Give to Riverbend
Almost everything here is paid for by people who call Riverbend home. If you're a guest, please don't feel you need to give. Being here is enough.
Three taps: an amount, monthly or once, and whether to cover the card fee. Monthly givers let us plan the kids' rooms and the care fund a year ahead, summers included.
Where it went in 2025
$912,400 in all. 13% went beyond our walls. Sample figures for this concept.
Sundays and kids
- Kids and students$48,300
Curriculum, supplies, training and background checks
- Music, streaming and licences22,900
Instruments, cameras and the CCLI licences that let us stream songs
- Coffee, supplies and printing17,400
About 600 cups of coffee every Sunday
People
- Staff salaries$412,000
Six full-time and four part-time staff
- Health insurance and payroll taxes96,800
For the same ten people
The building
- Lease on 1150 W River St$138,000
Ten-year lease, through 2031
- Utilities, cleaning and repairs54,600
Including the new boiler in February
Beyond our walls
- The care fund$41,200
Rent, utility and car-repair help for people in Boise, members or not
- Local partners58,500
A food pantry, refugee welcome and foster family support
- Two partners abroad22,700
A clinic in northern Uganda and a church plant in Lima
Receipts and taxes
Riverbend Community Church is a 501(c)(3) church, EIN 82-0000000. Gifts are tax-deductible as the law allows.
For any single gift of $250 or more, we send a written acknowledgment with the amount and a statement that you received no goods or services for it. If a gift over $75 comes with something in return, like a dinner ticket, we tell you how much of it is deductible.
Everyone gets a year-end statement by January 31. Our books are reviewed every year by an independent CPA, and the annual report is posted each March.
Other ways to give
- Monthly online Set it once here. Change the amount, the date or stop anytime from the link in your receipt.
- Check by mail Payable to Riverbend Community Church, 1150 W River St, Boise, ID 83702.
- Stock or a donor-advised fund Email [email protected] with the details and we'll send transfer instructions the same week.
- On a Sunday There's a giving box by the coffee. We don't pass a plate.