Help your church recover up to $45K in giving each year
Care for the families behind the numbers.
Giving Steward quietly notices when a family's giving changes, like an expired card, a failed gift or a slow drift away. It shows you who might need attention. Then your team decides: a personal call, a pastoral visit, a warm email, or simply leaving them be.
Annualized at risk
$45,670
Eight deterministic signals
The agent monitors eight different signals & alerts you of pastoral moments to engage.
Clear reasons, not just alerts
We show exactly what we noticed, like a missed gift or an expiring card, before anyone is contacted.
You're in control
Choose a personal visit, an email you approve, an automatic sequence, or no contact at all.
MOST GIVING DOESN'T STOP ON PURPOSE.
Eight ways a gift quietly stops. Each one caught and a care plan created.
Most lapsed giving is mechanical, not intentional. Six signals watch recurring givers and two watch occasional givers. The agent reads your schedules and gift history like a careful bookkeeper would, and flags exactly what needs a human eye.
Card expiring
The card on a recurring gift expires within 60 days. Flagged before the first failure.
Card expired
The card on file has already passed its expiry. Every scheduled gift will now fail.
On hold
A schedule was paused and never resumed — months later, the pause is forgotten.
Silent failure
Gifts are failing while the schedule still reads active. Nobody gets a notice.
Gradual lapse
A steady giver quietly misses their usual cadence. Often signs of financial or spiritual trouble that could use pastoral care.
Downgrade
A recurring amount drops sharply from its established level, or the cadence stretches.
Occasional giver — long silence
Someone who gives now and then, without a schedule, has gone much longer than usual without a gift.
Occasional giver — giving decreased
An occasional giver's recent gifts have become noticeably smaller or less frequent than their usual pattern.
Your team stays in charge
You decide what happens next.
Every finding is a suggestion, not an instruction. Giving Steward surfaces real needs in your congregation so you can do ministry and care for your people well.
Reach out personally
Create a care task and assign it to a pastor or staff member for a call, visit or coffee. They get a reminder.
Send an email you approve
AI drafts a warm note in a real person's voice, and someone on your team reviews it before it goes out.
Send automatically, if you choose
For simple cases like an expiring card, you can turn on a sequence that sends by itself. It's off until you turn it on.
Leave them alone
Add a short pastoral note, and the family is kept out of all outreach until you say otherwise.
You're always in control. Nothing reaches a family unless your team chose it.
A typical 300-person church
$25K–$45K
quietly at risk each year — roughly 5 to 8% of total giving. Giving Steward helps your team notice each family and follow up with care. With simple habits in place, a third to half of that giving often comes back along the way.
Calculate your church's numberWorks with your giving data
Three ways to bring in your data.
Pick whichever fits your church. Giving Steward brings in your givers, gifts and recurring schedules either way.
Planning Center
Connect in a couple of clicks. It can check again every night, so new needs show up on their own.
B1 Church
Connect B1 Church from ChurchApps with an API key. Nightly checks keep everything current.
Upload a CSV
Works with any giving platform or accounting service. Giving Steward matches up the columns for you.
Pastoral restraint first
The algorithm knows when not to knock.
A lapsed gift after a death in the family isn't a recovery opportunity — it's a care moment. Context notes about grief, illness or job loss suppress a household from outreach entirely, and turn the finding into a care task for a pastor instead.
- Suppression list your whole team can see and manage
- Care tasks replace outreach when a family is struggling
- Every suppression is logged — nothing happens in the dark
From the suppression log
The Whitfield household
Bereavement — husband passed in March
SUPPRESSED BY PASTOR DAN · NO OUTREACH WILL BE SENT
R. Smith
Job loss, asked not to be contacted about giving
Suppressed by finance admin
How it works
From your giving data to caring for your people, in four steps.
Bring in your giving data
Connect Planning Center or B1 Church, or upload a CSV file from any giving platform or accounting service. Giving Steward matches the columns for you and never changes your records.
The agent looks for changes
Each night, or whenever you press Run agent, it checks every giver against eight clear signals, like an expired card or giving that has slowly stopped. Families with a pastoral note are skipped.
Review and decide
Each family gets one finding, with the dates and evidence behind it. Your team chooses: a care task for a call or visit, an email you approve, an automatic sequence, or leaving them alone.
Follow through and see the fruit
Care tasks go to the person you assign, with reminders if they wait too long. When a family starts giving again, Giving Steward notices and shows what was restored.
Resources
Guides for caring for your givers well.
14 min read
Donor retention for churches: a complete guide
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The lapsed giver playbook: how to follow up pastorally
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12 min read
Expired cards and failed gifts: the hidden leak in church recurring giving
Read the guide →
12 min read
Church donor churn: how to measure it and bring it down
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