aVillageFunded by churches.
Never by families.
aVillage is funded by the churches that use it. Your contribution is based on your size; small churches pay nothing, and any church can request a reduced or sponsored account — cost should never be the reason foster families go unserved.
Estimate
What would our church contribute?
There are no tiers to be snapped into. What a church contributes is a curve: a small flat base once you pass the free threshold, plus a share that grows with your size and tapers as it goes, plus a small amount per foster family you're actively serving.
This calculator runs the same engine the app runs — not a marketing approximation of it — so the figure below is the figure your leader will see when they set the church up.
- Under 150 average attendance, the answer is $0 and no one asks you anything.
- Larger churches get 30 days of full access before anything is due.
- Annual billing is charged at 10 months' worth for the year.
- All modules are included. There is no add-on list.
Adults and children, across all your services.
The households actively receiving care right now.
Suggested contribution
All modules included. Any church can ask for a reduced or sponsored account.
The three honest cases
Whatever the number says, nobody is turned away
- Automatic — no request, no card, no trial clock.
- Every feature. Nothing is held back for paying churches.
- Unlimited volunteers, families and campuses.
- You'll only be asked about your size if the app is used by more than 200 members — which usually means the attendance on file is out of date.
- 30 days of full access before anything is due.
- Roughly $87/mo at 400 attendance; $307/mo at 1,500.
- Monthly or annual. Annual is billed at 10 months for the year.
- A church plant — founded in roughly the last two years — is priced at half.
- Asking buys 14 days of full access, and the review window is the same length.
- So an undecided request approves itself on or before the day access would lapse. Silence can never become a lock-out.
- A declined request leaves your previous arrangement standing.
- Paid for by churches that give beyond their size — the one genuinely optional part of all this.
What we will not do
The promises the pricing has to keep
Never charge a family or a member
Only the church organization ever contributes. A foster parent, a volunteer and a closet coordinator all use aVillage for nothing, forever, on every plan.
Never hold data hostage
Non-payment pauses features in stages and never touches data. Under a full hold, exporting the community and deleting the account both still work.
Never gate a feature behind a tier
A free small church gets the same app a large one does — the closet, the circles, the campuses, the reporting. Size changes the contribution, not the product.
Never let cost be the reason
Every church can ask for a reduced or sponsored account, and asking costs nothing while it's reviewed. That's the whole point of the model.
Pricing questions
Why a formula instead of tiers?
Because tiers produce cliffs, and a cliff is where a church one person over a line pays what a church five times its size pays.
The curve starts at zero exactly where free ends. A church that has just crossed the 150 line contributes the $25 base plus a little for the families it serves — about $25 for three of them — not a jump to what a church five times its size pays. Raising the free threshold moves the curve's origin with it, so the cliff can't reopen.
What's included?
Everything. Care needs, meal trains, care circles, the foster closet network, the licensing journey, multi-campus, notifications and text messaging, impact reporting, data export, and every feature added after you join. There is no add-on list and no seat count.
What if our size changes?
A month or so in, aVillage compares the estimate you gave against how the app is actually being used and may suggest a higher contribution if you've grown. It never suggests a lower one on its own — if your situation changed the other way, tell us and we'll change it.
Is a gift to aVillage tax-deductible?
No. aVillage is operated by Lukshi, LLC, which is not a tax-exempt charity, so a contribution or gift to aVillage is not tax-deductible as a charitable donation.
Gifts your members give to your church through aVillage go to your church's own payment account and are between them and you, exactly as they would be otherwise.
Do we need a card to start?
No. A small church never needs one at all. A larger church gets 30 days of full access first, and can request a reduced or sponsored account instead at any point.
How is this billed?
Monthly or annually by card, processed by Stripe. Contributions are set up on the web — a church's business payment isn't something we put inside a phone app.
Cost should never be the reason a family goes unserved
If the number above is a problem, say so and we'll sort it out. That is not a courtesy line — it's how the model is built.