A nonprofit looking for a free website mostly finds online builders: the tool is free, the work is not. Here are fifteen services, ordered by how much each one takes off your hands, with what every provider publishes about its own free offer.
Services are ordered by what the organisation still has to do itself. First come those that build the site and keep it up to date for you, then the programmes reserved for nonprofit organisations, then the free offers open to everyone, and finally hosting for those who bring their own pages. Within each group the order is alphabetical. Every cell repeats what the provider publishes on its own pages, read on 6 September 2026.
| Service | What the free offer includes | Who builds the site and keeps it up to date | Own domain name without a paid plan | Who it is open to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The site is built and kept up to date for you | ||||
| Fondation Simafri | The site, hosting, the SSL certificate, email addresses and content updates | The programme team | Yes, the one the organisation owns and keeps | Registered nonprofits, on application |
| Programmes reserved for nonprofit organisations | ||||
| Canva for Nonprofits | Canva Pro features, including publishing a site | The organisation | Not stated | Nonprofit organisations, after verification |
| Google for Nonprofits | Google Workspace at no cost, including the Google Sites editor, advertising grants and the YouTube programme | The organisation | Yes, a domain the organisation already owns | Nonprofit organisations, after verification |
| Free offers open to everyone | ||||
| Blogger | A blog hosted by Google, with no time limit | The organisation | Yes, a domain the organisation already owns | Everyone |
| Carrd | Up to three one-page sites, with a "Made with Carrd" line in the footer | The organisation | On a paid plan | Everyone |
| Framer | Up to 30 pages and 1 GB of bandwidth, for non-commercial use | The organisation | On a paid plan | Everyone |
| Jimdo | An online editor and hosting, with a provider banner | The organisation | On a paid plan | Everyone |
| SITE123 | 250 MB of storage and 250 MB of bandwidth | The organisation | On a paid plan | Everyone |
| Strikingly | One-page sites, with a "Powered by Strikingly" line in the footer | The organisation | On a paid plan | Everyone |
| Webflow | Two static pages and 1,000 visits a month, with the "Made in Webflow" badge | The organisation, with technical skills | On a paid plan | Everyone |
| Webnode | An online editor, free with no time limit | The organisation | On a paid plan | Everyone |
| Weebly | A block editor, the SSL certificate and a basic cart | The organisation | On a paid plan | Everyone |
| Wix | A visual editor, templates and hosting | The organisation | On a paid plan | Everyone |
| WordPress.com | Unlimited pages and posts, 1 GB of storage, and ads shown to visitors | The organisation | On a paid plan | Everyone |
| Free hosting, you bring the pages | ||||
| GitHub Pages | Hosting for static pages straight from a code repository | The organisation, with technical skills | Yes, a domain the organisation already owns | Everyone |
Fourteen of the fifteen services hand over a tool: the organisation writes the pages, follows the updates and watches security, month after month. One hands over a site already built and kept up to date.
Ten of the fifteen keep the organisation’s own domain name for a paid plan and otherwise publish on a provider subdomain. Three accept a domain the organisation already owns, and one builds on the organisation’s own.
Three of the fifteen ask for proof of nonprofit status: statutes, registration number, sometimes verification by a third party. The documents asked for look alike from one programme to the next, so they are prepared once and serve everywhere.
If someone in the organisation can give the site a few hours a month, a free offer open to everyone is enough to begin: look first at the domain name column, because that is what decides the address you give your donors. If those hours are not there, the programmes reserved for nonprofits carry the work. Either way, start by registering the organisation’s domain name: it follows you from one service to the next, and it is what search engines and AI assistants tie to your name.
The fifteen services here are the ones a nonprofit meets when looking for a free website, wherever it is based: twelve offers open to everyone, two programmes reserved for nonprofit organisations and one programme on application. The facts are read on each provider’s public pages and help centre on 6 September 2026, base offers, promotions ignored. A cell the provider does not publish reads "Not stated". The table carries no rating and no score, and its order follows the criterion stated above. These offers change: on the day you commit, the provider’s page is what counts.
The Simafri Foundation builds, hosts, secures and keeps up to date the websites of the nonprofit organisations it supports, on their own domain name. You carry your mission, we carry the technical side. The programme page sets out the conditions and how to apply.
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