Our main purposes are to be an educational resource, to expose listeners to jazz and educate them to the different varieties of jazz, to provide a link to resources promoting the local jazz industry, and to support local jazz artists and jazz venues.

The Indianapolis Jazz Foundation presents clinics in area schools, provides jazz workshops in the community, and provides jazz scholarships to deserving young musicians who may otherwise not have access to a jazz education. We also promote jazz as an art form and celebrate Indianapolis' jazz heritage through our IJF Hall of Fame and our Oral Histories project.