Old Dutch Church

What Old Dutch Church does

Old Dutch Church is a historic Reformed congregation in Kingston, New York, tracing its origins to 1659/1660 and recognized as a National Historic Landmark since 2008. Affiliated with the Reformed Church in America and governed by an elected Consistory, it conducts weekly worship services on Sundays at 10:30 a.m., alongside pastoral care, Christian education, music programs, sacramental ministry, community outreach, and pastoral support for the broader Kingston community. Its congregation is served by a small staff of approximately five or more, including ordained clergy, music leadership, administrative, and sextons roles. The church adopted a "Room for All" open-and-affirming designation in 2011 and installed its first female minister in 2013, signaling progressive denominational positioning, and it maintains formal partnerships with the Hudson Valley LGBTQ Center and immigrant advocacy networks.

The congregation's core product is in-person and now digitally streamed worship, supplemented by digitized genealogical archives spanning 1660 to the present — baptism, marriage, and burial records made available through the church website. Live streaming is delivered via YouTube. The underlying technology stack is intentionally lightweight: a public website, standard video streaming, and a static genealogical database. There is no disclosed investment in AI/ML, custom software platforms, or proprietary systems.

Revenue is generated through two principal streams: voluntary congregant contributions and facility rentals for community events, with published event pricing ranging from $25 to $400 per booking. The church also derives intangible value from its landmark status, including tourism interest and civic standing, and is protected by a local ordinance that caps building heights against its steeple. The economic model is that of a small heritage nonprofit: donation-dependent, with episodic third-party rental income and no disclosed commercial product line, foundation anchors, or capital raises.

Name

Old Dutch Church

Legal name

Old Dutch Church

Website

https://olddutchchurch.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Old Dutch Church is a historic Reformed congregation in Kingston, NY, founded in 1659/1660 and designated a National Historic Landmark. It serves its members through weekly worship, pastoral care, education, music, YouTube live streaming, digitized 1660–present genealogical archives, and community facility rentals.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Religious Worship Services

NAICS

Religious Organizations (8131)

akta.pro primary industry

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

akta.pro secondary industry

Places of Worship & Religious Facilities Operations (Cemeteries, Retreat Centers, Pilgrimage Sites) (BPAGAJAL)

Keywords

• Religious worship services
• Pastoral care ministry
• Facility rental services
• Community support programs
• Historical genealogy archives

Headquarters

HQ city

Kingston

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Donations and Contributions: The church accepts monetary donations via check or in-person, supporting ministry operations, facility maintenance, and community outreach programs.
2. Facility Rental: Rental fees for church spaces including Bethany Hall ($150), Hall with Kitchen ($200), Kitchen ($150), Sanctuary ($400), and other rooms ($25). Sexton fees apply for after-hours access. Non-profit organizations may have fees waived.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Old Dutch Church provides weekly Reformed Protestant worship services (Sundays at 10:30 AM) both in person and via YouTube live stream, along with pastoral care, baptisms and marriages, educational and musical ministries, and community outreach programs. It also rents its historic sanctuary and ancillary rooms to community groups and makes digitized church records dating to 1660 available for genealogical research.

Product overview

Old Dutch Church is a historic Reformed congregation in Kingston, NY offering religious worship services, community programs, and facility rentals. The church provides weekly Sunday worship at 10:30 AM with live streaming, musical ministry including choir and concerts, educational programs for children and adults, pastoral care, community support services, genealogical records from the 1600s, facility rentals for events and meetings, sacraments (baptism and marriage), and hosting for support groups. The church operates as a unified community organization rather than a platform with separate products.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Weekly Worship Services

Quantifiable outcome

• 350+ years of continuous community service
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• Room for AllcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2011Old Dutch Church officially became a 'Room for All' Church and open and affirming congregation in 2011. This partnership reflects the church's commitment to welcoming all persons regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristics.
• Reformed Church in America (RCA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe church is part of the Reformed Church in America, a mainline Protestant denomination with roots in the 16th century Reformation. Through RCA, supports missionary Josh Bode at the Protestant Church of Oman and the Al Amana Center in Oman. Also affiliated with Mid-Hudson Classis and Regional Synod of New York.
• Kingston Area Council of Churches (KACC)majorGTM or Marketing PartnerProvides weekly worship services for residents in Golden Hill, Washington Manor Senior Residence, and Mountain Valley Manor, and ecumenical Good Friday observance. Part of broader interfaith network.
• Kingston Interfaith CouncilmajorGTM or Marketing PartnerParticipates in interfaith efforts to bring together diverse faith communities in the Kingston area.
• People's PlaceminorGTM or Marketing PartnerCoordinates volunteers to staff People's Place on Monday evenings, supporting their community services.
• Family of WoodstockmajorGTM or Marketing PartnerProvides Hannaford gift cards, counsel, material, and spiritual support to clients. Assists women and children transitioning from Washbourne House (Domestic Violence Shelter) by cleaning, repairing, painting residences, providing financial support, household furnishings, and counseling.
• Pregnancy Resource CenterminorGTM or Marketing PartnerCollects funds annually to support the center.
• Ulster Immigrant Defense NetworkminorGTM or Marketing PartnerPartners on immigrant defense and support initiatives in the Ulster County area.
• Hudson Valley LGBTQ CenterminorGTM or Marketing PartnerPartners to support LGBTQ+ community services and advocacy.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Trinity Church Wall Street: Large historic New York City congregation and National Historic Landmark with centuries of continuous operation. Operates at a much larger scale but is comparable on heritage-positioning, sanctuary rental model for concerts/arts, and multi-revenue-stream nonprofit structure.
• St. Paul's Chapel: Part of Trinity Parish and itself a National Historic Landmark dating from 1766. Comparable colonial-era landmark worship facility used for tourism, concerts, and community programming under the same historic-preservation constraints as Old Dutch.
• Christ Church (Philadelphia): National Historic Landmark congregation founded in 1695, with one of the oldest continuous Anglican/Episcopal congregations in the U.S. Comparable on continuous-operations heritage, building-rental for concerts, and use of historic site for heritage education programming.

Direct peers

• Marble Collegiate Church: Historic Dutch Reformed congregation in midtown Manhattan affiliated with the same Reformed Church in America family as Old Dutch. Same denomination, same core ministry model (Sunday worship, community outreach, music programs), and similarly positioned as a landmark urban congregation with high historic profile.
• First Reformed Church of Schenectady: One of the oldest continuously operating RCA congregations in New York State, with similar 17th-18th century Dutch heritage. Same denomination structure, comparable heritage-tourism dynamic in an upstate New York city, and analogous community outreach footprint.
• Old First Reformed Church (Brooklyn): Historic Reformed congregation in Brooklyn, sharing RCA denominational affiliation and rooted in Dutch colonial-era origins. Compares directly on heritage/missionary partnerships, community-arts programs, and rental of historic sanctuary space.
• Old North Church (Boston): Colonial-era Boston landmark church that generates a substantial portion of revenue from ticketed heritage tourism, gift shop, and event rentals. Most direct U.S. comparable for Old Dutch's combination of historic worship, paid visitor access, and sanctuary event hosting business model.
• Middle Collegiate Church: Affiliated with the Reformed Church in America and located in New York's East Village. Comparable progressive-inclusive Reformed identity and city-based facility-rental / community-program model make it a close functional peer to Old Dutch's 'Room for All' positioning.

Emerging players

• First Parish in Cambridge (Unitarian Universalist): One of the oldest congregations in the U.S. (1636) with strong progressive/inclusive identity similar to Old Dutch's 'Room for All' positioning. Comparable on heritage assets, progressive theology, community-service orientation, and use of historic sanctuary for arts events.

Others

• Kingston Area Council of Churches (KACC): Direct interfaith partner of Old Dutch Church providing worship services at senior residences and ecumenical coordination. Useful as a regional ecosystem peer for understanding Kingston-area faith-based community programming rather than as a direct competitor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/OldDutchChurch
• Facebookfacebook.com/OldDutchChurch
• Instagraminstagram.com/old_dutch_church_kingston
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/old-dutch-church

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

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