Free tool · for churches & small congregations
Free Congregation Donations Log
Giving that lives in a shoebox of envelopes and a few notebook pages is giving you can't answer questions about. This free starter is a single-tab congregation donations log: enter each gift's date, household, fund, amount, and method, and the spreadsheet totals it for you — overall and split by fund — on its own. Download it, log your gifts, and see what came in and for what at a glance. It's a taste of how the full Place-of-Worship Operations Workbook runs the whole operation from one file.
Take it with you — free, no signup
Direct download. No email, no account — just the files.
What it does
- Logs every gift on one tab — date, household, fund, amount, and method — with fund and method dropdowns.
- Adds up a running total and a by-fund summary automatically, so you see what came in and for what.
- Keeps giving in a file you own, not a per-seat app holding your congregation's data on its server.
- Opens in Excel, Google Sheets, and LibreOffice — no email, no signup.
Own it, don't rent it
Want to run the whole congregation, not just log gifts?
This free log records gifts and totals them by fund. The full Place-of-Worship Operations Workbook runs a whole small congregation from one file — pledges that track themselves from the log, one-cell year-end giving statements, a member and household directory, an events and facility calendar, a volunteer roster with clearance flags, and a live dashboard — in one connected workbook (Excel, Google Sheets, or LibreOffice) plus four guides.
A one-time purchase you keep and reuse each year — the owned workbook between a blank spreadsheet and a rented monthly congregation-management app.
A record-keeping template, not accounting software and not financial, tax, or legal advice, and it does not decide what a contribution statement must contain to be valid. The example gifts are fictional. Not affiliated with or endorsed by any faith organization. Free to use; please don't resell or redistribute.