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GitHub for Nonprofits

Summary

GitHub for Nonprofits provides a free GitHub Team plan OR 25% off GitHub Enterprise Cloud for eligible nonprofits. The program’s eligibility is explicitly restricted: GitHub requires applicants to be non-governmental, non-academic, non-commercial, and non-political organisations — making political/advocacy organisations ineligible for the program.

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https://github.com/solutions/industry/nonprofits

GitHub’s nonprofit program offers eligible nonprofits either a free GitHub Team plan (unlimited private repositories and users, the standard software-development team tier) or 25% off GitHub Enterprise Cloud (the enterprise tier with advanced security, compliance, and admin features) [source: github-nonprofits].

Eligibility is explicitly restricted to organisations that are non-governmental, non-academic, non-commercial, and non-political [source: github-nonprofits]. The “non-political” exclusion is hard — political organisations, lobbying organisations, and 501(c)(4) social-welfare groups are not eligible, and the program is described in GitHub’s eligibility language as “verified nonprofit, non-political” [source: github-nonprofits].

For a 501(c)(3) non-partisan nonprofit with a software-development team, GitHub Team free is one of the strongest offers in the entire procurement stack — unlimited private repositories, unlimited users, no charge. For a political/advocacy org, GitHub for Nonprofits is unavailable; the standard GitHub Team paid tier (or GitLab’s separate nonprofit program) is the alternative.

Use it for

Securing free GitHub Team (unlimited private repos and users) for a verified 501(c)(3) non-political nonprofit’s software-development workflow; understanding that political and advocacy organisations are explicitly excluded from the program — GitLab’s separate nonprofit program is the alternative path for those organisations.

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Last verified: 2026-07-02