Drawings your congregation can see straight through
A church raffle is held to a higher standard than most, because the people entering it are the same people who fund everything else you do. Rafflebase gives every draw a public proof page, so good stewardship is something you can demonstrate rather than assert.
Free for up to 100 entrants. No subscriptions.
What usually goes wrong
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Stewardship has to be visible
Money raised from the congregation should be accounted for to the congregation. A public results page and a timestamped audit trail make the drawing the most transparent part of your festival.
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Volunteers change every year
The person running the festival raffle is rarely the person who ran it last year. There is nothing to hand over but a login — no spreadsheet conventions, no ticket book system to explain.
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Fees shouldn’t come out of the ministry
Rafflebase never takes a percentage. Free to 100 entrants, then a flat one-time $25 for that raffle, so the amount you raise and the amount you pay us are unrelated.
Three steps, start to finish
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Announce it once
Share the signup link in the bulletin, the weekly email and on the screen before service. Members enter on their own phones.
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Draw at the festival
Run the draw from the stage. The winner and the cryptographic proof publish at the same moment.
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Post the proof
Put the results link in the following week’s bulletin so anyone who missed the festival sees exactly the same record.
Every draw ships with its own proof
The winner and a SHA-256 hash of the draw publish together. Anyone can re-run the computation and confirm the same name comes out — no one has to take your word for it.
sha256 · 77e11240d197…cdfc115
Drawings that work for churches
- Parish or church festival drawing
- Youth group or summer camp fundraiser
- Mission trip support drawing
- Quilt, craft or auction-companion raffle
- Building or organ fund drawing
- Volunteer and choir appreciation prizes
Winner drawn
Parish festival drawing
- Winner
- D. Okafor
- Entries
- 523
- Prize
- Handmade quilt
Churches, specifically
- Is a church allowed to run a raffle?
- In many states religious organizations are among the groups permitted to hold charitable raffles, sometimes with a license and sometimes without. It varies considerably and some jurisdictions are restrictive. Check your state’s charitable gaming rules — and your own denomination’s guidance — before you begin.
- Can we run a drawing where nobody pays to enter?
- Yes. You can run a free-entry drawing and simply not charge for entries, which is a common approach where a paid raffle would be complicated. Rafflebase does not process ticket payments in either case; it handles entries, the draw and the proof.
- How do we show the congregation it was fair?
- Every completed raffle has a public verification page with the SHA-256 hash and seed behind the draw. Anyone can re-run it and confirm the same winner comes out. Share that link in the bulletin alongside the announcement.
- Do entrants need to create an account?
- No. Only the person managing the raffle signs up. Entrants just open the public link and fill in the form.
Close to what you run
Run your next drawing here
Add your entrants, draw winners, and share a result nobody has to argue about.