Summary
Goodstack (formerly Percent) is a global API-based nonprofit verification platform that vendors use to confirm charitable status in real time. It has largely consolidated the second-tier nonprofit validation market (Asana, monday.com, Zoom, Atlassian, SurveyMonkey, Typeform and others route their eligibility checks through Goodstack), and is the principal alternative to TechSoup for vendors that prefer an API integration over a manual token workflow.
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Goodstack verifies nonprofit status against the registered regulator in the organisation’s country — IRS Pub 78 data for the US, Charity Commission for England & Wales, country-equivalents elsewhere — and exposes the result via an API that vendors query at onboarding [source: goodstack]. The service is free to the nonprofit; the cost is borne by the vendor partner. Eligibility is reviewed asynchronously, typically within ~3 days for a new registration, with re-validation annually [source: goodstack].
Goodstack’s own criteria focus on legal recognition as a nonprofit, not on the primary-purpose test TechSoup applies [source: goodstack]. The political/advocacy filter is therefore inherited from each vendor’s own program rules rather than enforced at the verification layer. For an advocacy NGO, this means a Goodstack-validated org can buy the same product through Goodstack that a TechSoup-validated org would be excluded from — if the vendor’s own program allows it. Vendors that route through Goodstack (Asana, monday.com, Atlassian, Zoom) typically apply their own political-org exclusion as a separate check [source: goodstack].
For the campaigner, the practical distinction is: Goodstack is faster (API/real-time) and slightly more permissive at the verification step; TechSoup is the stricter primary-purpose gatekeeper that vendors defer to. When a vendor’s own terms say “recognised charitable organisation”, Goodstack is usually the validation channel that quietly makes that check happen.
Use it for
Validating your nonprofit status once and having the verification accepted across the Goodstack-powered vendor catalogue (Asana, monday.com, Atlassian, Zoom, SurveyMonkey, Typeform and others); understanding which vendors trust Goodstack vs TechSoup validation before applying to a discount program.