We are blessed by your generosity! The Lord is doing amazing things through Substance Church. We are honored that you’ve partnered with us financially. If you are unable to find the specific giving information that you are seeking, please feel free to email give@substancechurch.com or call 763-710-4337 and ask for a finance team member.
End of Year Giving Guide
What a joy it is to partner together, serve with our gifts, and give of our resources through the local church! At Substance, we are humbled that we can all make a difference together. Click the button below to get a glimpse of what we have been able to accomplish this year because of your generosity!
If you are planning to make a 2022 year end gift to Substance Church, you can do so online through December 31, 2021, 11:59PM! If you would like to make a cash, check or noncash donation, you can do so at our Northtown Campus through Friday, December 30, 2022, 4:00PM. If you have any questions, let us know by emailing give@substancechurch.
Make your donation go further with a corporate match!
Many Substance Church donors utilize their employer’s corporate giving program. This is a great way to leverage your donation to Substance Church and provide a larger donation. Many corporate giving programs will match a percentage of your donation to Substance Church or will provide a financial donation to Substance Church for the hours you volunteer at the church. In some cases donations to Substance Church are doubled by being matched dollar for dollar. Please contact your employer’s human resource department for more information!
Stock and non-cash giving.
Substance Church accepts stock and other noncash gifts! Donating stock and other noncash gifts can be a great way to maximize your tax savings. Please contact give@substancechurch.com for more information.
FAQ
Online giving provides a fast, easy and secure way to give one-time gifts and scheduled gifts. You can also easily edit and delete your scheduled giving, view your giving history, and download your giving statements. Types of online giving accepted include: electronic check draft (ACH), debit card and all major credit cards.
Physical check or cash can be given at church during the offering time of the service. Please make checks payable to Substance Church and place in the offering container. If you use online bill pay or otherwise prefer to mail your gift please use the following address (please do not mail cash).
Substance Church
P.O. Box 32830
Fridley MN 55432
Mobile Giving allows you to give at any time while using your mobile device via text message. Please note in order to give using a text message you must first setup an account through a web browser. After an account is setup you can give by texting “give” to the number provided at your campus followed by the dollar amount you would like to give.
Substance Church accepts non-cash gifts such as stock and cryptocurrencies. To donate stock please email give@substancechurch.com and attached the completed non-cash (in-kind) gift form located here. To donate cryptocurrencies, please click here. Non-cash gift donations include but are not limited to stocks, bonds, cryptocurrencies, land, and other real and personal property. Please completing the non-cash (in-kind) gift form for in-kind gifts and email to give@substancechurch.com to ensure you gift is properly recorded for income tax reporting purposes.
You can obtain a contribution statement by clicking here. If you are registering for the first time and no giving record appears, please contact give@substancechurch.
Substance offers two fund accounts: General and Vision Campaigns (Heart for the House and Love This City).
Giving Online to the General Fund
The general fund is for paying your tithes and offerings online.
Giving to Substance Church's Vision Campaigns
What are Vision Campaigns? These campaigns are for accomplishing the churches future vision. This includes:
- New campuses
- Existing campus upgrades
- New missions work
- New ministries
- Local outreach
- Other ministries or activities for which Substance Church is called to accomplish.
Subfunds at Substance Church
The subfund simply indicates the campus you attend:
You can choose the physical location you attend or if you watch our services online you can choose the online video subfund. If you attend multiple campuses please choose your home campus. Please note the account and subfund designations are for your accounting purposes only. Any contributions are solicited with the understanding that Substance Church, Inc., the donee organization, has complete discretion and control over the use of all donated funds.
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Yes, you can schedule gifts for a onetime, weekly, twice per month or monthly occurrence. You can also set up as many scheduled contributions as you would like and cancel and modify the gifts at any time before the scheduled gift is processed.
Usually gifts are not able to be processed due to a mistake when entering your information or when your credit/ debit card has expired. Please verify you entered the correct information and your card has not expired.
Please do not pay fee payments through the online giving portal or place fee payments in the service offering as these payments will be processed as a gift and will not be applied to the amounts you owe. Please direct any fee payments to the department or ministry handling the activity either by mail or through the fee payment link sent via email (not to be confused with the online giving portal).
Generally, yes. Substance Church is an Internal Revenue Service determined 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation which generally makes gifts tax deductible. Cases in which you would not be able to deduct your contributions include, gifts requiring an itemized deduction on your tax return, fair market value of tangible goods or services (camp payments, bookstore sales, etc.) received by the donor in exchange for a gift, and gifts exceeding any charitable contribution deduction limits imposed by the Internal Revenue Service.
Yes. When you login to your account to give you will notice the web address will change from http:// to https//:. This means any information you send is encrypted using SSL encryption technology. This security technology is the same technology that banks and major online retailers use. Please do not email your credit card information.
Yes, Substance has to pay merchant fees on all ACH, debit and credit card transactions. The merchant fee rates average about 0.5% of the gift for ACH, 2% of the gift for online credit card donations and 4% of the gift for mobile giving donations. All forms of payment have some type of fee or cost to process. If you are concerned about the church having to pay fees on your giving please give using your bank’s online bill pay service or place a physical check in the offering container.
Substance Church accepts non-cash gifts. To download the non-cash (in-kind) gift form please click here. Non-cash gift donations include but are not limited to stocks, bonds, land, and other personal property. Please do not make any donation without first completing the non-cash (in-kind) gift form and obtaining approval from the Finance Department.
Yes, Substance accepts gifts from third party organizations (corporate giving programs, donor advised funds, foundations, IRA qualified charitable distributions, etc.). In particular, many corporate giving programs will match your payroll deduction gift, and this channel of giving is an excellent way for your gift dollars to go further. Restrictions may apply so please consult your employer’s human resource department, financial advisor, etc. for more information. Please note documentation for tax reporting purposes for gifts made through a third party organization must be obtained from the corresponding third party organization.
You can view the church financial statements by clicking below on the provided links. Financial statements are updated online every six months (through January 31 for half year, and through July 31 for full year). Please allow up to 45 days after the end of the reporting period for updated financials to be made available. The Substance Church fiscal year begins August 1 and ends July 31. Half year statements generally will not contain end of year adjustments (depreciation, etc.). Financials are produced by outside accounting firm Accounting Solutions, Inc.
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