The conference ledger
The money, and where it is going.
Drawn from the conference’s audited financial statements, 2016–2025. Apportionment revenue — the giving that funds nearly everything connectional — has fallen with the membership it is assessed on. Below, you can bend the assumptions and watch how the reserves respond over the next five years.
The dashed line is 2016’s apportionment ($10.8M) grown only by CPI — what it would take to hold the same buying power, $5M by 2025. Actual giving ($5M) sits 0% below that line — the real decline once inflation is counted.
The 2025 jump is largely non-cash: the FY2025 audit added $14.2M of closed-church property reverting to the conference at fair value (net assets held for sale, not spendable reserves).
Apportionments paid by every church on record, including those that have since closed or disaffiliated and stopped paying. Per-church reported figures (GCFA Table J); they run lower than the audited conference total above, and the most recent year reflects partial reporting.
What if?
Test a different future.
The sliders start on each line’s recent trend. Push apportionment giving up, hold the line on expenses, or change what the reserves earn — and see where the conference’s finances land by 2030.
Finance scenario model
An interactive projection: adjust apportionment giving, expenses, and investment return to see how the conference's reserves respond over the next five years. Enter the access code to use it.
Enter access codeSources: Río Texas Annual Conference journals (2016–2023) and the conference Board of Trustees’ audited financial statements. The 2024 and 2025 figures are from the FY2025 audit (Calvetti Ferguson, unmodified opinion dated May 18, 2026), which restates the prior-year comparatives.