Behind every gift is
a movement of God.
Notice every one.

THE STATE OF GIVING DISCIPLESHIP — THE RESEARCH
01
19%
For every five new givers, four never return
First-time retention: 19% — lowest ever recorded · 2024
Fundraising Effectiveness Project
02
$
$84T
The largest wealth transfer in history — churches barely positioned
$84T changing hands by 2045 · ~$12T projected to charity
Cerulli Associates
03
today1933
−43%
Giving is a smaller share of income than in 1933
3.3% in 1933 · about 2% today · down 43% since 1968
empty tomb · State of Church Giving
04
63%
of churches thank a giver just once a year
63% once a year · 94% acknowledge quarterly or less
Lake Institute · NSCEP
05
12
After a second gift, retention triples — the first 90 days decide
~19% after gift one → ~60% after gift two
FEP · Sargeant research
06
93%
93% would give again — if simply thanked promptly & personally
93% would repeat · 64% would give more
Burk · Cygnus donor research
07
90%
Churches that watch their giving grow — almost all of them
90% of giving-attentive churches reported growth
Lake Institute · NSCEP
Every number sourced — see the research →
The difference

The same family.
Two ways of seeing.

What software sees
TXN #2011 · $40.00 · Henderson · Sep 14 · Cleared ✓
TXN #2087 · $40.00 · Henderson · Oct 5  · Cleared ✓
… 41 more rows, $60 weekly …
TXN #3901 · $60.00 · Henderson · May 12 · Cleared ✓
·  ·  ·
TXN #4210 · $2,500 · Henderson · Jul 20 · Cleared ✓
Every row identical in kind. The story between them — invisible.
What a pastor sees
Sep 14 — first gift FIRST GIFT
The Hendersons gave for the first time. A thank-you went out that week.
Oct 5 — they gave again GAVE AGAIN
Three weeks after their first — then steady, every week, for months.
May 12 — the rhythm breaks GONE QUIET
Faithful weekly, then silence. Flagged — a caring call reached them in a hard season.
Jul 20 — $2,500, unannounced UNUSUAL GIFT
memo: "Thank you for the call. For the food pantry."
Every one of these surfaced the week it happened — response drafted, sent only by you.
Straight from Your Monday page.

Same records. Different eyes. Banyen is the second pair — built into the records you already keep.

The full product, live — no signup, no upload

Estimate your church.
Then explore the actual product.

Set your weekly attendance and annual giving, and we'll generate a full, realistic congregation at your scale — then drop you into the real Banyen app to explore every screen as if it were your data.

Launch the interactive demo →
Opens the full Banyen app with realistic sample data generated at your church's scale.
What Banyen watches for

Easy to miss.
Never missed again.

Every one of these is already in your giving records, waiting to be seen. Reports tell you what happened. Banyen hands you Monday's list: who needs a word from you — this week.

Churches don't lose families loudly. They lose them quietly — one skipped Sunday at a time.

The Quiet Truth drift

Every family tagged by where they are on the generosity journey — first-time, consistent, drifting, lapsed, major. When a family falls off their own rhythm, you know in weeks, not at month six when someone finally asks "whatever happened to the Booths?" You get a short list. You make the call. Because a broken giving rhythm is often a family telling the truth about a hard season — before they've said it out loud. Sometimes the call is the first time anyone asked.

First gift — the Transthank-you ready
3 weeks quiet — the Boothscheck-in call
Unusual gift — the Kellerspersonal call
GRACE FELLOWSHIP
Somebody gave for the first time last Sunday. Did anyone say thank you?

The First Trust first-time givers

A first gift is rarely about money — it's the moment trust finally reached the wallet. So every one gets a real response. Some pastors mail the letter — on your letterhead, logo and watermark in place, batch-printed with matching Avery labels, in Monday's mail. Some send it as an email. Some just want the name and the story, and make the call themselves. Banyen drafts the words and hands you the who and the why — the how stays yours. Year-end tax statements come from the same data.

A first gift says "I want to belong here." A receipt is not an answer.
"I don't want to know what people give." Good — then don't.

The Conviction Kept hide the amounts

One toggle shows or hides every dollar figure across the entire product. The alerts, the statuses, the call lists — all of it keeps working. Convictions are honored here, not configured around: it's the only giving tool built for both kinds of pastor — the one who studies the numbers, and the one who never wants to see them.

Hide giving amounts — on
Shepherd the people. The numbers are optional.
A handful of families may carry more of your ministry than you realize. When did they last get a call that wasn't an ask?

The Faithful Few major givers

Quarterly touchpoints scheduled for every major-giving family. An alert the week an unusual gift lands — while a call still feels personal, not transactional. Every conversation logged, so the relationship has a memory.

A Monday digest lists whose touchpoint is due. Rhythm survives busy weeks.
"How's giving?" shouldn't be answered with a shrug.

The Whole Story board meeting mode

Participation. Per-attendee giving. How concentrated you are in a handful of families. Every metric benchmarked against published giving research and explained in plain English — the analysis big churches staff a whole role for.

62% participation · $57 / attendee / week · top 1% share — at a glance.

No sales call. No "book a demo." The whole product is running right above this section — set two sliders to your church's size and see your Monday morning. If it isn't obviously worth it, close the tab. No hard feelings.

Try it right now ↑

One setup — linked or uploaded — then Monday takes care of itself.

Every feature, mapped and explained → How Banyen works

Simple, per-church pricing

Priced to be an easy yes,
next to what you already pay.

No payment processing, no per-transaction fees — Banyen is the intelligence layer on top of whatever giving system you already use. What megachurches staff a team to notice, Banyen hands the church of 200 every Monday morning — for less than one family's month of giving. And your price is never based on your giving.

Monthly
Annual 2 months free
Everything included

Banyen

The whole product, for one church. One price — never priced on your giving, never a feature held back.
$99/mo
billed monthly
  • Weekly CSV upload & full tag engine
  • First-time, consistent, drifting & lapsed detection
  • Major Giver workflow, quarterly scheduler & notable-gift alerts
  • Letters, labels & year-end statements on your letterhead
  • Full health, benchmark & concentration metrics
  • Monday-morning email digest
  • Staff seats for your whole team
Start with Banyen
Multi-campus, networks & denominations

More than one congregation?

Multi-campus churches, districts, dioceses, networks, and church-planting organizations — because every rollout looks different, we scope and price these together, one conversation at a time.

Talk to us about a network plan →

Every plan starts in the live demo — no card, no signup, no upload required.

Networks · Denominations · Multi-campus churches

Bringing Banyen to a whole family of churches? There's a partnership for that — provided by your network as a gift to every church, with an aggregate view of generosity across the whole network. Never an individual record.

SEE IT AT YOUR NETWORK'S SCALE →

Your giving records are full of people
waiting to be noticed.

The full product is running above — no signup, no upload, no sales call. See who would need a personal word at your church this Monday.

See your church's Monday list ↑

Not ready? Take the 3-minute Visibility Assessment — ten questions, instant result.