Pay your church's fair share.
Your apportionment is calculated from how you report expenses. Misclassify one line and you subsidize every other church in your conference. FairShare catches it before you file — and shows how every new budget decision this year will affect next year's bill.
Most overpayment comes from miscoding capital improvements, loan principal, and designated pass-through gifts as operating expenses.
Three views of the same question: what does this cost us, really?
Your finance committee is weighing a part-time youth director. Type the salary, pick the category, see the apportionment impact in real time. Change the category and watch it move. This is the classification logic made visible.
Track every proposed and approved line item. A dashboard shows how your approved budget will affect next year's apportionment, and what adding the proposed items would do on top. Built for the monthly finance committee meeting.
When January comes and Table II is due, download the free spreadsheet. It applies the same rules engine to your completed expenses and shows whether you're about to overpay — line by line, with citations your treasurer can defend.
Your apportionment is not a flat tax. It's a ratio.
Conferences split their budget across churches based on each church's expenditures minus exclusions. Miscoding means you're not just overpaying — you're subsidizing every other church in your conference.
FairShare is built to help your church pay its correct share. We don't suggest reclassifications. We don't help you minimize obligations you legitimately owe. We show you what the rules say and let you make honest decisions with clear information.
- Senior pastorswho want to see financial decisions clearly before the finance committee votes
- Church treasurerswho file Table II and need defensible classifications with citations
- Finance committeeswho want a running view of budget decisions and their downstream effects
- Business administratorsat mid-to-large churches who manage the complexity of year-round planning
Starting with Texas. Expanding by request.
Net expenditures × budget percentage × church-specific economic index.
Based on the prior year's locked Local Church Report.
Post-2025 unification; formula moving from expenditure-based to giving-based for 2026.
Don't see your conference? Email hello@fairshare.church and we'll tell you where it is in our queue.
Questions pastors ask
Are you helping churches avoid paying their apportionments?+
No. FairShare helps your church pay the correct amount — which often means less than what a misclassified Table II would produce. Paying less than you actually owe is not the goal and not what the tool produces. Paying your fair share is.
Will this get my church in trouble with our conference?+
The opposite — conferences want accurate reporting. Every rule in our engine is traced to published conference documentation or GCFA guidance. If anything, your conference treasurer will appreciate a pastor who understands the formula.
Why is there a 2-year lag in the scenario tool?+
Because conferences use your prior-year Table II filing to calculate next year's apportionment. Spending decisions made in 2026 affect your 2028 apportionment bill. Most finance committees don't think that far ahead — FairShare surfaces the delayed consequence.
What happens when conference rules change?+
All three screens read from a single rules engine. When we update the engine — say, after a conference journal is published with new exclusions — every screen picks up the change automatically.
Is my data stored?+
Not in this version. The prototype runs entirely in your browser. When we add accounts and multi-user support, data will be encrypted at rest and never shared with your conference without your explicit consent.