A Church Software Roll-Up

Ministry Brands will sell your church everything it needs to be on the cloud.

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I got this email from a contact in December of 2020.

One interesting roll-up you or your readers might find interesting is Community Brands. Community Brands is the parent of a consolidation of software companies focused on serving non-profits and churches. Their religious unit is Ministry Brands (https://www.ministrybrands.com/our-brands/) and as you can see, they essentially keep the public facing products in place, but it's all owned by the same org. Providence Equity started the roll-up and the company is now owned by Insight Venture Partners and Genstar Capital. No doubt every small software company in this space has been approached. Just a more unusual market for PE firms to notice and consolidate.

Ministry Brands is owned by Reverence Capital Partners as of 2021. Here’s a screenshot from their website.