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In March 2010, HighTide Festival Theatre's artist development and rehearsal wing, the Warehouse, launched its open-access studio programme, the Genesis Laboratory, with the Genesis Foundation as Artist Development partner. The support from the Genesis Foundation enables HighTide to award bursaries to emerging playwrights, directors, and ensembles to develop their craft for a week in HighTide's Studio.

In October 2009, Spanish artist Greta Alfaro became the first beneficiary of the two-year Genesis Foundation Scholarship for a graduate artist studying at London's Royal College of Art. Joanna Piotrowska is the current beneficiary of the Genesis Scholarship for Photography at the Royal College of Art.

In June 2008 at Westminster Cathedral, The Sixteen gave premieres of three works commissioned by the Genesis Foundation: all were settings of Padre Pio's Prayer, Stay with Me Lord.  Three years later, in June 2011, three further commissions from notable British composers were performed in St.James's, Spanish Place.  In 2011, the Genesis Foundation's relationship with The Sixteen enters a new phase with the launch of Genesis Sixteen.

The Genesis Foundation formed a partnership with the Prince's Trust in 2002 to support a new strand of Creative Businesses. The aim was that these should be all new business ventures by young people that in some way were associated with the arts.

In 2002-03, as part of celebrations to commemorate the composer Robert Schumann, the Genesis Foundation presented a series of concerts at St John’s, Smith Square, in London. The artistic director behind this series was the pianist Eugene Asti, the the series was an opportunity to give young, developing opera singers a platform to show off their skills as lieder singers.

The first ever Genesis Foundation project in the visual arts The pieces that make up The Passions are displayed on digital flat panel screens that not only give a bright, sharp picture but are portable and can be exhibited in a normal gallery setting rather like the small devotional paintings whose format Viola wants to echo.

The panel for the second Genesis Opera Project met in August 2003 and selected a semi-final list of six projects for the workshops in 2004, having begun with an entry of 210 projects. The semi-final short list included: Hippocampus or Lonely; The Original Chinese Conjuror; The Tramway Conductor of Venice; The Umbrella; Push! and Sante and Augustine (as the work was then known).

In July 2003, after the first-ever season of Genesis-commissioned operas, John Studzinski, Chairman of the Genesis Opera Project, announced the outcome of the first Genesis Opera Project. The panel decided to apportion a £20,000 prize across the three creative teams in recognition of the different but very real achievements of their strong, diverse talents and approaches.

Tête à Tête was founded in 1997 and has made a particular name for producing and promoting new, small-scale operatic works.  The Genesis Foundation's collaboration with Tête à Tête was launched in 2007 with support for the company's Blind Date Tour, which presented six short operas by six different composers in the course of one evening.  Subsequently, the Foundation committed to two further years of funding.

The Genesis Foundation's support of the Director's Programme at the Young Vic reached its conclusion in Autumn 2009.  The Genesis Foundation continues its collaboration with the Young Vic in its support of the Genesis Directors Network and through the newly created, Genesis Fellowship.