you.
This initiative is more than just giving back—it’s about aligning artistry with purpose, about turning personal transformation into collective good. Whether you're getting a tattoo to honor a memory, celebrate a milestone, or express your individuality, you’re also contributing to something bigger than yourself.
So when you sit in the chair at Seraphim Tattoo Studio, know that your experience is about more than just artwork—it’s about impact. Your story, your art, your choice—to wear something meaningful and to give something meaningful in return.
By choosing where your donation goes, you’re not just getting a tattoo—you’re making a statement about the kind of world you want to help create. Together, let’s create something that touches both skin and soul.
COMMUNITY
Community Charities – Helping Hands, Changing Lives
Our Community Charities list features local organizations dedicated to uplifting and supporting people in need. Whether it’s providing food and shelter, supporting mental health initiatives, or empowering individuals through education and resources, these charities are working tirelessly to strengthen our community. When you choose to donate to one of these organizations, you’re directly contributing to the well-being of those around us—turning your tattoo into a source of hope and positive change.
ENVIRONMENT
Environment Charities – Protecting Nature, Preserving Life
For those who feel called to give back to the earth and its creatures, our Environment Charities list focuses on organizations dedicated to wildlife conservation, animals in need, sustainability, and environmental restoration. From protecting endangered species to cleaning up our waters and forests, these groups are fighting to keep our planet thriving. Your contribution helps ensure that the beauty of nature, like the beauty of your tattoo, will be cherished for generations to come.
Community Charities
The Cambridge Self Help Foodbank
The Cambridge Food Bank offers food and support to people and community groups in need within Cambridge and North Dumfries.
Women’s Crisis Services Waterloo
Women’s Crisis Services of Waterloo Region (WCSWR) empowers and supports women and children to move beyond violence by providing safe shelter, outreach services, prevention and education.
Family and Children’s Services Foundation
The role of the Family & Children's Services of the Waterloo Region (FACS) is to respond and work together with families, their supports and our communities to protect and care for children who have been abused or neglected, or who are at risk of being abused or neglected.
The Food Bank of Waterloo Region
Founded in 1984, The Food Bank of Waterloo Region (The Food Bank) was the first organization of its kind in Ontario dedicated to providing emergency food. Forty years after incorporation, The Food Bank continues to evolve to meet the community’s needs so that no one in Waterloo region experiences hunger.
Brantford Food Bank
The Brantford Food Bank is a non-profit organization in Brantford, Ontario that provides emergency food kits to those in need, as well as other programs.
Nova Vita Domestic Violence Prevention Services
Serving Brantford and the County of Brant for over 40 years, Nova Vita provides trauma-informed emergency shelter, outreach support, and counselling services to individuals and families experiencing abuse, as well as counselling for individuals who have caused harm in their relationships.
National Service Dogs
National Service Dogs strives to empower people to achieve their full potential, with strategically trained, Certified Service Dogs as catalysts for restorative change.
Seeds
SEEDS – Supporting Every Eve’s Daughter Safely – was established in 2018 to address the rising crisis of sex-trafficking and exploitation in Canada.
Lisaard & Innisfree Hospice
We provide exceptional palliative care in a home-like setting for individuals living with, and dying from, a terminal illness. We help individuals live the remainder of their lives as fully as possible, respecting their dignity and supporting their autonomy.
Argus Residence
Argus is an innovative, award-winning charity located in Cambridge, Ontario. Argus’ vision is for everyone to have a place to call home and opportunities to thrive.
Shelter Movers
Shelter Movers is a national, volunteer-powered charitable organization providing moving and storage services at no cost to individuals and families fleeing abuse. We collaborate with local businesses and community agencies to support people, primarily women and children, as they transition to a life free of violence.
Alzheimer’s Society Waterloo Region
Alzheimer Society Waterloo Wellington supports persons living with dementia and their families, in living well with a dementia diagnosis.
House of Friendship
House of Friendship is a Waterloo Region-based nonprofit organization that provides food, housing, addiction treatment and neighbourhood support to individuals and families. With the tremendous support of this community, we help more than 42,000 individuals each year.
Tim Horton’s Foundational Camp
With outdoor education, development programming, and mentorship, we provide opportunity and help young people take control of their life, give back to their neighbourhood and realize their potential.
The Salvation Army
The Salvation Army is a Christian organization that gives hope and support to vulnerable people in 400 communities across Canada and in 134 countries. The Salvation Army exists to share the love of Jesus Christ, meet human needs and be a transforming influence in the communities of our world.
Dreamcatcher Charitable Founadation
We are a provincially recognized philanthropic organization dedicated to building healthy and vibrant Indigenous communities. Our funding supports health, education, arts & culture, and recreation & sports to further develop our youth into healthy thinkers, creators, and leaders to build a brighter future. By focusing on families and their children, we provide access to temporary clean drinking water and programs they may otherwise not be able to afford.
Indigenous Youth Roots
As a national Indigenous youth-led organization, we collaborate with communities to provide programs, grants and opportunities that are grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing and being and designed to strengthen and amplify the voices of Indigenous youth. Indigenous Youth Roots (IYR) is a registered charity that provides Indigenous-based leadership, learning, and experiences to every youth that participates in our programs.
Hope Story
Local churches around the world are answering Jesus’ call and serving the poor in their own communities. But for many of the churches we partner with, their resources are too limited to reach all who come to them malnourished, unable to afford school fees, or needing other support to thrive. Hope Story mobilizes resources for this locally-led church outreach and connects you with sustainable ways to help vulnerable children access education, health, and discipleship in strong communities through local churches.
Sick Kids Foundation
SickKids Foundation believes that fighting for the health and wellbeing of children is one of the most powerful ways to improve society. And that starts with supporting the hospital. By fundraising in support of the hospital’s Precision Child Health initiative, we are realizing our vision – we are healing the future.
The Bridges - Cambridge Shelter Corp
We focus on helping individuals experiencing homelessness to make positive changes in their lives. Support is provided through our daily drop-in programs. Delivered using the wraparound model, our supports include meals, overnight accommodations, group activities, and a chaplaincy program among others.
Church on the River
Our goals are to implement a meaningful community-wide initiative to spread hope and awareness regarding mental health, and to spread kidness; let people know they matter. Stick up for the underdogs. Be a voice for those who can't speak. Do something bigger than ourselves and our school.
Environmental Charities
Cambridge and District Humane Society
Cambridge & District Humane Society carries out the mission of providing safe and happy homes for all pets. While the animals in our shelter await their forever homes, we do all we can to provide a comfortable and productive environment here at the Humane Society.
Ontario SPCA and Humane Society
The Ontario SPCA and Humane Society is a registered charity that has been operating for over 150 years. The Society provides care, comfort and compassion to animals in need in communities across Ontario. It values all animals and advocates to treat them with respect and kindness.
Ontario Wildlife Rescue
Our primary goal is to connect people who have found injured or orphaned wild animals with those who can look after them and get them back into the wilds. Through a network of rehabilitators and wildlife rescue centres across Ontario we try to save as may wild animals as possible.
Canadian Wildlife Federation
The Canadian Wildlife Federation is a national, not-for-profit charitable organization dedicated to conserving Canada’s wildlife and habitats. Since its inception in 1962, the team at the Canadian Wildlife Federation has been spreading knowledge of human impacts on wildlife and the environment, carrying out actions to conserve and restore species and habitats, developing and delivering conservation education programs, advocating for changes to government policy and programs, and co-operating with like-minded partners.
WWF Canada
World Wildlife Fund Canada is the country’s largest international conservation organization. Guided by the best scientific analysis and Indigenous knowledge, we work to conserve species at risk, protect threatened habitats, and address climate change. Our long-term vision is simple: to create a world where nature and people thrive.
Oceans North Conservation Society
Oceans North does marine conservation differently. We develop programs and policies to address the threats facing northern marine ecosystems by listening, learning, and understanding the unique challenges facing the communities where we work.
The David Suzuki Foundation
Founded in 1990, the David Suzuki Foundation is a national, bilingual non-profit organization headquartered in Vancouver, with offices in Toronto and Montreal. Through evidence-based research, education and policy analysis, we work to conserve and protect the natural environment, and help create a sustainable Canada. We regularly collaborate with non-profit and community organizations, all levels of government, businesses and individuals.
The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada
At the Jane Goodall Institute of Canada, we’re building a better, more sustainable world through community-centred conservation programs that support the intersection of animals, people, and the environment. We’re continuing the work that Jane started in Africa more than 60 years ago. And we’re bringing that work home to the 49th parallel. Join us. And turn hope into action.
Sato Saved
Sato Saved End of the Line Dog Rescue & Rehabilitation was founded in 2016 out of passion and love for ensuring the safety and well-being of dogs of all kinds. We take on at-risk dogs that are in immediate need of respite due to euthanasia risk, medical needs or abandonment.
Halfway Home K9 Rescue
Established in 2020, Halfway Home K9 Rescue is a Canadian registered not for profit dog rescue with a mission of helping dogs who need us most. We are a 100% foster based rescue commited to finding forever homes for dogs in Ontario. With our network of hardworking volunteers, fosters and other community partners, our goal is to place every dog in their best matched home.
Cedar Row Farm Sanctuary
Cedar Row Sanctuary has been operating for more than 24 years as a place of hope for animals rescued from abuse, neglect and slaughter. Abuse that happens at meat, milk, and egg farms. Since it was established, the farm has rescued hundreds of farm animals including pigs, cows, goats, sheep, donkeys, rabbits, turkeys, chickens, ducks and geese.
The Donkey Sanctuary of Canada
The Donkey Sanctuary of Canada is a not-for-profit licensed charity. Our mission is to provide a lifelong home to donkeys, mules and hinnies that are unwanted, neglected or abused and we promote the responsible stewardship of all animals through humane education. We envision a world in which the dignity and worth of all creatures are recognized and respected.
Aspen Valley Wildlife Sanctuary
Our goal at Aspen Valley is to care for injured and orphaned wildlife. Once rehabilitated, we release these animals back into the wild for a second chance. Aspen Valley also provides forever homes for native species that cannot be released back into the wild due to human interference.
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society
The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) is Canada’s only charity dedicated to the protection of public land, freshwater and ocean with a strong national and regional presence across the country. Working in a way that respects the sovereignty and leadership of Indigenous nations, we are focused on conserving nature to respond to the dual crises of accelerated biodiversity loss and climate change.
Rare Charitable Research Reserve
We are a community-driven urban land trust and environmental research institute protecting over 1,200 acres of ecologically significant lands across eight properties in Waterloo Region and Wellington County. Conservation is our priority, promoting a biodiverse and sustainable world for everybody’s health and well-being, now and for the future.
Grand River Conservation Authority
The Grand River Conservation Authority (GRCA) manages water and other natural resources on behalf of 38 municipalities and close to one million residents of the Grand River watershed. The GRCA is a partnership of watershed municipalities, and provides an avenue to work together, addressing environmental issues and opportunities that serve to benefit the entire Grand River watershed.
Conservation Halton
The Conservation Halton Foundation is a registered charitable organization that works to protect our natural areas, connect our community with nature and inspire individuals and groups to create meaningful change.
The Hamilton Aviary
The Hamilton Aviary is a sanctuary for displaced exotic birds who through no fault of their own needed rehoming. Today, we are Canada's oldest public aviary. Using the volunteer bond, The Hamilton Aviary is able to advocate for exotic birds, rehabilitate and retrain them, and educate and foster a deeper knowledge of what these beautiful creatures are truly capable of. All for the love of birds.