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Pushpay made giving easier. Now it wants churches to notice who’s missing.
A mobile donation business became a church software suite by buying the tools around the offering plate. Its next wager: the useful part of a database is the conversation it starts.
Vanco and the Art of Passing the Plate
A donation takes seconds. Accounting for it can take the afternoon. Vanco has built a business around the distance between those two things.
Vance Roush
Vance Roush is the founder and CEO of Overflow, a fintech platform that makes it simple for churches, nonprofits, and schools to accept stock, crypto, and cash donations online. A first-generation Asian American raised in Kent, Washington, he studied at the University of Washington's Foster School of Business, spent time at Google and ADARA, and co-founded VIVE Church in the Bay Area. His work as the church's finance lead exposed how clunky it was to donate appreciated assets, which led him to launch Overflow in 2020. The company has raised roughly $30M, including a $20M Series B in 2024, and Roush frames his mission around Proverbs 11:24 and building an 'Amazon for giving.'
Overflow
Overflow is a faith-and-nonprofit fintech that lets churches, ministries, universities and charities accept the kinds of gifts most donation tools ignore - publicly traded stock, cryptocurrency, donor-advised funds, ACH, cards and digital wallets - all through one online flow that replaces the old fax-and-paperwork process for asset-based giving. Founded by former Google engineer Vance Roush after his own church struggled to accept stock gifts, the company reports that donors who give appreciated assets tend to give far more than they would in cash, and it has expanded into NFC 'Tap' giving hardware, an AI-assisted giving product and analytics. Overflow raised a $20M Series B in February 2024 and says it serves more than 1,000 organizations.