Church Finder

Name

Church Finder

Legal name

Foyer Media, LLC

Website

https://churchfinder.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Church Directory

NAICS

Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services (519290), Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services (5192)

akta.pro primary industry

Sermon, Homiletics & Ministry Resource Publishing (Preaching Aids, Pastoral Resources) (MPAJAHAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Faith & Religious Live Streaming Platforms (MPACACAK)

Keywords

• Online church directory
• Church search platform
• Church marketing software
• Faith-based directory
• Church reviews platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Frisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. ChurchFinder Pro Subscriptions: Paid subscription plans for churches wanting enhanced visibility and features. Plans include Featured and Premium tiers with benefits like ad removal, photo gallery, video, Meet the Pastor page, and higher ranking in search results. Starting at $25/month.
2. Ad-Supported Free Profiles: Free church profiles supported by advertisements. Churches receive basic listings while Church Finder monetizes through display advertising on these pages.
3. Featured Listings on Churches-In.com: Partner site Churches-In.com offers discounted featured listings to Church Finder partners (50-80% discounts), creating additional revenue streams.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Church Finder operates ChurchFinder.com, the largest online directory of Christian churches in the United States with over 280,000 listings searchable by city and denomination. The platform is free for individual church seekers, who get tools like shortlists, journals, and reviews, while churches and pastors can claim free ad-supported profiles or upgrade to paid ChurchFinder Pro subscriptions (starting at $25/month) for featured placement, ad removal, photo galleries, video, and Meet the Pastor pages.

Product overview

ChurchFinder.com is a church directory and church-search platform operated by Foyer Media, LLC, launched in 2013. The platform consists of the free core ChurchFinder.com directory — the nation's largest online directory of Christian churches with over 280,000 listings — paired with a paid upgrade tier called ChurchFinder Pro that offers featured placement, ad removal, enhanced profiles with photo galleries, video support, and virtual tours for churches seeking greater online visibility. SermonCast, a related video streaming and podcasting service for churches, is offered as a featured partner resource. Find My Church is a planned local SEO service under development. Churches-In.com is a companion directory site operated by the same parent company, with cross-promotional discounts offered to Church Finder partners. The platform serves two distinct user segments: individual 'Church Seekers' who use free tools including a Shortlist, Journal, and review-writing to find a church, and church staff who pay for upgraded profiles and marketing plans. The ChurchFinder Journey Guide provides free educational content guiding seekers through denominational differences, visiting churches, and Christian beliefs.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Church Finder Pro: Premium church marketing and growth plans for churches wanting to reach more people, featuring enhanced visibility, photo galleries, video content, and featured listings.
• SermonCast
• Find My Church

Quantifiable outcome

• Featured churches receive 10x more traffic and visitors than non-featured listings
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Churches-In.comcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner church directory website also owned by Foyer Media. Both sites rank highly in search engines for church-related queries. Churches partnering with Church Finder receive 50-80% discounts on Churches-In featured listings. The relationship provides dual-SEO benefit and extended reach for church listings.
• SermonCastminorGTM or Marketing PartnerVideo streaming service for churches. SermonCast is featured as a sponsor on the Online Churches page and recommended to churches wanting to add online campuses with live streaming. Churches can get professional online campuses with live video streaming through SermonCast.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• The Knot Worldwide: The Knot (and WeddingWire) operate as vertical-search marketplaces that connect consumers with local vendors in a specific life-event category and monetize via featured/paid listings. The two-sided, SEO-led, freemium-to-paid playbook is highly analogous to Church Finder's seeker-vs-church dynamic.
• Care.com: Care.com is a vertical directory/marketplace that helps consumers find and review local providers in a single category, with both free and premium provider tiers. Its directory-plus-reviews monetization model parallels Church Finder's church listing and Featured subscription approach.
• Zillow: Zillow built a vertical-search category leader by aggregating detailed profiles of local entities (agents, homes) and layering reviews and premium placements. Although the category is real estate rather than faith, the directory-plus-reviews-plus-featured-listing monetization architecture is structurally identical to Church Finder's.
• Faithlife (Logos Bible Software): Faithlife operates a portfolio of faith-software products (Logos Bible Software, Faithlife Giving, Sermons, Proclaim) targeting pastors and Christian consumers. While more focused on Bible study and church software, it overlaps Church Finder in selling tools to pastors and serving seeker-grade Christian audiences.
• Yelp: Yelp is the dominant U.S. local-business directory and reviews platform. It uses the same two-sided marketplace model (free seeker access + monetized business profiles/featured placements), giving it direct functional overlap with Church Finder's directory-plus-reviews approach.
• Subsplash: Subsplash is a church-engagement platform that bundles mobile apps, live streaming, and media delivery for churches (overlapping directly with SermonCast) and sells into the same pastor/church-staff buyer. It is the most direct comparable in the faith-tech vertical.
• Breeze (by Church Community Builder): Breeze is a church management and engagement platform serving thousands of churches with people, giving, and communication tools. It targets the same pastor/church-staff buyer as ChurchFinder Pro and represents the natural adjacent vertical SaaS competitor in the same customer wallet.
• Birdeye: Birdeye is a customer-experience and listings-management platform for SMBs that aggregates reviews across directories and helps local businesses improve discovery. Its SEO/listing/reviews optimization playbook closely tracks ChurchFinder Pro's value proposition for churches seeking local visibility.

Broad incumbents

• Pushpay: Pushpay is a publicly-traded church-technology platform specializing in giving, payments, and congregant engagement software for churches and faith-based organizations. It shares Church Finder's pastor/church-staff buyer but operates a broader enterprise SaaS portfolio rather than a niche directory.
• Google Maps: Google Maps is the default free local-discovery layer that already indexes churches alongside every other business. It is a broad incumbent that overlaps heavily with Church Finder's core 'find a place near me' use case without specializing in faith, reviews, or church-specific profile depth.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/church_finder
• Facebookfacebook.com/churchfindercom
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/st-lukes-episcopal

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries3 records

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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