Elevation Church Tithes and Attendance Decrease, Campus Locations Increase

The Charlotte-based megachurch led by Steven Furtick still takes in $88M a year.

The tithes and offerings for Elevation Church, based out of Charlotte, N.C., continues to decrease year over year while its number of campus locations grow.

Video screenshots @Elevation Church from February 15, 202

In its 2025 annual report celebrating 20 years of ministry, the megachurch led by Steven Furtick reported $88.01 million in annual tithes and offerings and a year-end offering of $11.46 million.

In 2024, the church reported tithes and offerings of $91.35 million and $108 million in 2023.

With lower tithes and offerings, Elevation Church gave less to outreach efforts in 2025 — $11.9 million, down from $12.16 million in 2024.

It has reportedly given over $130 million to outreach efforts during the life of the church.

The largest portion of Elevation Church’s expenditures continues to be personnel at $33 million or 38% of tithes and offerings. Last year, personnel expenses accounted for 35% of its expenditures.

Elevation now reports that it has 20 campuses, with the most recent opening in Summerville, S.C., in January 2026. It also opened two permanent locations last year: Elevation Uptown in August and Elevation Greenville in October. It “launched” a new permanent building for Elevation Raleigh just a few weeks ago on March 29.

In-person weekly attendance across the campuses has held mostly steady, with only a slight decrease from last year — down from 17,373 to 17,037.

Despite this slight decrease, Elevation reported that 19,165 decisions for Christ were made in 2025 and nearly 4,000 people were baptized.

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Elevation’s online presence remains strong with a reported 92,500 live Sunday views of the services, over 900,000 weekly YouTube views, and over 1 million weekly television viewers.

It claims over 108 million total sermon streams across all platforms in 2025 with the most-viewed sermon being “When God Says Let Go.”

Elevation Worship is the “worship ministry” of Elevation Church and produces its own musical offerings, albums, and products. Its musical tour, “Elevation Nights,” reported attendance of 197,291 across 16 cities, and is planning “Elevation Nights 2026” for this year.

According to Elevation’s annual report, over 2.2 billion Elevation Worship songs were streamed across all platforms in 2025. That is down slightly from 2.3 billion in 2024. Nearly 1 billion of the Elevation Worship streams were on YouTube.

Elevation Worship’s album “When Wind Meets Fire” won the Dove Award for “Worship Album of the Year.”

Some of the albums from Elevation WorshipElevation Worship’s album “When Wind Meets Fire” won the Dove Award for “Worship Album of the Year.”

In June 2023, Elevation Church withdrew its affiliation with the Southern Baptist Convention, giving no specific reason about its departure. Earlier that month, the SBC had voted to expel two churches, Saddleback and Fern Creek, from the denomination because they have women pastors.

Holly Furtick, Steven’s wife, is listed on the Elevation Church website as “co-founder and pastor at Elevation Church,” and her sermons can be found online. Steven Furtick has a Master of Divinity degree from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, but the only education listed on Holly Furtick’s biography is a Bachelor of Arts in education.

In reflecting on the last 20 years of ministry at Elevation Church, the Furticks wrote, “As we celebrate 20 years of Elevation Church, we are in awe, and our hearts are overflowing with gratitude for all God has done through this ministry. When we look back, we don’t just see numbers or milestones. We see stories. Stories of people encountering Jesus. Stories of healing, lives transformed, families restored, and faith renewed.”

Elevation Church is a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, which lists its net assets at over $345 million.

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