Free Charity Hosting

In order that we can make an offer of either free or discounted hosting:

You must be a registered USA 501(c)(3) non-profit currently listed on the Charity Navigator website, and supply an official United States IRS letter that indicates your non-profit status. This is known as a 501(c)(3) determination letter.

Your charity must be up to date with its reporting requirements, such as submitting annual accounts.

We must be able to verify that you are authorized to represent this charity.

We may also be able to accept requests from a limited number of charities outside of the US , providing that we can verify that your charity is officially registered in your country, and that this database exists online.

The majority of registered charities who apply will receive an offer of completely free hosting.

The offer is made at our sole discretion, but is generally made to any small, secular, independent charity which we consider to have a reasonably broad purpose and geographical presence.

As much as we’d love to help  single charity free of charge, we simply don’t have the resources to do so and as such we do have some limitations so will make decisions at our sole discretion.

We are unable to provide free hosting to:

Universities, housing associations and student unions.

Schools, kindergartens, play groups, parent teacher associations, and booster clubs.

Scout/Guide groups, or any similar local group of a larger national or international movement.

Local offices or branches of larger charities.

Non-secular charities

Larger charities with an annual income exceeding $400,000 USD or with any single employee who is remunerated in excess of $60,000 USD per annum.

Funds or charities with net cash or investments greater than 3.5x their annual expenditure.

If we are unable to offer you completely free hosting, we will generally be able to provide you with our hosting services with a 60% discount.

We will provide you with our premium plan for free, with no time limits on expiry, so long as your hosted domain names are registered with us/transferred to us on the next renewal period, and you continue to meet our other criteria. All we require in return is a small link back to this page in the foot of your web site to help us promote the initiative and help even more charities. We also require your permission to add your logo to this page and provide you with a link back to your web site, though we are under no obligation to do so.

The premium plan will be suitable for the vast majority of charity web sites up to around 20,000 visitors per month. If you need something more than the Solo plan, we can provide a discount of up to 60% on other hosting services. Get in touch and let us know about your web site, and we’ll let you know what additional fees may apply.

Yes. Our support is an excellent service that has allowed us to grow at the current pace.  We provide the same service level to the charities we host for free as we do our paying customers.

Yes sure! We will provide a free web site transfer service so your existing web site comes across without a hassle.

Yes. Registering domain/transferring  your domains on the next renewal period to reachnetsystems is a requirement of our free hosting. The bottom line is that you’ll need to pay someone for a domain name. If we support your domain extension, this may as well be us – doing so helps us cover some nominal raw costs we incur in providing this service for free. What’s more, we’re very affordable for domains and you may even pay less with us than you pay another registrar. If you have existing domains and haven’t ever switched registrar before – do not worry – we can help you get them moved across easily.

We set up charity hosting accounts manually as we need to carefully vet all applicants to make sure they are legitimate charities. Assuming you qualify, we should be able to get you set up within a few hours. If you have an existing web site, we should be able to migrate it across for you within 24 hours.

We would love you to do so. Your blog posts, or  social media posts to this page will be highly regarded. We have no limit on the number of charities we can host and we’d like to help as many as possible. Please get in touch below if you have any specific ideas to help spread the word. Reach us at [email protected] or by calling us at 816.800.8870.