What lds.org does

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a global, non-profit religious organization headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, founded in 1830. It serves a worldwide membership through a network of congregations, temples, family history and genealogy resources, and educational institutions, and operates digital platforms (including churchofjesuschrist.org) for member and public engagement. Governance is led by a First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, with Dallin H. Oaks sustained as Prophet and President in 2020.

Core products and infrastructure include local congregational units (wards and branches), temples administered for ordinance work, the FamilySearch genealogy platform, seminaries and institutes of religion, and the Brigham Young University higher-education system. The Church also operates several wholly-owned subsidiaries: Temple Square (hospitality and visitor operations at Church headquarters), Church Newsroom (official editorial and media channel), and Brigham Young University. The platform architecture is a hybrid of physical sacred sites, a global lay clergy, and centralized digital publishing and member-records systems; the input data does not characterize the underlying technology stack in detail.

The business model is a non-profit, donation-funded operating model. Revenue is generated primarily through voluntary tithes and offerings from members, with no pricing or contract model and no equity capitalization. The organization does not publish standard corporate revenue figures. Go-to-market is essentially member-acquisition via full-time missionary service and word-of-mouth within member networks, with secondary public-facing channels (newsroom, visitor centers, BYU admissions) supporting brand and community engagement. The customer base is the global individual membership, with no enterprise or commercial customer segments.

Name

lds.org

Legal name

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Website

https://lds.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1830

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a global non-profit religious organization founded in 1830 and headquartered in Salt Lake City, serving a worldwide membership through congregations, temples, family history resources, and digital platforms, funded by voluntary tithes and offerings.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Religious Services

NAICS

Religious Organizations (8131), Other Grantmaking and Giving Services (813219)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600), Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Local Congregations & Worship Communities (Churches, Mosques, Temples, Synagogues) (BPAGAJAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Faith-Based Social Services & Community Outreach (Food Pantries, Shelters, Counseling) (BPAGAJAG), Faith-Based Education & Formation (Seminaries, Religious Schools, Catechesis) (BPAGAJAD), Christian Colleges with Theological Programs (EDAHAKAG)

Keywords

• Religious services
• Spiritual community
• Faith education
• Missionary outreach
• Temple worship

Headquarters

HQ city

Salt Lake City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Voluntary tithes and offerings: Members voluntarily contribute tithes and offerings to support church operations, humanitarian efforts, temple construction, and missionary work. The homepage does not detail the revenue model but references standard religious giving practices.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints provides religious worship services, spiritual instruction, and community programming through a global network of congregations and temples. Its offerings include weekly sacrament meetings, age-segregated religious education (Primary, Sunday School, youth and adult classes), temple ordinances (including eternal marriages and baptisms for the dead), and a structured full-time missionary program. Supporting these services is the churchofjesuschrist.org digital platform, which provides access to scriptures, a congregation locator, missionary visit requests, and news updates.

Product overview

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints operates a unified web platform centered on churchofjesuschrist.org, which serves as the primary digital presence for Church information, beliefs, and missionary outreach. The platform includes the main website, a Newsroom portal for media updates, a Temple Square portal for temple information, and integrated features for finding local churches, meeting with missionaries, and accessing religious texts including the Book of Mormon. The offering is a single integrated platform with multiple content sections and service features rather than a modular software product.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• churchofjesuschrist.org: Official website of the church

Products and services

• churchofjesuschrist.org Website Official digital hub of the Church providing information about beliefs, common questions, scripture study, and access to missionary and congregation-locator tools for any visitor or member.
• Church Newsroom Dedicated news and media portal publishing current updates on Church projects, events, disaster relief efforts, and announcements for media and the general public.
• Temple Square Portal Official portal for Temple Square in Salt Lake City, providing information about the Salt Lake Temple, surrounding visitor attractions, and planned temple celebrations.
• Local Congregation Worship Services (Wards and Branches) Weekly worship services held at meetinghouses worldwide, including the sacrament meeting (songs, prayers, sermons, and communion) and age-segregated religious education classes (Primary for children, Sunday School, Relief Society for women, Elder Quorum for men). Congregations are led by lay priesthood holders and are open to all visitors at no cost.
• Temple Ordinances and Ceremonies Sacred ordinances and ceremonies performed in dedicated temple buildings for worthy members holding a temple recommend, including eternal marriages (sealings), baptisms for the deceased, and covenants with God. Temples are distinct from regular meetinghouses and emphasize eternal family relationships.
• Missionary Teaching Program Full-time missionary teaching service in which young and senior missionaries conduct structured lessons (online or in-person) to introduce interested individuals to the Church's beliefs and connect them with their local congregation.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Church of Scientology International: The Church of Scientology is a more recent, doctrinally distinctive religious movement that shares the LDS Church's emphasis on lay ministry, global missionary outreach, and a centralized headquarters model. It is comparable as a peer in organizational structure and global expansion strategy, though smaller in scale and reach.
• Salvation Army: The Salvation Army combines a worship-based religious identity with a global humanitarian and social services footprint, similar to the LDS Church's community outreach and humanitarian aid programs. It is comparable as a donation-funded, lay-involved religious organization with significant non-welfare programmatic operations.

Direct peers

• Evangelical Lutheran Church in America: The ELCA operates a congregational model with synods, seminaries, and global missionary partnerships, supported by member contributions. It is comparable to the LDS Church in operating a structured network of local worship communities under centralized denominational authority, with parallel religious education infrastructure.
• Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America: The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese is part of the broader Eastern Orthodox communion and operates parishes, seminaries, and monastic communities in a similar hierarchical-religious structure to the LDS Church. Both emphasize sacred-space worship (Orthodox churches vs LDS temples), religious education, and a global ecclesiastical hierarchy.
• Jehovah's Witnesses: Jehovah's Witnesses operate one of the most aggressive door-to-door global missionary programs in the world, paralleling the LDS Church's missionary outreach model. Both organizations are volunteer/lay-led, donation-funded, and rely heavily on print and digital publishing to distribute religious content globally.
• United Methodist Church: The United Methodist Church operates a global connectional structure with regional conferences, seminaries, and missionary sending programs. It is comparable to the LDS Church as a large, donation-funded, globally distributed denomination with both parish-level worship and centralized administrative governance.
• Seventh-day Adventist Church: The Seventh-day Adventist Church shares 19th-century American restorationist roots with the LDS Church and operates a similarly global network of congregations, an extensive publishing and media arm, and a large higher-education system. Both organizations run active missionary programs and emphasize distinctive doctrinal positions alongside mainstream Christian belief.
• The Vatican / Catholic Church: The Roman Catholic Church is the largest global Christian denomination and the closest direct comparable to the LDS Church: a centralized religious authority headquartered in a single city, operating parishes and sacred sites worldwide with a global missionary and educational footprint. Both share a model of voluntary contributions, hierarchical governance, and global temple/sacred-space infrastructure.
• Southern Baptist Convention: The Southern Baptist Convention is the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, with a congregational structure, cooperative missionary sending (via the IMB), and seminary/educational institutions comparable to the LDS Church's ward/branch and seminary/BYU model. Both rely on voluntary contributions from member churches and households.
• Church of England / Anglican Communion: The Anglican Communion is a global Anglican network of autonomous churches in communion with the Archbishop of Canterbury, with a centralized heritage but distributed governance model that parallels the LDS Church's centralized headquarters in Salt Lake City with worldwide stakes/wards. Both maintain historic cathedrals/temples, educational institutions, and structured lay and clergy programs.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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