For churches and Christian ministries

Know where your church stands. Show it clearly.

Where we are. What we need. How we get there. A monthly one-page picture of your church's finances that your leaders trust and your congregation understands. No bookkeeper, no accounting degree, 15 minutes a month.

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Built by Isaac Archer, CPA · nonprofit CFO · former nonprofit auditor

GRACE FELLOWSHIP | MINISTRY SNAPSHOT SAMPLE

Giving so far$394k

Invested$408k

People served2,594

Months of cash2.9

MinistryInvestedPer person servedPace

Worship$157,840$520On pace

Kids$41,910$639On pace

Youth$44,220$1,062On pace

Missions$43,980$22Watch

Benevolence$10,000$244On pace

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What does each ministry cost per person served?

Enter your ministry areas, what you spent, and how many people you reached. The calculator gives you cost per person, share of spend, overhead ratio, and four plain-English insights to bring to your next elder meeting. Takes 10 minutes.

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How it works

Three numbers a month. One page your leaders will actually read.

Enter giving and spending

Monthly actuals by line item, each tagged to a ministry area. Your treasurer already has these numbers.

Enter one count per ministry

Kids on Sunday. Students at youth. Meals served. Households helped. Whatever you already count.

Print the Ministry Snapshot

Two color one-pagers: a leadership version with pace flags and a congregation-safe version for the annual meeting. Both written in plain language, automatically.

The product

Ministry Budget & Stewardship Dashboard

An Excel and Google Sheets workbook that does the finance team's job of turning numbers into a story. Set up in about 30 minutes. Update in about 15 minutes a month.

Budget vs. actual with automatic "On track / Watch / Over" flags
Cost per person served for every ministry area, updated monthly
Months of cash on hand and overhead ratio, always visible
Leadership Snapshot: one color page with auto-written observations
Congregation Snapshot: a safe-to-share page for the annual meeting, with your giving goal and what it takes to get there
Rename ministry areas to match your church; up to 8
Built by a CPA who has audited, run, and reported on nonprofit finances

Guarantee: run it for one month. If it isn't the clearest picture of your church's finances you've ever had, email me for a full refund.

Launching soon. A small group of churches is testing it now.

Starter

$39

Cost per Ministry Calculator Pro + the Congregation Snapshot template.

For a church that wants the annual-meeting page and nothing else.

MOST CHURCHES

Dashboard

$99

The full Ministry Budget & Stewardship Dashboard, plus:

30-minute setup video (edit, don't build)
Chart-of-accounts mapping guide
Annual Meeting Kit: congregation page + 2-minute script
AI prompt playbook for board commentary
Email support for 60 days

Notify me at launch

Stewardship Setup

$396

Send your numbers. Isaac builds your Dashboard and records a walkthrough video for your leaders.

Limited to a few churches a month.

Who's behind this

Isaac Archer, CPA

CPANonprofit CFOFormer nonprofit auditorFormer director of finance

I've spent my career on the finance side of mission-driven organizations: auditing them, running their books, and sitting in board meetings watching good people's eyes glaze over at a spreadsheet.

The numbers were never the problem. The problem was that the numbers didn't say what the money did. Talent & Ledger exists to fix that for churches and ministries, at a price a small church can say yes to.

The name comes from the parable of the talents: stewardship is judged not by what was kept, but by what the resources produced.

Articles

Plain-English church finance

Practical guides for treasurers, pastors, and elders. New article most weeks.

Coming soon