John Patrick Publishing Co

What John Patrick Publishing Co does

John Patrick Publishing Co. Inc. (JPPC) is a privately held Catholic-focused publishing and parish services company founded in November 1992 by Patrick A. McGinley and headquartered in Ivyland, Pennsylvania. The company produces weekly printed bulletins and related communications for over 600 Catholic parishes along the Eastern Seaboard, spanning New England to Florida. Its core offering is recurring weekly bulletin printing, supplemented by bulletin advertising placement for local businesses (with revenue sharing back to parishes), and the Parish Giving online electronic donation platform which the company claims can raise parish donations by up to 25%.

The technology stack combines round-the-clock commercial printing equipment with a set of cloud-based tools for clients: the parish.jppc.net bulletin upload portal, an extensive graphics library for bulletin customization, webinar resources, and the parishgiving.org online giving site. The JPPC Bulletin Publisher Resources Portal and the Finding Faber sub-brand round out the product surface. The 1995 acquisition of Burbank Graphics brought printing operations in-house after several years of outsourcing.

JPPC makes money primarily through recurring weekly bulletin subscriptions from parishes, advertising revenue from local businesses buying bulletin placements (often structured as revenue-share arrangements that effectively subsidize a parish's printing costs), and transaction-related fees tied to online giving processed through Parish Giving. Smaller but additive streams include custom inserts, flyers, and year-end hard-cover bound keepsake bulletins. Go-to-market blends direct sales with dedicated parish representatives and a self-service portal for bulletin file submission. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and is negotiated on a per-parish basis with annual billing. The company employs between 11 and 50 people, has no disclosed outside investors, and remains independently owned by its founder.

Name

John Patrick Publishing Co

Legal name

John Patrick Publishing Co. Inc.

Website

https://jppc.net

Company type

Private

Founded year

1992

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

John Patrick Publishing Co. is a privately held Catholic parish publishing firm that prints weekly bulletins for over 600 churches along the Eastern Seaboard, supported by bulletin advertising and an online giving platform.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Religious Publishing Services

NAICS

Periodical Publishers (51312), Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services (5418)

SIC

Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721)

akta.pro primary industry

Denominational & Community Periodicals (Church Magazines, Diocesan/Temple Newsletters) (MPAJAHAI)

akta.pro secondary industry

Newsletter Publishing Platforms (MPACAIAA)

Keywords

• Church bulletin publishing
• Parish communications
• Online giving services
• Catholic publications
• Bulletin advertising

Headquarters

HQ city

Trenton

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Supply Chain, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Weekly Bulletin Publishing: Printing and publishing services for weekly church bulletins. Churches pay for bulletin production and printing services with regular weekly cadence. Revenue is recurring per church on a weekly basis.
2. Bulletin Advertising: Local businesses advertise in the church bulletins. Revenue sharing programs available with parishes. The advertising creates a sustainable funding model that supports bulletin printing costs.
3. Online Giving Services: Electronic giving platform (Parish Giving) for parishes to receive online donations. The platform may increase parish donations and provides transaction processing capabilities.
4. Bulletin Inserts and Specialty Printing: Additional services including printed flyers and inserts, hard cover binding of bulletins at year end for keepsake purposes.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

John Patrick Publishing Co prints and publishes weekly bulletins for Catholic parishes and provides complementary parish services, including an online giving platform (Parish Giving) and bulletin advertising placement. The company serves more than 600 Catholic parishes, offering design, printing, distribution, online giving integration, and advertising sales as a bundled parish communications offering.

Product overview

John Patrick Publishing Co operates as a unified church bulletin publishing service rather than a modular platform architecture. Its core product is Weekly Bulletins—printing and publishing weekly church publications for Catholic parishes. The product portfolio centers on the Weekly Bulletins core offering, supplemented by Parish Giving (online electronic giving) and Bulletin Advertising (local business ad placement), which generate revenue sharing for churches. The JPPC Bulletin Publisher Resources Portal serves as the administrative web platform where church staff upload bulletins, access graphics libraries, readings, gospel reflections, webinars, and templates. Finding Faber is a named sub-brand referenced for parish communication purposes.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Parish Giving: Online giving service for parishes that may increase donations up to 25%
• Finding Faber

Products and services

• Weekly Parish Bulletins
• Parish Giving (Online Giving)
• Bulletin Advertising

Quantifiable outcome

• Online giving may increase parish donations up to 25%

Named customers2 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Burbank Graphics (John W. Hartmann)minorOthers · 1 July 1995Original printing partner for John Patrick Publishing Company. John W. Hartmann of Burbank Graphics in Ewing Township, NJ performed all printing during the company's early years. On July 1, 1995, John Patrick Publishing Company acquired Burbank Graphics and the two companies merged operations.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Dynamic Catholic: Dynamic Catholic is a digitally native Catholic content and parish engagement platform offering programs, books, and digital resources to parishes, partially overlapping with JPPC's parish communications and bulletin services from a digital-first angle.
• Church Publishing Incorporated: Church Publishing Incorporated is the official publisher of the Episcopal Church, producing worship resources, bulletins, and parish content, comparable to JPPC as a denomination-specific parish publishing operation.
• Augsburg Fortress: Augsburg Fortress publishes worship and music resources, bulletins, and curriculum for Evangelical Lutheran parishes, offering a comparable denomination-focused publishing and parish communications model.
• Concordia Publishing House: Concordia Publishing House is the publishing arm of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, producing bulletins, worship resources, and parish content — a comparable denomination-specific publisher with a parallel operating model to JPPC.
• Tithe.ly: Tithe.ly is a digital-first church giving, engagement, and communications platform that competes with JPPC's Parish Giving and bulletin-adjacent communications services from a mobile-native angle.

Direct peers

• Liturgical Press: Liturgical Press is a Catholic publisher of worship resources, hymnals, and parish bulletins, serving many of the same Catholic parish customers that JPPC targets with bulletin-adjacent products.
• Our Sunday Visitor: Our Sunday Visitor is a Catholic publishing company producing periodicals, parish resources, and bulletin-related content for Catholic parishes, making it a direct vertical peer in the Catholic publishing space.
• Life Publishers International (LPi): LPi is one of the largest church bulletin publishing and parish communications companies in the US, offering bulletin printing, online giving, and advertising services to thousands of Catholic and other Christian parishes nationwide — the closest direct competitor to JPPC's core offering.

Others

• Vanco Payments: Vanco Payments is a leading provider of electronic giving and online donation tools for churches and faith-based organizations, directly comparable to JPPC's Parish Giving online giving platform.

Broad incumbents

• USCCB Publishing: The USCCB is the national conference of Catholic bishops and publishes official liturgical texts, parish bulletin inserts, and worship resources, serving the same Catholic parish buyer that JPPC addresses.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/weekly_bulletin

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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