What's Included | Pricing

What’s included

• A one-on-one interview. We don’t hand you a questionnaire. We interview you, identify what makes your organization distinctive, and turn that conversation into a polished profile. Most organizations know their mission. Few know how to communicate it well. This is the part most cannot do for themselves, and it is where your profile comes from.
• Writing and assembly. Our team writes your profile and builds the entire page. You do not draft, format, upload, or lay anything out.
• Editorial review. Every profile is reviewed by our editorial team before it publishes, so what appears under your name meets the platform’s standard.
• Verification. We confirm that you represent the organization before anything goes live. This is what makes a claimed profile credible rather than something anyone could post.
• Publication at a permanent address. Your profile lives at philanthropy.org/your-organization, a clean, lasting address that is yours.
• A link from your IRS page. Your Form 990 page, the one people already find when they search you, links straight to your profile. That link is the doorway from the public record to your side of the story.

Only one organization can claim its profile

Every organization has one profile, and only the organization itself can claim it. Once claimed, it becomes the official claimed profile associated with your organization on Philanthropy.org. We verify every claimant before publication, so anyone reading it knows the profile represents the organization itself and not an outside contributor.

What the $500 a year covers

Beginning the year after your profile publishes, the annual fee keeps it live, current, and maintained by us rather than by you:

• Your profile remains published, maintained, and continuously available at its permanent Philanthropy.org address.
• Send us changes whenever something important happens. New CEO. New campaign. New annual report. New strategic initiative. We make the updates for you.
• Your link from the IRS page stays in place, so the doorway to your profile stays open.

You never log into anything or manage a page. If something changes at your organization, you tell us, and we take care of it.

Why organizations choose to claim their profile

Most of this fee is people, not software. A member of our team interviews you, another writes and builds the profile, and our editorial team reviews it before it publishes. That is real work by real professionals, and it is the reason a claimed profile reads like something worth trusting rather than a form someone filled out.

Hiring a professional writer, editor, and designer to produce this independently would cost substantially more. Even then, you would still need to find a place people actually discover it. Your profile is not simply created. It is published exactly where people researching your organization are already looking.

It grows more valuable over time

Unlike most marketing expenses, this one is not consumed the moment it is paid for. Your profile remains online year after year while Philanthropy.org continues to grow in authority, visibility, and search presence. The earlier you claim it, the longer it has to accumulate that visibility, and the more it is working for you before anyone else in your field catches on.

What it costs to do nothing

Your IRS 990 page stays live either way. It keeps appearing in search results, accurate and intentionally neutral, with none of your context and no link to your side of the story. There is no fee for that, but there is a cost: every board member, major donor, advisor, and journalist who researches you sees only the filing and draws their own conclusions from it.

Ready, or want to talk it through first?

If you are ready, you can claim your profile now. If you would rather ask questions first, or talk through whether this makes sense for your organization, we are glad to have that conversation.

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