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

The older aggregator. Checks the IRS determination letter, usually about two business days.

Microsoft donated products, Adobe (historically), Intuit / QuickBooks, HubSpot, Notion, Canva in some countries

Admin fees are real and non-refundable. A small nonprofit typically spends $200 to $500 a year on them across products, and on a single-seat SaaS item the fee can eat the saving.

501(c)(4), 501(c)(6)

The newer aggregator, used by most of the recent programs.

Google for Nonprofits, Anthropic, OpenAI, Twilio.org, Canva, Stripe partners

A free plan equivalent to Business Starter: Gmail on your own domain, 100 TB pooled storage, Meet, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Sites, Chat, the Gemini app, NotebookLM and AppSheet Core. Up to 2,000 users, though new accounts start at 300 with expansion on request.

Business Standard, Plus and Enterprise at up to 75% off, from about $3.50 per seat per month.

Apply to Google for Nonprofits, verified through Goodstack. Two to fourteen business days.

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

• US 501(c)(3)
• Your own domain, roughly $12 a year from a registrar

• Schools
• Hospitals
• Government entities

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.

Create a Canva account, apply, usually a few business days and up to seven to ten.

• Registered 501(c)(3)
• Verification through Goodstack or Percent
• 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 admin 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 available through TechSoup.
• It cannot be applied to an existing QuickBooks account; the data has to be migrated.
• The admin fee is payable every year.

Up to 75% off Team and Enterprise plans. Claude Code and Cowork included per seat, connectors for Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Asana, Slack and Box plus nonprofit connectors for Benevity, Blackbaud and Candid, and a free AI Fluency for Nonprofits course.

2 December 2025, with GivingTuesday

Complete the verification form, Goodstack confirms, the discount applies on the billing page. Not applied retroactively. No annual reapplication while nonprofit status holds.

• Team plan from 2 to 150 seats
• Goodstack verification using an organisational email, not gmail or similar

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.

• Goodstack verification
• 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, external links from videos, a donate button through YouTube Giving, Creator Academy access and dedicated support.

Through Google for Nonprofits, then activate YouTube. Two to fourteen business days.

• US-registered 501(c)(3) public charity
• Active Google for Nonprofits account
• YouTube Giving requires opting in through Candid, formerly GuideStar

• 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.

Email [email protected] before your first campaign launches. The discount is not retroactive.

• 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.

Roughly 30% to 60% off bulk Marketing Mail. At the 5-digit automation level, about $0.178 a piece against $0.372 commercial, around 52%.

File PS Form 3624 at a Business Mail Entry Unit with the IRS letter, articles of incorporation, a description of activities, financials and a mailing sample. No application fee. Two to three weeks. Authorisation is permanent, no reapplication, but at least one mailing every two years is required.

• 501(c)(3) and several other categories including religious, educational, scientific and veterans organisations
• The organisation's primary purpose must match the category. Holding a 501(c)(3) is not enough if the activity is predominantly commercial.

• Business leagues
• Chambers of commerce
• Hobby clubs

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

An annual $2,000 Azure credit for verified nonprofits, through the Nonprofit Hub.

• Must be activated within 90 days.
• Must be renewed manually every year.
• Exceeding the credit auto-converts to pay-as-you-go billed to the card on file.
• Does not cover reserved instances or third-party marketplace offers.

50% off the Team or Plus plan.

TechSoup verification, then a one-time promo code. Usually three to five business days.

A one-time $100 credit, roughly 80,000 SMS or hundreds of voice calls, plus 25% off most products in the US and Canada, 10% elsewhere. Credits do not expire and the discount stacks with volume discounts.

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

• 501(c)(3) and equivalents, and social enterprises
• Goodstack verification, instant approval for many

A free GitHub Team plan, or 25% off GitHub Enterprise Cloud.

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 offer nonprofit discounts, commonly 15% to 50%, or donated tiers through TechSoup or their own verified programs.

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 official page rather than given false precision.

Free nonprofit registration to receive corporate donations and matching from the employees of over 2.4 million client companies. No upfront cost; costs come out of payouts.

• Benevity withholds a variable cause support fee plus merchant fees before payout, averaging around 2.9% of the gross donation.
• After three paper cheques a 7% payout fee applies, minimum $25 and maximum $100. Use EFT.

Exemption from federal income tax under 501(c)(3) once the IRS issues the determination letter, on Form 1023 or 1023-EZ.

Donors can deduct contributions from taxable income. Strictly a benefit to the donor, and one of the strongest fundraising arguments the status provides.

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.

Register with Google for Nonprofits, verified through Goodstack, then activate Ad Grants. Review typically two to four weeks.

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.

Apply through the Power of Us Portal with a Trailblazer ID and the IRS determination letter. Around three business days, reported as up to fourteen. The licences are free and do not expire.

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 one-time $10,000 implementation grant plus up to $2,500 of Claude API credits per fellow hosted. Fellows work full time for twelve months, their $85,000 salary and full benefits paid by the program, and the host owns all of their output.

Buried in the host FAQ: the host must be a US 501(c)(3) and already be a paying Claude for Nonprofits customer, Team or Enterprise. The real cost of entry is a paid Claude subscription.

The intake recorded applications closing 17 July 2026 at 23:59 PT, which has already passed as of August 2026. Whether a later cohort is open must be checked before this is published at all.

A $150 million commitment, part of a larger $350 million package. Target of 1,000 fellows across three cohorts, first cohort of 100 starting 19 October 2026, later cohorts January 2027 and August 2027, with at least 400 host organisations receiving grant and credits.

• New program, to be evaluated after its first year and may not continue.
• Fellows are employed by CodePath, not Anthropic.

Google Cloud Free Tier within monthly limits, and up to $10,000 a year in cloud credits for nonprofits. Research credits for nonprofit research institutes.

• Ad Grants is not cloud credit. The two budgets are unrelated and are routinely confused.
• Credits expire and can be lost unused.

AWS Nonprofit Credit Program: up to $5,000 a year in promotional credits for registered 501(c) organisations. AWS Imagine Grant: an annual competitive program with categories Pathfinder, frontier AI, up to $200,000 unrestricted plus up to $100,000 in credits, Go Further Faster, and Momentum to Modernize, combining cash, credits and technical support.

Imagine suits organisations genuinely planning to build on AWS. The intake recorded a Round One deadline around 5 June 2026 for the 2026 cycle, which has passed; the current cycle must be checked.

• Registered US 501(c) organisations

• Educational institutions

40% off paid Marketing, Sales, Service, CMS and Data Hub, Professional and Enterprise tiers.

• Registered nonprofit in North America, Australia or New Zealand
• Must be a new HubSpot customer
• Annual contract
• TechSoup verification

• A mandatory onboarding fee applies to Pro and Enterprise, is not covered by the discount, often runs to several thousand dollars, and can sometimes be waived by going through a partner.
• Hospitals, healthcare and universities usually do not qualify.
• Steep learning curve. After the discount, Marketing Hub Professional is around $480 a month.
• Does not apply to existing subscriptions and does not stack.

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.

Matching-gift software, the 360MatchPro engine, which identifies which donors are eligible for employer matching and routes them to apply.

Essentials, for organisations under $250,000 in Form 990 contributions, starts free then charges by use, for example $300 for the first year up to $2,000 identified, $500 up to $5,000, $1,200 up to $15,000. Standard from $999 a year. Enterprise from $30,000 a year.

Listed because employer matching is money already committed by the donor's employer and left unclaimed. It is a paid tool, not a benefit.

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.

The organisation must register with SAM.gov and obtain a UEI, a Unique Entity Identifier, before it can apply through Grants.gov. SAM.gov registration is free and renews annually. Activation takes roughly seven to ten business days.

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

• Third parties charge for what the government provides free. Never pay for SAM.gov or UEI registration.

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 free for up to 300 seats: web and mobile Office apps, Teams, OneDrive, Exchange. Business Standard, Business Premium and Office 365 E1 at up to 75% off, paid.

The free grants of Business Premium, ten licences, and of Office 365 E1 were cancelled as of 1 July 2025, running until each organisation's next renewal after that date. Premium and E1 must not be described as free. E1 for nonprofits is also being wound down and remains available to larger organisations through an Enterprise Agreement.

• Business Basic excludes desktop 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.

Acrobat Pro through Adobe's own nonprofit offer, live since November 2024, around $15 a year per licence, up to ten licences per organisation. Creative Cloud through nonprofit and education offers.

Acrobat Pro is no longer sold through TechSoup and moved to Adobe's direct offer. Creative Cloud for Education Teams is being wound down after March 2026 and replaced by Creative Cloud Pro for Teams at new pricing.

• 501(c)(3)
• Creative Cloud for education teams requires a budget of $1 million or less

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

Launched June 2022. Final grants issued 30 November 2025, organisations had 45 days to use the remaining balance, full closure early 2026. Must not be presented as active.

Because almost every other nonprofit-benefits list on the web still shows it as available. Knowing a program is dead saves the application.

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