Getting Started with Claude for Nonprofits

Claude for Nonprofits enhances Claude with specialized capabilities for mission-driven organizations. It connects Claude to the donor management platforms, foundation research databases, and collaboration tools nonprofits use daily, eliminating the need to toggle between systems and enabling insights that span your entire operational ecosystem to accelerate mission delivery while maintaining the transparency and accountability critical to social impact work.

Learn more about Claude for Nonprofits on our solution page.

Organizations can access Claude for Nonprofits features and pricing through the Team plan ($8/user/month) or the Enterprise plan ($10/user/month).

For teams with less than 20 seats (minimum five seats), you can access Claude for Nonprofits by filling out this short form to verify your nonprofit status.

For larger organizations looking to access the Enterprise plan, please contact our sales team.

Through Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectors, Claude connects directly to leading nonprofit platforms and databases, enabling you to query data using natural language and receive responses with source citations.

Claude also includes Connectors to other workplace and productivity platforms like Microsoft 365, Gmail & Google Drive, Google Workspace, Asana, Slack, HubSpot, and many more. Explore all available Claude Connectors here.

AI Fluency for Nonprofits is a sector-specific enablement course designed to help mission-driven organizations adopt AI effectively and responsibly. Co-created with Giving Tuesday, this course provides practical guidance on integrating AI into nonprofit workflows while maintaining your organization's values and mission focus.

The course includes:

Access the AI Fluency for Nonprofits course through Anthropic Academy.

Get started with nonprofit use cases including program design, AI policy template generator, program data visualization and more. See here for our nonprofit use cases page.

Our nonprofit program pricing is available to qualifying nonprofits with 501(c)(3) designation or equivalent international designations. We also include K-12 public & private schools in our nonprofit pricing.

Additionally, mission-based healthcare organizations with 501(c)(3) status may qualify, including independent Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) and Rural Emergency Hospitals (REHs) not part of larger health systems, HRSA-designated Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and FQHC Look-Alikes, and CMS-certified Rural Health Clinics (RHCs).

At this time, the following organizations are not eligible:

For Enterprise plans: When you click "Contact Sales," our nonprofit sales team will verify your 501(c)(3) or equivalent nonprofit status as part of the sales conversation.

For Team plans (self-serve): You'll be directed to our validation partner, Goodstack, to verify your nonprofit status. This process should take no more than 2-3 minutes. Once approved, you'll receive an email to complete your account setup with nonprofit pricing automatically applied.

Anthropic partners with Goodstack to validate nonprofit eligibility criteria. If you have questions about your application, please contact Goodstack here.

If you already have a paid Teams account on your nonprofit organization email and qualify for nonprofit pricing, please follow these steps:

If you already have a paid Enterprise account on your nonprofit organization email, please contact sales.

Claude offers purpose-built integrations with leading nonprofit platforms including Microsoft 365, Candid, Blackbaud, Asana, and other sector-specific tools through our MCP (Model Context Protocol) partnerships. These integrations allow Claude to work seamlessly within your existing workflows - from grant writing in your CRM to program evaluation in your data platforms - without requiring technical expertise or custom development.

See more on how to set up connectors here.

As with all Teams and Enterprise accounts, data shared with Claude is kept private: by default, we don’t use it to train our models. Claude maintains SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and HIPAA compliance, and our connectors don’t access anything that you haven’t explicitly granted them permission to. See our Privacy Center for additional details.

For detailed information on our security practices and compliance certifications, visit our Trust Center.

Every nonprofit can access our AI Fluency for Nonprofits course and nonprofit use cases in our use case library, designed specifically for mission-driven organizations. Our Help Center is available to all nonprofits for most commonly asked questions or technical issues that require support.

The Team plan is perfect for smaller nonprofits or individual departments, supporting up to 20 users with collaborative workspaces and SSO. This is available self-serve, please fill out this short form to verify.

The Enterprise plan is designed for larger organizations needing advanced features like custom data retention policies, expanded context windows for complex documents, SCIM provisioning, and dedicated success management.

We track both efficiency metrics and mission advancement indicators. This includes traditional metrics like user adoption rates and time saved, but more importantly, mission-specific outcomes like increase in beneficiaries served, improvement in program outcome measurements, growth in funding secured, and enhancement in stakeholder engagement scores. We work with each enterprise partner to establish baseline metrics and track progress quarterly, sharing aggregated insights across our nonprofit community to drive sector-wide learning.

Because we do not have a way to proactively apply Sales tax exemption, when setting up your organization’s account for the first time, you will get charged tax by default. Once you purchase, the process to get that tax refunded and removed from all future purchases is to email your Sales tax exempt form using the “Get Help” button in your Claude account (more information on this here).