While Earlham appreciates every gift it receives each year, Leadership Gifts play an indispensible role in ensuring the financial well-being of the College. While comprising only 13% of Earlham’s total donor base, leadership givers each year provide approximately 60% of the total amount of charitable support the College receives.

Beginning this year, Earlham has instituted seven Leadership Giving societies and two societies that recognize consistent giving to the College. Learn more about these societies.

A leadership gift can establish an endowment that the College holds in perpetuity. Learn more about endowing a fund.

Naming Opportunities

An endowed gift is an investment in the future strength and success of Earlham — a gift that the College holds in perpetuity. The goal is to ensure that the principal maintains its value over time. Thus, a donor who creates an endowed gift today can be confident that it will grow and continue to support Earlham in the years to come.

Endowed gifts allow friends to:

• Give generously while uniquely expressing causes or priorities that matter most
• Ensure financial security for future generations of Earlhamites

Endowed Scholarships

Naming Opportunities

Earlham strives to make its high-quality education accessible to students regardless of their present family income. Earlham provides two types of scholarship opportunities:

• Annual scholarship: A minimum gift of $2,500 for a deserving student in a single year
• Endowed scholarship: A minimum gift of $50,000 where the fund's income is awarded to a student, but the principal gift is never spent

Scholarship Recipient Survey

Planned gifts are among the most meaningful to make and to receive. Not only do they provide important support for ASIL education programs, but they can also offer considerable tax advantages to you and can be surprisingly easy to set up.

Use the Planned Giving web site to learn more and find the right gift for you.

Earlham welcomes gifts made in memory or honor of alumni, friends, or other individuals.

To make an Honorary or Memorial gift by check, please make it payable to "Earlham College" and mail to:

Institutional Advancement
Earlham College
801 National Road West
Richmond, IN 47374-4095

Or contact the Institutional Advancement Office at 765-983-1313 to make your gift by credit card or use our online form.

When making a gift, please note the individual who is being honored or memorialized with the gift. If you would like us to notify the individual or a family member than an honorary or memorial gift was made, please include their name and address.

The IRA charitable rollover is back. Individuals 70½ and older now have the ability to transfer up to $100,000 annually directly from their individual retirement accounts to a qualified charitable organization without being subject to income taxes on the distribution.

Important! IRA distributions are sent directly to us from your plan administrator and often do not indicate that they are from your IRA. In order for us to properly credit the gift to you and to send the correct tax documentation, it is very helpful for you to notify us that your gift will be coming from your IRA.

For more information, visit the Planned Giving website.

Earlham gladly accepts gifts-in-kind that are appropriate to its mission but also maintains the right to decline any gift that does not fit with its mission or would be too costly to maintain.

The College also requires a transfer of ownership letter for all gifts-in-kind and a valid independent appraisal (at the donor’s expense) for gifts valued at $5,000 or greater.

In the case of gifts to the Permanent Art Collection, gifts of art will be accepted only if the curator has reviewed the proposed donation prior to acceptance (this can be done through photographs, correspondence or visit to the prospective donor). All objects must be accompanied by the following documentation: appraisal; correspondence; catalogue entry or other publication; provenance information (such as chain of ownership; purchase receipts); and a letter from the donor).

Faculty and staff come from a wide array of backgrounds and experiences to work at this campus, but are united as a part of the Earlham family.

It might seem strange, giving an employer back part of one's salary. But here, Earlham is more than just a workplace, it’s a community that supports and encourages one another. An employee gift to the Earlham Fund has a direct and immediate impact on life at Earlham through support of student financial aid, campus enhancements, and sustainability efforts, among other aspects.

Learn about Employee Giving options, including payroll deduction.