// NONPROFIT WEBSITE DESIGN
Nonprofit website design, built to a fixed price
Nonprofit website design for US charities and community organizations working to a fixed grant budget, a board approval cycle and a real accessibility obligation. One number agreed before we start. You own the site and the domain, with no lock-in.
// WHY IT IS DIFFERENT
A charity site carries loads a small business site never does
A contractor signs off on their own website in an afternoon. You answer to a board, and a decision has to survive a meeting and a set of minutes.
Your funding is granted for a period and has to be reported on, so an open-ended monthly retainer is the wrong shape for the money you actually hold. Next year's budget is not guaranteed either, which makes being locked into a builder you cannot leave a genuine risk.
You are also regulated in a way a business is not. Your legal name and your basic details are public in the IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search and in your Form 990, and the site should line up with them. If you hold 501(c)(3) status, your donation page can say contributions are tax-deductible. If you do not, it must not hint that they are. If you solicit donations across state lines, most states also want you registered to do it, and your registration number is the kind of detail that belongs on the site rather than in a drawer.
And you are talking to two groups at once with different questions: donors and funders on one side, service users and volunteers on the other. A single homepage aimed at everyone reaches nobody.
// WHAT'S INCLUDED
What a nonprofit website design project includes
Websites start from $1,070 for a single page, and a full multi-page conversion website starts from $1,997. The full price list is public, so you can put a real number in a grant application without calling us first.
A donation path built for your status
The donate flow, the wording and the receipt are built around whether you hold 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, so the page never says more than it should.
Volunteer sign-up as its own path
Volunteers are a separate conversion with separate questions. They get their own page and their own short form, not the donation form with a different heading.
Accessible by construction
Built to WCAG guidelines from the first line of markup: strong contrast, real text, keyboard operation, visible focus and labeled forms.
Plain language, no sector jargon
Your programs written so a service user, a family member and a grant assessor all understand them without a glossary.
Fast on a phone with one bar
Hand-coded and edge-hosted, so the site opens quickly in a community center, on a rural connection, or on an old handset.
Programs and eligibility laid out clearly
What you run, who it is for and how to access it, on the page instead of buried in a downloadable PDF.
// ACCESSIBILITY
Accessibility is an obligation here, not a nice-to-have
The people your programs serve are far more likely than the general population to include someone with a disability. That is often the whole point of the organization.
There is also real exposure. Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act has been read to reach websites, and web accessibility demand letters and suits are filed against nonprofits as readily as against businesses. The Department of Justice has consistently pointed at WCAG as the practical benchmark. If any part of what you run is federally funded, Section 508 brings its own requirements on top.
So we build to WCAG guidelines from the start rather than bolting on an overlay widget at the end. Overlay widgets are the thing that gets sold as a fix and has repeatedly turned up as a defendant's problem rather than a defense. The same discipline runs through every website we build, not just the ones where a funder asks about it.
To be straight with you: we hold no accessibility certification and we are not lawyers. We build carefully and we tell you what we checked. If a funder or your counsel wants a formal WCAG conformance audit or a VPAT signed by a specialist, that is a different job and we will point you at it.
- Color contrast that passes WCAG AA, checked rather than eyeballed
- Real text instead of words baked into images, so it can be read out and resized
- Every link, button, menu and form usable with a keyboard alone, with a visible focus ring
- Form fields with proper labels, not placeholder text that vanishes when you type
- Headings in order, so a screen reader user can skim the page the way you can
- Alt text on meaningful images, and none on decorative ones
- Text that still works when a visitor scales it to 200 percent
- Motion and animation that respect the reduced-motion setting
// TWO CONVERSIONS
Donors and volunteers are two different conversions
Most nonprofit sites have one path and it points at the donate button. Volunteers are the other half of your capacity, and they need a different page, a different set of questions and their own measurement.
// PATH ONE
Give
- One-off and recurring giving, both obvious, not one hidden in a dropdown
- Suggested amounts tied to something real your organization does
- An acknowledgment that carries the right details for your tax-exempt status
- A thank-you page that can be tracked, so you know what the site raised
// PATH TWO
Volunteer
- What the role actually involves, in plain words, before the form
- The real time commitment, so you stop fielding people who cannot do it
- Screening spelled out up front: background check, references, orientation
- A short form someone can finish standing up on a phone
Both paths get their own tracked conversion. That means you can tell your board which one the website is producing, instead of guessing from total traffic.
// 501(C)(3) AND REGISTRATION
Your tax-exempt status decides what the donate page can say
This is the compliance detail a generic web designer will miss, because it never comes up on a plumbing site. It is the first thing we ask about.
If you hold 501(c)(3) status. Contributions are generally tax-deductible to the donor to the extent the law allows. The page can say so plainly, the wording should be easy to understand rather than buried, and the automated acknowledgment needs the details the IRS expects on it, which matters most for gifts of $250 or more. Done well, this lifts average gift size on its own.
If you do not hold it. Nothing on the page may imply a donation is deductible. Not the heading, not the reassurance line under the button, not the small print, and not the emailed acknowledgment. Copy pasted from another organization's site is the usual way this goes wrong.
If your determination letter is in hand. Your legal name, your EIN and the basics on the site should match what appears in the IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search, in Publication 78 and in your most recent Form 990. A careful donor or a grant officer checks. A mismatch reads as carelessness at best.
If you solicit donations from the public. Most states require charitable-solicitation registration before you ask their residents for money, and several want specific disclosure wording next to the donate button. Tell us which states you are registered in and what they require, and we put it where it belongs instead of at the bottom of a legal page nobody opens.
We ask about your status at the start and build the donation flow to match it. We are not tax or legal advisers, so we do not advise on getting or keeping exempt status, and we do not decide what your site says about deductibility. Confirm your status through the IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search or with your accountant, tell us, and we build to that.
// AD GRANT READY
Built so the Google Ad Grant is not blocked by your website
Google Ad Grants gives eligible nonprofits up to $10,000 a month in Google Search advertising. The ads are free. Qualifying is not automatic, and your website is part of what gets assessed, so a thin or broken site quietly costs you the largest marketing budget you will ever be offered.
Substantial, honest content
The grant expects a working site with real content about your mission and programs. A one-page placeholder or a link tree is the kind of site that gets an application knocked back.
Conversion tracking that works
The account has to record conversions. We wire the tracking during the build, so donations and volunteer sign-ups are measurable from the day the site goes live.
Specific landing pages
Each ad needs a page that answers the search. We build a page per program rather than pointing every keyword at the homepage and hoping.
Google also wants the domain in your organization's name with a valid HTTPS certificate. You own the domain and we serve everything over HTTPS as standard, so that part is already handled. We do not apply for the grant on your behalf: eligibility is Google's decision and the policy is Google's to change. If you want the account itself run once the grant is approved, that is scoped separately as Google Ad Grant management.
// HOW IT RUNS
A process that survives a board meeting
Built around the way decisions actually get made in a nonprofit: approved by a group, paid from a defined pool of money, reported on afterwards.
Scope
A short call about your programs, your funding period and who has to approve the spend. Then one fixed price in writing, itemized enough to sit in a grant application.
Approve
Your board or committee gets one document with one number to vote on. No hourly estimate to argue about, no range that moves after the meeting.
Build
We hand-code it and put it on a private staging link, so committee members can look through it in their own time instead of in a ten-minute agenda item.
Review
Changes come back to us in one consolidated round, collected from everyone at once, so the site is not pulled in two directions by two reviewers.
Hand over
We put it live and hand over the accounts. You own the site and the domain, so a lean funding year is a budget decision, not a crisis.
Those speed numbers are measured on webblend.us itself, not promised for your build, because your content and your donation platform affect the result. The contrast level is a standard we hold every build to. Web Blend builds for nonprofits nationwide alongside trades and service businesses, and the whole process runs on calls, email and a private staging link.
// QUESTIONS
Straight answers before you ask
Not sure how this fits your grant period, your board, or your 501(c)(3) status? Ask us directly and you will get a straight answer, including when the answer is no.
Get in touchHow much does a nonprofit website cost?
Websites start from $1,070 for a single page, and a full multi-page conversion website starts from $1,997. You get one fixed number in writing before anything starts, which is what makes it usable in a grant application or a grant report. There is no lock-in: once the build is paid for, the site and the domain are yours.
Do you understand 501(c)(3) and charitable registration requirements?
Enough to build the donation flow correctly and to ask the right questions before we start. If you hold 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, we build the donate page and the receipting to reflect that contributions are tax-deductible to the extent the law allows, and we make sure the acknowledgment carries the details the IRS expects, which matters most for gifts of $250 or more. If you do not hold that status, we make sure nothing on the page, in the small print or in the automated receipt implies that gifts are deductible. We are not tax or legal advisers, so your exempt status and your public statements about deductibility stay your call. Confirm your status through the IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search or with your accountant and we build to it.
Will the site meet the Google Ad Grant requirements?
We build to the standard the grant expects: substantial content about your mission and programs, working conversion tracking, specific landing pages instead of one catch-all homepage, and HTTPS on a domain your organization owns. We do not apply for the grant on your behalf, because eligibility is Google's decision and the policy is Google's to change. Running the account after the grant is approved is a separate service, scoped separately.
Our funding is granted for a fixed period. Does that work?
It suits how we price. One fixed number agreed up front against a defined scope, so the spend lands inside the grant period and there is a clean line item for the report. No open-ended retainer still running after your reporting date.
Our board has to approve it. How does that work?
You get a written scope with a single price, which is the format a board can actually vote on. During the build the site sits on a private staging link so members review it when they have time, and their comments come back to us together as one round of changes.
Is the site accessible?
We build to WCAG guidelines from the start: contrast, real text, keyboard operation, visible focus, labeled forms and headings in a sensible order. That is the same standard courts and the Department of Justice have pointed to when ADA Title III web claims come up, and the same family of criteria behind Section 508 if you take federal funding. We hold no accessibility certification and we will not pretend otherwise. If a funder or your counsel needs a formal WCAG conformance audit or a VPAT, that is a specialist job and we will say so rather than sell it to you.
Do you only work with nonprofits in one state?
No. We work with nonprofits anywhere in the United States. The work runs on calls, email and a private staging link, so where your office is makes very little difference to the build.
// READY WHEN YOU ARE
Get one number your board can vote on
Tell us what your organization does, whether you hold 501(c)(3) status, and when the funding has to be spent. We will come back with a scope and a fixed price you can take to the next meeting.
Get a fixed price