Charitable Giving
Bless Churches & Ministries You Care About
The Foundation partners with WatersEdge to provide tax-advantaged giving options that benefit you and the ministries you support. To find the right option for you, explore the giving vehicles below on the WatersEdge website or contact a WatersEdge giving professional at 800-949-9988 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Donor Advised Fund
Multiply gifts, maximize tax benefits and simplify the giving process — all online.
Charitable Remainder Trust
Make a charitable gift, earn income for yourself and your loved ones and maximize tax advantages.
IRA Charitable Rollover
If you’re 70 1/2 years of age or older, you can give charitably and reduce income tax by making gifts directly from your IRA.
Endowment
Leave a legacy gift that will keep on giving to the ministries you love, long after you’re gone.
Beneficiary Designation
Give assets like a life insurance policy or retirement plan to ministry after your passing.
Charitable Giving Testimonial
I decided that the best vehicle for me was a Charitable Remainder Trust (CRT). By using a CRT, I could donate some highly appreciated stock and not pay any capital gains taxes, get a contribution tax deduction, and get a guaranteed income for life. I could then support the Christian charities of my choice with the endowment that remained until Jesus comes again.
I also set up a “Donor Advisory Fund” (DAF). With this fund I can make a current gift and then decide periodically what Christian charity I want to make a gift to.
Scholarships
The Baptist Foundation of Indiana is proud to administer funds established by generous donors to provide scholarships to Indiana Baptists. During the past 42 years, we have awarded over $253,000 in scholarships to 656 applicants!
Scholarship funds are available to assist in college tuition costs for members of State Convention of Baptists in Indiana (SCBI) churches, who are called to and preparing for vocational ministry. Scholarship funds are limited and are awarded based on need and parameters set by scholarship fund donors. Scholarships are not available for doctoral candidates. The Foundation accepts applications beginning November 1 for the following Fall/Spring academic school year. Applications and supportive documentation must be received by April 1 in order to be considered for a scholarship. Scholarship awards are determined in May.
Due to changes to the Foundation’s scholarship program, no scholarships will be awarded for the 2022-2023 academic year. Applications for the 2023-2024 academic year will be accepted starting January 1, 2023.
2021 Scholarship Recipients
PAUL AKINOLA
Master of Divinity Student
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
KIRK BOKENKAMP
Master of Divinity Student
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
ANDREW BRENNER
Youth Ministry Student
Taylor University
HALLIE BRENNER
Christian Ministry Student
Taylor University
DAVID KEFFLER
Masters of Divinity Student
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
ISAAC MANG
Biblical Counseling Student
College of Biblical Studies, Indianapolis
CHRISTOPHER MANN
Masters of Divinity Student
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
TAYLOR QUINLEY
Master of Divinity Student
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
BETHANY RILEY
Missiology Student
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Scholarship Testimonials
I am so grateful and honored and want to say thank you for your generosity – your scholarship will help me to achieve my educational and ministry goals. It will help me have more time for studies, family, and ministry in the church and the church.
My family and I are continually amazed at how God has provided for us during this season of life. Certainly, receiving this year's BFI Scholarship is evidence of God’s providential care. In covering a significant portion of this year’s tuition, I am able to continue pursuing my call to church ministry without the fear of placing school on “pause” to save the necessary funds.
My special thanks to [scholarship] donors. You are a channel of blessing. With your obedience to give financial offerings to God, the ministry that God has called me into will be made possible. Please remember that you are always part of the ministry.
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