Financial Snapshot of Christ Church Bronxville 2025
Income
The budgeted income for Christ Church in 2025 is $1.048 million. Income comes from five major sources:
Pledges: The majority of income comes from our members who support the ministries with financial contributions. These gifts are the largest and most important part of the financial health and security of Christ Church. Please help us plan for the year ahead by making a pledge.
Rentals: We rent the use of our space and have tenants, in addition to our on-site staff members. With the new HVAC, we expect that we will have additional rentals in 2026 and beyond.
School Cost Share: The Eliza Corwin Frost Child Care Center uses space at Christ Church. Every year, they tithe (10% of their admission income) to Christ Church. These funds defray the cost of space, maintenance staff, and utilities.
Endowment Transfer: Christ Church has a general endowment valued at $610,000 (as of September 30, 2025). A percentage of that endowment is available on an annual basis for use in the general fund. This is less than 2% of our total budgeted income.
Expenses
The budgeted expenses for Christ Church in 2023 are $1.048 million. Expenses fall in six major categories that focus on our life and ministry as a Christian church:
Music, Formation, Worship: The promises we make at baptism call us to grow and share our faith, to gather in regular worship, and to love our neighbors as ourselves. These three categories of expenses includes the compensation for our ministers (clergy, music, and formation) as well as the underlying costs of living out that commitment in our common life.
Facility Upkeep: Our predecessors left us an amazing facility wedged into the property between Sagamore and Kensington roads. The highlight of our facility is the 1925 Goodhue designed sanctuary with the Casavant Frères organ. These amazing spaces for worship and education require regular replacement and upgrades and is supported by a dedicated team of professionals and financed with a part of our annual budget. The utilities for water, gas, and electric keep the building open. The new geothermal system will result in savings during the 2026 heating season and increases during the cooling season (because we are cooling more space than we have in our history.
Utilities: Our three buildings require basic utilities like water, gas, and electricity. We are exploring ways to reduce these costs with energy efficient geothermal heating and cooling. New HVAC will also increase the opportunities for ministries at Christ Church year round.
Administrative: It does cost money to organize a church community. This category in our budget includes the compensation for our administrative staff and the general office expenses like insurance, copies, technology, and communication materials.
Diocesan Share: Christ Church is part of the Episcopal Diocese of New York. We are required to pay an assessment to the Diocese to support God’s mission in the region. The mission of the Diocese, overseen by the bishop, includes outreach, advocacy, and support for the 180 worshipping communities in Manhattan, the Bronx, Staten Island, and the New York counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, and Westchester. We are expecting that the Diocesan share will be lower in 2026.
How Much Is a Normal Pledge? The biblical tithe is an aspirational goal for setting aside first fruits of our blessings for the good of the community. Every member of Christ Church is in a different place financially. Please pray about setting aside a portion of your income for the mission of the Church and try to increase that amount year-to-year. If everyone at Christ Church did this, we would easily fulfill the costs of doing mission and ministry. The table below shows the distribution of annual pledges for 2025. In order to balance our budget, we need over $800,000 in pledges and other donations. Your pledge helps Christ Church’s Vestry make good decisions about our collective future.
We had 112 families make a pledge commitment to Christ Church in 2025. There are approximately 175 families at Christ Church. The Vestry has set of goal of 150 pledging families for 2025. Please make your giving estimate today.
The Vestry aims to live out Christ Church Bronxville’s mission by being good stewards of the gifts entrusted to Christ Church by its parishioners and friends. This is a snapshot of our budget for 2025. If you have questions or would like more details about the finances at Christ Church, please contact Junior Warden, Rob Deichert, or the Rector, the Rev. Dr. Kurt Gerhard.