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Portia and Allen Winchester

Giving through the Kentucky Baptist Foundation allows us to make gifts that will perpetuate our Christian witness and provide vital support to a variety of charitable causes that are important to us.

Recently we established four separate charitable gift annuities with the Kentucky Baptist Foundation. Each gift annuity ultimately benefits a different charitable organization, as well as providing us with an income for the rest of our lives. Giving through the Kentucky Baptist Foundation simplifies the giving process---instead of having to deal with the development staff of four different organizations, all we had to do was contact the knowledgeable and helpful staff at the Kentucky Baptist Foundation. The charitable gift plan options available through the Kentucky Baptist Foundation are varied and designed to meet every need. We recommend exploring the options available to you.

Shirley and Bob Wooton

Several years ago, a parcel of real estate Shirley’s parents had donated as a volunteer fire station reverted to Shirley and her brother as a result of a provision in the deed requiring title to be returned to the family if and when it was no longer used as a fire station. There was no question in our minds we should tithe the value of Shirley’s interest.

We chose to make our gift through the Kentucky Baptist Foundation. We established an endowment fund that will give support to a program providing salary and benefits to directors of missions and mission pastors in Kentucky, until the Lord returns. The Foundation’s good investment performance and below-market management fees means our endowment fund will distribute a growing stream of earnings to this vital ministry. Our modest, by some people’s standards, gift has grown through the Kentucky Baptist Foundation’s good management and we rejoice in the level of support it is now providing to a cause that is important to us.

Emma Dungan Morton

More than 40 years ago, Emma Morton and her late husband, Garnett, established a scholarship fund in memory of their son, Gene, who died at age 25 in a military plane accident. They made additional lifetime gifts to the fund and Mrs. Morton also had a provision in her Will for a final estate gift to it at her death.

A few years before her death a company in which the Mortons had purchased stock in the 1950’s was acquired by a larger company. As a result, that stock holding represented too large a portion of Mrs. Morton’s entire portfolio. She chose to make a gift of the appreciated stock to fund a charitable remainder unitrust with the Kentucky Baptist Foundation serving as trustee. She received income for the rest of her life from the unitrust, avoided the capital gains tax she would have paid if she sold the stock and no longer had “too many eggs in one basket.” At her death, the remainder of the unitrust was divided between the memorial scholarship fund and another endowment fund benefiting her church. This gift plan allowed Mrs. Morton to accomplish her charitable giving objectives----setting up a significant future gift for two causes important to her, diversifying her portfolio without incurring capital gains and significantly increasing in her income.

Susan and Roy Keith, Sr.

An inheritance is not just something parents leave their children after they have died; it is actually something they begin bequeathing to a child the moment it is born in the sense they are passing on certain life experiences that are sure to shape the child’s existence. An inheritance also does not consist only of money or physical property---it is all a parent transfers to a child in terms of opportunities, values and vision in life.

Through a unique arrangement with the Kentucky Baptist Foundation, which will utilize at the survivor’s death retirement plan assets and a donor advised fund, we have transferred to our children and grandchildren the ability to advise the future direction of charitable giving for the Keith Family. We want them to experience the joy and the blessings we have been receiving from giving and chose to do this through the Kentucky Baptist Foundation because of its proven investment performance record and below market fee. The Foundation’s donor advised fund policy allowed us to empower the next generation to make distribution recommendations and designate a trusted fiduciary, the Kentucky Baptist Foundation, to facilitate the perpetuation of the Keith family charitable giving legacy.