Case Study: Grace Church achieves streamlined multi-campus financial reporting and audit readiness with Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT

Multi-campus church tracks finances with robust cloud solution

Grace Church is a fast-growing, multi-campus church with nine locations across Ohio, Georgia, and South Carolina that needed better financial accountability. A lean finance team of five was managing campus-level budgets, dozens of mission trips and events, and spreadsheet-heavy reporting from a legacy cash-based system that couldn’t support consolidated tracking or audit readiness.

Grace Church implemented Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT, a cloud-based accounting solution that consolidated all campuses into one system, enabled accrual accounting, and provided robust project-level tracking and in-system reporting. The smooth implementation and ongoing reporting capabilities produced reliable financial statements for the organization and each campus, improved micro-level control over projects and budgets, and positioned the church for an external audit while maintaining economies of scale with a small finance team.

Grace Church

Monika Kirbawy

Controller