What a 501(c)(3) can actually get, and what it costs to keep

Free: professional email addresses at your nonprofit's own domain, video meetings for up to 150 participants, 100 TB of storage shared across all users, security and management controls, and standard support.

Business Standard at $3.50 per user per month, over 75% off. Business Plus at $6.16, over 72% off. Enterprise editions at over 70% off.

It is also how you satisfy the working-domain precondition that Google Ad Grants, Microsoft and Canva all check for.

• Your own domain, since every tier issues email at it
• Up to 2,000 users on the nonprofit offer and the discounted Business plans. Discounted Enterprise plans have no minimum or maximum

Canva Pro free for a team of up to 50, all premium features, 100 GB storage, brand kit, premium photo and video, AI tools. Extra seats at 50% of Canva Enterprise.

• Registered 501(c)(3)
• Nonprofit status confirmed for the program
• Use an organisational email address

• Government entities
• Political organisations
• Educational institutions, served by Canva for Education instead
• Most other 501(c) subtypes
• Grantmaking foundations
• Organisations under a parent 501(c)(3) without their own EIN

A donated annual QuickBooks Online subscription. Plus, five users, for an $80 a year administrative fee against roughly $1,380 retail, about 94% off. Advanced, 25 users, for $170 a year against roughly $3,300 retail.

• 501(c)(3) with an operating budget under $10 million
• One donated subscription per organisation for life, renewable annually

• Payroll add-ons are not part of the donated subscription.
• It cannot be applied to an existing QuickBooks account; the data has to be migrated.
• The administrative fee is payable every year, and on a single-seat product a fee like it can eat the saving outright.

The Team plan at $8 per user per month for nonprofits. Per seat it includes nonprofit connectors, single sign-on, Claude Code, Claude Cowork, file creation for documents, slides, spreadsheets and PDFs, central billing, and nonprofit guides. Enterprise pricing is through sales.

2 December 2025, with GivingTuesday

The intake recorded up to 75% off, a 150-seat ceiling on Team, that the discount is not applied retroactively, and that no annual reapplication is needed. None of those four are on the page read here. What is on it is the price itself, $8 per user per month, which is the more useful number anyway.

• Registered 501(c)(3) organisations and their international equivalents
• K-12 public and private schools, which most of the largest programs on this page exclude
• Certain mission-based healthcare providers including Critical Access Hospitals and Federally Qualified Health Centers
• Team plan from a minimum of 2 seats

ChatGPT Business, formerly Team, at 20% off: $8 per seat per month billed annually, $10 monthly. Up to 75% off Business or Enterprise for larger nonprofits through sales, per a 6 February 2026 update.

• Nonprofit status confirmed for the program
• Business from two seats
• Discounts apply to Business and Enterprise only, not Plus or Go

The Gemini app and NotebookLM free inside the $0 Google Workspace for Nonprofits plan. Advanced AI features, Gemini in Gmail, Docs, Sheets and Meet, Gems, NotebookLM Plus, on paid editions at up to 75% off from $3.50 per seat per month.

Link Anywhere cards, which "let you link supporters to any external URL" from a video. YouTube Giving features for fundraising. Creator Academy lessons written for nonprofits.

The intake recorded that YouTube Giving passes 100% of the donation with YouTube covering transaction fees, that funds route through a third party and can take up to two months, that payouts under $10 are annual, and that the native donate button often needs a creator to start the fundraiser. None of that is on the program page read here, so all four are unconfirmed.

• YouTube Giving features are "currently available in the U.S." only
• Eligibility is handled through Google for Nonprofits rather than stated on the program page

• With YouTube Giving the nonprofit receives 100% of the donation and YouTube covers transaction fees, but funds route through Network for Good and can take up to two months. Under $10, payouts are annual.
• The native donate button often requires a creator to start the fundraiser.

2.2% plus $0.30 a transaction in the US, against the standard 2.9% plus $0.30.

• Registered nonprofit
• At least 80% of payment volume must be tax-deductible donations
• Available in six regions: US, Canada, UK, EU, Australia, New Zealand

• American Express stays at 3.5% even for approved nonprofits.
• Plus 1.5% for cards issued outside the account's country and 1% for currency conversion.
• Mixing donations and membership dues on one account can break the 80% threshold. Use separate accounts.
• The Radar fee still applies to nonprofits.

A reduced rate for registered 501(c)(3)s of roughly 1.99% plus a fixed transaction fee. PayPal Giving Fund routes donations from eBay for Charity, GoFundMe, Nextdoor and Facebook and Instagram with 100% passed through, PPGF absorbing the processing.

• Through PayPal Giving Fund the nonprofit does not receive full donor contact details; PPGF owns the donor relationship. Payouts can be monthly.
• Below about $134 a donation Stripe is cheaper, above it PayPal is.

Reduced postage on bulk USPS Marketing Mail for authorised nonprofit organisations.

• One of the categories USPS authorises: religious, educational, scientific, charitable, and prevention of cruelty to animals among others
• Holding 501(c)(3) status is not sufficient on its own. USPS states plainly that "A nonprofit status from the IRS does not automatically qualify you to mail at nonprofit prices"
• Apply on PS Form 3624 with documentation of the organisation's operation

• Governmental organisations, and further categories listed in Publication 417 section 2-3.2

• Keep mailing. Publication 417 covers "Mailing Frequency and Revocation for Nonuse", so an authorisation that goes unused can be revoked.

• Bulk Marketing Mail only, not First-Class.
• Restrictions on advertising content.
• Specific marking and indicia required.

A $2,000 USD annual Azure Sponsorship grant, activated from Microsoft's Nonprofit Hub.

• Activate within 90 days of the offer being issued. Microsoft: "If you don't activate the credit, it might expire and become inaccessible."
• Renew every year by responding to the renewal email before the expiration date. The credit runs one year at a time.
• Keep meeting the Microsoft 365 utilisation requirements. Microsoft: "Not meeting M365 utilization grant requirements might result in notifications or ineligibility for renewal." That is the same 85% rule the Microsoft 365 entry carries, and it can cost you this grant too.

• Unused credit does not roll over. Microsoft: "Your credit does not roll over from year to year." Neither do unused Microsoft 365 licences.
• Only the primary contact named on the offer can activate it.
• A valid credit card may be required at setup. You are not charged while you stay inside the $2,000, and you get a notification before the account converts to pay-as-you-go, but the conversion is the default behaviour on exceeding it.
• Covers first-party Azure services only. Not reserved instances, not third-party marketplace offers, and not support plans.
• Microsoft does not increase or extend the grant, and there is no application to ask for more. Beyond $2,000 it is standard pay-as-you-go.

50% off the Plus plan. Notion states the program "is only eligible for the Plus Plan" and that it is "actively working on expanding the nonprofit discount to our Business plan".

Applied automatically once approved, not issued as a code. Verification takes three to seven business days and approval arrives by email.

• Civil society organisations working on global challenges
• Verified from submitted documentation and public databases
• Up to three workspaces per organisation

• Educators and staff at higher education institutions, served by Notion's education program instead
• Nonprofit student clubs and organisations, also directed to the education program

A one-time $100 credit "to begin using Twilio immediately". Twilio states "Credits never expire".

Twilio.org Impact Fund makes grants for tech projects, digital transformation, humanitarian and climate, by invitation.

The intake recorded 25% off most products in the US and Canada and 10% elsewhere, and that the discount stacks with volume pricing. Neither figure is on the program page read here, so both are unconfirmed.

• Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) designation, their international equivalents, and social enterprises
• Approval is often instant for organisations whose status is already on record

A free GitHub Team plan, with unlimited private repositories and users, or 25% off GitHub Enterprise Cloud.

• "Nonprofit organizations that are 501(c)(3) or equivalent and are non-governmental, non-academic, non-commercial, and non-political in nature"

• Governmental, academic, commercial and political organisations, by the wording of the eligibility rule itself

Zoom discounts paid plans, with a free tier of 40-minute meetings for up to 100 participants, and one discounted product a year where criteria are met. Asana 50% off Premium and Business. Mailchimp 15%. Box.org and Okta for Good offer donated or discounted licences. Atlassian Community offers free or discounted Jira and Confluence. Slack, Airtable, Dropbox and DocuSign run nonprofit programs of their own, commonly 15% to 50% off or a donated tier.

The intake's own recommendation: percentages and terms in this group change often enough that publishing a fixed figure per vendor would be publishing something stale. Grouped with a pointer to each vendor's own nonprofit page rather than given false precision. Searching the company name plus "for nonprofits" reaches the primary source in one step.

A free nonprofit profile that receives corporate donations, grants and volunteers. Benevity's own figures: "965+ Purpose-driven clients", "16M Supporters", "$16.8B In donations" facilitated. Benevity states "it's free for nonprofits to register, build a profile and receive donations, grants and volunteers".

Benevity does not publish its fee structure on the nonprofit page. The intake recorded a variable cause support fee plus merchant fees averaging around 2.9% of a gross donation, and a 7% payout fee after three paper cheques with a $25 minimum and $100 maximum. Those figures are unconfirmed here, and "free to register" is not the same as free to receive, so ask before choosing a payout method.

• Registration being free says nothing about what is withheld from a donation before it reaches you. Get the current fee schedule in writing.
• EFT rather than cheque is the cheaper payout route, per the intake.

Exemption from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) for an organisation "organized and operated exclusively for exempt purposes".

• Organised and operated exclusively for an exempt purpose
• "None of its earnings may inure to any private shareholder or individual"
• It "may not attempt to influence legislation as a substantial part of its activities" and may not participate in political campaign activity

Organisations meeting the 501(c)(3) requirements become eligible recipients of tax-deductible contributions under IRC section 170. Strictly a benefit to the donor, and one of the strongest fundraising arguments the status carries.

Several states charge nonprofits reduced registration and annual report fees. Varies by state; the per-state figures live in the state guides.

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Pinterest and Nextdoor have no formalised nonprofit donation program. They are organic reach channels; Nextdoor processes donations through PayPal Giving Fund and Pinterest is reached through schedulers such as Later that offer nonprofit discounts. LinkedIn discounts Talent Solutions, Sales Navigator and learning, but the terms move. Indeed and ZipRecruiter run occasional, unformalised nonprofit discounts and credits.

These appear on other lists as benefits with figures attached. Naming them as organic reach rather than grants is more useful than inflating the count.

Up to $10,000 USD a month in Google Search advertising, text ads on the results page. Google states this "equates to a daily budget of $329 USD".

Google's own wording, on its own support page: "This is a limit, not a guarantee of spend. Your actual daily spend will depend on factors like your bids, keyword competitiveness, ad quality, targeting, and the number of people searching for your keywords." Unused budget does not carry to the next month.

$10,000 a month works out to $120,000 a year, and that figure is widely quoted, but no month's unused allowance carries forward, so the annual number is arithmetic rather than a balance anyone holds.

Google: "Any account found in violation of program policies is subject to automatic suspension without notification."

• Current 501(c)(3) status
• A working website on your own domain with unique content and SSL
• Google for Nonprofits membership

• Government entities
• Hospitals and healthcare organisations
• Schools and universities
• Fiscally sponsored organisations without their own 501(c)(3)

• Maintain a 5% click-through rate each month at the account level. Google: "If the CTR requirement isn't met for 2 consecutive months, your account will be temporarily deactivated."
• Accounts created after 22 April 2019 must run conversion tracking and accrue at least one conversion per month. Valid conversions include donations, purchases, ticket sales, membership registrations, email sign-ups and volunteer sign-ups.
• Accounts created after 22 April 2019 must use conversion-based Smart Bidding on every campaign: Maximize conversions, Maximize conversion values, Target CPA, or Target ROAS.
• At least two unique sitelink ad assets.
• Specific geotargeting, set to where the organisation's information and services are actually useful.
• Respond to Google's periodic program surveys. Failing to participate results in deactivation.

• Text search ads only. No Display, no video.
• The old $2 maximum cost-per-click cap is historical. Accounts since April 2019 must use Smart Bidding, which removes it, and Google's current budget page states no maximum bid.
• Deactivation for low CTR is usually reversible: clear out the weak keywords, raise CTR, and resubmit for review.

Ten free Enterprise Edition licences, Agentforce Nonprofit, formerly Nonprofit Cloud, or Sales and Service. Discounts on further licences and products.

The licences are free; making them useful is an implementation project. NPSP is in End of Innovation, supported but receiving no new features.

• US 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4)
• One grant per EIN
• Fiscal sponsorships accepted

• A number of sanctioned countries, and China

For a host organisation: a $10,000 Host Implementation Grant, plus up to $2,500 in Claude licences and API credits per fellow. Fellows work full time for twelve months and are full-time CodePath employees, with salary, benefits, training and support covered by Anthropic, CodePath and Social Finance.

The host must be a 501(c)(3) and already be a Claude for Nonprofits Team or Enterprise customer. The real cost of entry is a paid Claude subscription, and it is stated in the host FAQ rather than on the program's front page.

1,000 fellows across three cohorts, the first starting 19 October 2026.

• 501(c)(3) nonprofit
• Already a Claude for Nonprofits Team or Enterprise customer
• An in-person or hybrid workplace. Fully remote organisations are eligible only for the 2027 cohorts
• A named leadership sponsor and a fellow supervisor
• A manager for the fellow, plus equipment and access: laptop, email, internal systems
• Light reporting: time tracking and monthly surveys
• A plan for what happens after the fellowship
• Commitment to the full twelve months

• New program, to be evaluated after its first year, so a later cohort existing today is not a guarantee it runs.
• Fellows are employed by CodePath as employer of record, not by Anthropic and not by the host.

Google Cloud's free tier: selected products including Compute Engine, Cloud Storage and BigQuery free of charge within monthly usage limits.

The intake recorded up to $10,000 a year in cloud credits for nonprofits. That figure is NOT on the Google page read here, which names no nonprofit credit amount at all, so it is not published. If such a credit exists it needs its own source.

• Ad Grants is not cloud credit. Google lists them as separate products and the two budgets are routinely confused.
• On the Free Trial rather than the free tier, resources created during the trial are stopped automatically when it ends, with a 30 day window to activate a paid account before they are deleted.

Two separate things. The AWS Nonprofit Credit Program gives eligible 501(c) entities $5,000 in AWS credits annually. The AWS Imagine Grant is a competitive award in three categories: Pathfinder, up to $200,000 unrestricted plus up to $100,000 in AWS promotional credit, for frontier AI work with support from the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center. Go Further, Faster, up to $150,000 unrestricted plus up to $100,000 in credit. Momentum to Modernize, up to $50,000 unrestricted plus up to $20,000 in credit.

For the 2026 to 2027 cycle: Round One opens 19 March with a 5 June deadline, so it has closed. Round Two is by invitation, opens 10 August and closes 14 September. Winners are announced publicly on 1 December.

Imagine suits organisations genuinely planning to build on AWS, since a large part of each award is credit rather than cash.

• "Nonprofit organizations with a registered 501(c) status based in the United States"
• Any annual budget size, across all cause areas

• "Educational institutions are excluded at this time"

"Save 40% on a unified platform", applied to "net-new Professional or Enterprise Tier HubSpot products. Starter Tier products and certain limit increases are excluded."

• "located and registered as a nonprofit in North America, Australia, or New Zealand"
• Must be a new HubSpot customer. Existing customers cannot apply it to a current subscription
• "Sign up for an annual term contract (1 year subscription)"

• "This offer cannot be coupled with any other discount offer."
• HubSpot describes itself as "piloting our Nonprofit program" with regional expansion planned later. A pilot is a program that can be paused, and there is a paused pilot elsewhere on this page.
• The intake recorded a mandatory onboarding fee on Professional and Enterprise running to several thousand dollars and not covered by the discount, and a post-discount Marketing Hub Professional price around $480 a month. Neither figure is on HubSpot's nonprofit page, so both are unconfirmed, but ask about onboarding before signing an annual contract.

A donate button on the Page and in posts, donation stickers in Stories, fundraisers in posts, Reels and Live, a Support button, and donation matching on Instagram for accounts over 10,000 followers.

• An eligible nonprofit Facebook Page
• Apply for Meta fundraising tools
• US, UK, Canada, Australia

• Meta changes processing periodically, having moved from Network for Good to PayPal Giving Fund, and nonprofits have lost access to the tools over regulatory changes.
• Sector reporting finds donation stickers largely ineffective.

Promoted hashtag campaigns, donation stickers and a Support Now button through Benevity Causes and Tiltify, and a nonprofit listing in the profile.

• A Benevity Causes profile and a Tiltify account
• Direct contact with TikTok for Good
• Live streaming requires 1,000+ followers

• Less formalised than other programs and requires direct contact.
• Terms and campaigns change.

"A comprehensive, fully-automated matching gift and workplace giving software tool" that identifies match-eligible donors and routes them to submit. Essentials covers one donation platform integration, automated emails, an embeddable search plugin, and access to volunteer grants and payroll giving. Standard adds unlimited integrations, CRM support, CSV import and revenue reporting. Enterprise adds parent and child accounts, custom APIs and multi-channel messaging.

Essentials is free for the first year, then priced by how much matched revenue it identifies: $300 a year up to $2,000 identified, $500 up to $5,000, $1,200 up to $15,000. Standard starts at $999 a year. Enterprise starts at $30,000 a year.

Listed because employer matching is money the donor's employer has already committed and that mostly goes unclaimed. It is a paid tool, not a benefit.

• Essentials is for organisations under $250,000 in annual contributions

Varies by state, substantially. Many states grant a broad sales tax exemption on nonprofit purchases; California does not, offering only narrow exceptions such as the welfare exemption for poverty-relief organisations, requiring a request to CDTFA. Property tax relief in California runs through the Welfare Exemption, administered by BOE and the county assessor, needing an Organizational Clearance Certificate plus form BOE-267 filed with the county assessor by 15 February for a full exemption, and the organising documents must contain an irrevocable dedication clause. California franchise and income tax exemption is separate from federal and requires FTB 3500; federal recognition is not sufficient. Organisations under $50,000 in gross receipts file Form 199N.

This is the one category the site already covers properly, state by state, with citations. Link to /states/ rather than duplicating it here.

Access to federal grant opportunities.

Register with SAM.gov before you can apply through Grants.gov. The organisation names an Electronic Business Point of Contact, and SAM.gov issues a Unique Entity ID: "It will get a special ID number called a Unique Entity ID or UEI. This ID will automatically appear in your applications." Grants.gov states "It's free to register."

Not a Grants.gov rule but general practice: operating history and track record, IRS Form 990, an organisational budget and a program description.

• "You must renew SAM.gov registration every year."

• Start earlier than you think. Grants.gov: "Allow up to 10 business days for SAM registration to become active. If information isn't available or verified, it could take weeks or months to complete SAM.gov registration." A grant deadline does not wait for it.
• Since Grants.gov states registration is free, any third party charging to obtain a UEI or complete SAM.gov registration is charging for something the government gives away.

Walmart Spark Good Local Grants: local cash grants of $250 to $5,000, requiring a Spark Good account and verification through Deed, 501(c)(3) public charity in the IRS Master File, with organisational track record considered. Three cycles a year. Bank of America Charitable Foundation: local grants, 501(c)(3) not a private foundation and not through a fiscal sponsor, registration in NPO Hub and ACH acceptance, only within defined application windows, priorities basic needs, income and housing. Costco Wholesale: children, education, health and human services, 501(c)(3), one application per fiscal year September to August, no more than 10% of a program budget, current and prior year budgets required and an impact report for repeat grantees.

Local foundations fund organisations in their own region. Typically require 501(c)(3) status, a local connection, a budget and a program description.

Specialist nonprofit insurers offer D&O, directors and officers, general liability and other lines at targeted rates.

Not a free benefit. A targeted insurance market and an operational necessity, listed so it is not mistaken for a grant.

Microsoft 365 Business Basic granted free for up to 300 users: web and mobile Microsoft 365 apps, Teams, Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, essential security features, and 1 TB of cloud storage per user.

Business Premium and Office 365 E1 are discounted now, not granted. Microsoft's own nonprofit pricing lists Business Premium at $5.50 per user per month, E3 at $9.75 and E5 at $24, and Microsoft 365 Copilot at 15% off. Any write-up still describing Business Premium or E1 as a free grant is out of date, and there are many.

• Schools and universities
• Government agencies
• Financial institutions
• Professional associations
• Sports organisations
• Political organisations
• Individuals

• Maintain at least 85% active usage of all granted licences. Microsoft's eligibility page names "failure to remove unused grant licenses from an organization's subscription (i.e., failure to maintain at least 85% active usage of all granted licenses)" as grounds for losing access.
• Complete Microsoft's required periodic attestation. "Failure to complete the required attestation may remove eligibility for Microsoft's nonprofit programs unless/until organization completes the required attestation."

• Business Basic excludes the desktop versions of Word, Excel and Outlook, Intune, and advanced threat protection.
• Licences have to be changed by hand in the admin center; missing that risks data loss.
• The 85% rule is the one most organisations do not know about. Granting seats to people who never sign in is what breaks it, and the penalty falls on future grants, not just this one.

$1,000 a month in Bing and Microsoft Audience Network advertising credits, extendable to $3,000 by adding $800 of your own spend.

There is no way to apply today. Microsoft's own page states: "The pilot is currently paused for grants on Microsoft's advertising network." Microsoft says it is "continuing to refine the program and product to support onboarding more nonprofits" and will "reach out with more information once we expand Ads for Social Impact to more organizations in the future." No reopening date is given, and organisations can register to be notified.

Because other nonprofit-benefits lists still present it as an open program you can apply to, and it is not one. Knowing that saves the application. Note the precise status though: paused is what Microsoft says, and paused is not the same as retired.

If campaigns were left running after a grant ended, Microsoft charges the card on file.

Acrobat Pro at a nonprofit discount on a one-year subscription, requested direct from Adobe, with Adobe Express free. Creative Cloud individual one-year memberships at a discount.

Creative Cloud for Education (Teams) is discontinued after 31 March 2026 and users move to Creative Cloud Pro for Teams, reported at $99.99 per user per month, which is a different order of cost. Acrobat Pro also moved to Adobe's own offer.

• 501(c)(3)