For Congregations & Spiritual Communities
Congregational infrastructure,
built by a congregation.
SpiritDAO is itself a 501(c)(3) church. We built this platform for our own congregational life — gathering, giving, teaching, and deciding together — and we offer it to fellowships of every tradition, with tax-deductible rails from day one.
Sound Familiar?
The burdens no fellowship should carry alone.
The 501(c)(3) wait
A new fellowship can wait a year — and spend thousands in legal fees — before a single gift is tax-deductible. Meanwhile the rent is due and the offering sits in a founder's personal account.
Trust in the collection plate
Giving flows through opaque processors and a treasurer's spreadsheet. Members give in faith — but faith shouldn't be the only audit. Transparency turns givers into stewards.
Governance by whoever stays latest
Elder boards, congregational meetings, and building votes deserve records the whole congregation can see — not decisions reconstructed from memory when disagreement comes.
What Your Congregation Gets
Everything congregational life runs on.
Services & gatherings
Recurring services, study groups, and celebrations with attendance records — and video conferencing built in for members who join from afar.
Transparent giving
Tithes and offerings flow into a treasury the congregation stewards together — every gift visible, every disbursement recorded, tax-deductible through fiscal sponsorship.
Teaching that endures
Sermons, study materials, and courses in a knowledge base your congregation owns — searchable, organized, and passed on rather than lost.
Decisions with a record
From elder-board resolutions to full congregational votes — proposals, discussion, and outcomes recorded where every member can see them.
Ministries & small groups
Give each ministry, committee, and small group its own pod — its own space, roles, budget, and conversations, within the congregation's shared home.
An assistant that knows your teachings
SensemakerAI can be trained on your congregation's own texts and practices — helping members find teachings, answer questions, and go deeper.
Tax-deductible from day one.
Through fiscal sponsorship with SpiritDAO — a registered 501(c)(3), EIN 99-1308806 — your fellowship can accept tax-deductible gifts immediately, while you decide whether to pursue your own exemption. Our administrative fee is 7.5%, below the 10–15% industry standard, with compliant fund management and reporting included.
How fiscal sponsorship works →A note on tradition.
We practice Temporal Naturalism; you don't have to. Communities on SpiritDAO keep their own tradition, teachings, and leadership. What we ask of partners is alignment with our mission — advancing the Eight Dignities, creativity, and spiritual development — not doctrinal agreement. We know what it takes to build a congregation because we are one; that experience, not conversion, is what we offer.
Gather on ground your fellowship owns.
From first gathering to full congregation — founding communities get white-glove setup and migration.