No matter how the system was like, from the point of view of the actual treatment, it can be said that shrines were eventually divided into the following three rankings: Kankoku heisha, Shinsen heihaku-ryo kyoshin shitei jinja (shrines which was able to receive Shinsen heihaku-ryo Fee from local public bodies; Fukensha and some of Gosha and Sonsha), and any other shrines.
制度上はともかく最終的に、実質的な待遇を見た場合には、官国幣社、神饌幣帛料供進指定神社（府県社と郷村社の一部）、それ以外の神社の3段階の社格となったということができる。