Indianapolis Center for Congregations

About Indianapolis Center for Congregations

A defining pattern in Indianapolis Center for Congregations Inc’s recent giving is its use of large, targeted support for congregations working on community-facing projects. In 2025, The Way Church in Indianapolis and Crossroads Community Church in Kokomo each received $100,000 through Congregations with Community, while South Bend City Church and La Iglesia Bautista de Oakhill each received $75,000 from the same initiative. That program sits alongside matching and special grants designed to help Indiana congregations fund a wide range of expenses, resources, and activities tied to congregational life and community impact. The foundation’s grantmaking centers on Indiana congregations, with support that can reach facility repair, programming, outreach, and leadership development. Its portfolio also includes mental health work for faith communities, showing that congregational support is not limited to buildings or budgets. Recent grants also include awards to Israel Metropolitan CME Church in Gary and Flourish Church in Gary, both through Congregations with Community, reinforcing the organization’s emphasis on local congregational capacity and neighborhood engagement. Across the recent record, the Center funds churches and faith communities as institutions that serve both members and surrounding communities.

What Indianapolis Center for Congregations Funds

Mental health is a distinct line of work for the foundation. In 2025, it gave $40,000 to Unitarian Universalist Church in Bloomington, Iglesia Aposento in Columbus, The Pentecostals of Nashville in Nashville, LifeWell Christian Church in Crown Point, Progressive Community Church International in Gary, Canvas Community Church in Fort Wayne, St Maria Goretti Catholic Church in Dyer, and Bachelor Creek Church of Christ in Wabash through Mental Health Special Grants. The foundation also supports congregational capacity and community engagement through Congregations with Community. That program included $100,000 to The Way Church in Indianapolis and Crossroads Community Church in Kokomo, as well as $75,000 to South Bend City Church and La Iglesia Bautista de Oakhill in Evansville. Matching and special grants are part of the same pattern: they are built to help Indiana congregations address a wide range of expenses, projects, and ministry needs. Another recurring theme is practical support for local church operations and ministry development, including facility repair, outreach, and programmatic expenses.

How Indianapolis Center for Congregations Gives