Church & Congregation Management Software
The buyer population — Religious organizations
Base industry report for 8131 →- Establishments · CanadaA
- 14,253
- Under 10 employeesA
- 87%
- Establishments · USA
- 185,556
- Employment · USA
- 1,538,248
- Payroll · USA
- $42.3B
Of 14,253 Canadian establishments with employees, 87% have fewer than ten — an industry of very small operators. Each of those is one potential account, before any filter for size or fit.
Entry signal — what decides who wins here
One thing must be trueEntry turns on a single condition that can be named and tested before much is spent. Clear it and this becomes an execution question; fail it and no amount of operating skill helps.
Displace an incumbent the screen found well defended — payments attached to the workflow, data that does not leave, a contract that renews itself. Share here means giving a buyer a reason to break something that currently works, which is a higher bar than being better.
Measured, not forecast: the share of US establishments opening in one year that were still active later. It counts good operators and bad ones together, which is exactly why it is the honest answer to “what are the odds”. It is for the whole sector rather than this market, and the ten-year figure comes from an older cohort because no younger one has reached ten years.
This is not a probability of success, and it is not a verdict on you. No survival probability is published per market, and inventing one would be worse than saying so. What the bar reads is how much of the outcome sits inside an operator's control: green means the hurdles are ones a better operator clears, red means the binding constraint is capital, an asset or a permission rather than execution. Someone arriving with an advantage this screen did not assume can win a market shown in red.
Companies named in this market · 5
The binding constraint — incumbent vulnerability
Giving is the product. Ministry Brands and Pushpay both earn on donation processing and can price the management software at zero, and Planning Center holds the mid-market on goodwill and a decade of switching inertia. The same payments-attach economics as the nonprofit record at 8132, against a buyer with a smaller budget. Nothing is disclosed here. Every vendor named on this record is private, or sits inside a parent that does not break the line out, so no revenue floor can be built and the market size is genuinely unknown rather than estimated.
The incumbent
Who owns this market and who is coming for it. Fields a screen never reached say so rather than guessing.
The field
Every vendor named on this record, and what each one discloses. Most disclose nothing, which is why the market is not sized.
Competitor set · 3 named · 0 disclose revenue
| Name | Revenue | Share | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ministry BrandsC | not disclosed | — | Private (Insight Partners) |
| PushpayC | not disclosed | — | Private since the 2023 take-private |
| Planning Center / Tithe.ly / BreezeC | not disclosed | — | Private |
Nobody here publishes revenue. The market is not sized for that reason — an estimate built on nothing would only look like knowledge.
Evidence
Evidence. UNVERIFIED — screened on analyst judgment. Incumbent names and positions are from general market knowledge and were NOT independently researched for this record; no financials are attached because none were sourced. Verify before acting.
Where the industry talks
The associations, forums and events where people in this trade actually talk shop — where to listen before entering, and where the first customers are found. Each link was opened on the date shown.
Formerly Canadian Council of Christian Charities; describes itself as the largest association of Christian charities in Canada, with an accreditation program. No member count stated.
US association of church administrators (business administrators, executive pastors); runs a certification, job centre and annual conference. No member count stated.
"over 2,700 accredited members" (churches and ministries), per its About page; sets financial and giving standards
"2,000+ members" (church staff and volunteers in IT) per its home page; 20-year-old peer community; national conference Oct 4-6, 2026, Louisville KY
Church technology news and reviews site; posting fall 2026 content including a church-conference calendar
Reddit (r/ChurchTech) returned 429 to automated fetches and is not listed.