Donating financial securities, such as stocks, to your church through the Arkansas Baptist Foundation offers numerous benefits. By donating appreciated assets, you can avoid capital gains taxes and may deduct the asset’s full market value, maximizing your impact. The Arkansas Baptist Foundation simplifies the process, often providing these services to you at no cost, so you can focus on the joy of giving while ensuring your contributions leave a lasting legacy aligned with your faith and values. Directing your gifts of securities to the Foundation saves your church the hassle of creating and maintaining an investment account, and navigating the liquidation and receipt of a non-cash gift.

To initiate the transfer, provide our transfer instructions to your stock broker. Please notify the Foundation of your incoming gift.

Please do not specifiy a price at which we are to sell the securities. Doing so could have negative tax implications. A gift will be receipted when the securities are transferred into the Foundation’s name. The securities will then be sold imediately at their market prices, unless the charity informs the Foundation before the  gift is made that whey wish to hold the securities in their name.