For churches

# Giving records your treasurer can trust.

Every gift paid through Stripe, monthly, yearly or one-time, becomes a signed receipt and a line in sealed, replayable books. Givers can check their own receipts, no account.

[Get early access](https://trifold.app/early-access?role=church) [See planned non-profit pricing](https://trifold.app/pricing?org=np)

-   ✓ Signed receipts givers can check themselves.
-   ✓ A sealed month for every board meeting, not a spreadsheet.
-   ✓ Open exports for your accountant: hledger, Parquet and CSV.
-   ✓ Year-end giving statements, one per giver.Later

Simulated · invented names · synthetic data

## A year of giving, simulated.

Cedar Hill Community Church is invented. A seeded scenario runs its year through the engine, hledger and DuckDB, and all three give the same KPI hash. Its demo dashboard, below, shows the KPIs from the same runs. Run it yourself with the command on the card. See [every preset](https://trifold.app/proof#simulations) and [where the simulations simplify](https://trifold.app/proof#simplify).

### Churches

Simulated

Cedar Hill Community Church, a simulated church.

In their words: givers · giving · gifts · roof campaign

What's modelled

-   –Sixty households give $25, $50, $100 or $250 a month, or the same yearly
-   –About a quarter give yearly
-   –Some add a one-time gift, a roof-campaign gift or a retreat registration
-   –A few mistaken gifts refunded, often in part
-   –A nonprofit card rate: 2.2% + 30¢

church-giving · seed 301 · 2026-01..2026-12

A year of giving at four fixed levels, monthly or yearly, with one-time and roof-campaign gifts.

Giving collected gross\_collected

$68,050

New givers new\_paying\_members

82

Givers giving last month paying\_members\_last\_month

52

Recurring giving last month mrr

$5,655

$ scenarios describe church-giving

KPIs each preset produces

Giving collected · Net income · Refunds · Disputes · Stripe fees · Payouts · Payments · New givers · Givers giving last month · Recurring giving (MRR) · New, expansion, contraction and churned MRR · Net new MRR · Credits granted, consumed and expired

[How the orgs are simulated ↗](https://github.com/justbry/tfd/blob/dev/packages/atm/docs/scenario-orgs.md)

Cedar Hill Community Church · demo dashboard

Demo, synthetic data. [Open the dashboard full screen ↗](https://trifold.app/demo/orgs/church.html) [All five demo dashboards ↗](https://trifold.app/demo/orgs/index.html)

## Three things that weigh on a church treasurer

### 1\. Giving records the treasurer trusts

Monthly and yearly gifts at each giving level, one-time gifts and the roof campaign arrive through Stripe, then end up in a spreadsheet one person understands.

**How Trifold answers it** (chapters 01 and 02, Money in and Books): every gift lands as an event and posts as balanced books, automatically. Corrections are new events, never edits, so the record of what was given doesn’t quietly change.

### 2\. A monthly report to the board

**How Trifold answers it** (chapter 03, Proof): seal each month before the board meets. A seal is a signed fingerprint of the month’s gifts; anyone holding it can check that the month hasn’t changed since.

### 3\. Givers asking for their year’s total

**How Trifold answers it:** today, every gift has a receipt signed with your church’s key, and a giver can check it on the verify page without an account. Your books export to hledger, Parquet and CSV for your accountant. Year-end giving statements, one per giver, are on the roadmap, marked Later.

## Planned pricing

Churches get the planned non-profit pricing on the [pricing page](https://trifold.app/pricing?org=np). It is a plan, not an offer, and may change before launch.

## Questions

**Is giving a fixed amount?**

Not for you. The simulation uses four fixed giving levels ($25, $50, $100 and $250 a month, or the same yearly) because that's how the scenario generator is built. A real church sets its own prices in Stripe, and the books record each gift at the amount Stripe charged.

**Can givers get a year-end giving statement?**

Not yet. Year-end giving statements and donation acknowledgments are on the roadmap, marked Later. Today each gift has a signed receipt the giver can check, and your accountant gets the books in open formats.

**Does a receipt show the giver's name?**

No. The signed record carries the gift's amount, the date, the Stripe record and a hash of the event in your books. No name, no email, so a receipt can be shown to anyone.

**Do you file anything for us?**

No. We prepare records; we don't file taxes or returns.

## Giving records that show their work.

Books **✓**·Receipt **✓**·Stripe **✓**

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