An effective nonprofit website helps share your mission, connect with supporters, and increase donations. And for it…
…The right website builder gives you tools like donation forms, event calendars, and volunteer sign-ups, all without needing technical skills. Below, we rank the best website builders for nonprofits.
Overview
Website Builders Rankings
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Squarespace Overview (2:41)
Squarespace is the best all-around website builder with solid features for nonprofit websites.
You can see Squarespace as the Apple of website builders. It is intuitive and has polished features for nonprofits. Moreover, it has beautiful templates, is secure, and has a customizable drag-and-drop editor to meet most nonprofit websites’ design needs.
Key Features For Nonprofits
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Donation Blocks: Squarespace includes a built-in donation block that lets you accept one-time and/or recurring donations via Squarespace Payments, Stripe, or PayPal. You can customize the donation block and add it on any page, anywhere. Altenatively, you can embed a third-party donation box as well.
Squarespace's Donation block and customization settings.
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Nonprofit Website Templates: Squarespace has nonprofit-specific templates that are free, customizable, and mobile-friendly.
Squarespace's nonprofit templates
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Giving Pages: Squarespace also has pre-designed “Giving Pages” that you can add to your website.
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Structured Drag and Drop Editor: The Squarespace editor Fluid Engine lets you drag and drop blocks anywhere in a section. The blocks snap to an (adjustable) underlying grid. (See the video above for a demonstration)
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Event Pages & Calendar: You can promote upcoming events by adding an events page to the nonprofit website. Squarespace also has a calendar block that displays those events in calendar format.
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Ecommerce: Squarespace Commerce allows nonprofits to sell anything: branded merchandise, event tickets, educational material, courses, memberships, and more.
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Marketing Features: Squarespace offers a suite of marketing tools that nonprofits find helpful: forms for volunteer recruitment and email collection; integrated email campaigns to design and send professional emails that keep supporters updated on news and fundraising efforts; SEO tools to show up on search engines; blogging for sharing stories and news surrounding the NPO; social media integration to display content from your social profiles on the site and auto-share updates from the site on to socials; etc.
Pricing
Squarespace doesn’t have a free plan or discounts for nonprofits. However, it does offer a 14-day free trial, which is enough to test the platform and see if it meets your nonprofit design and features needs.
The Squarespace plans start at $16/month for the annual plan and go up to $99/month. Depending on your NPO website needs, any plan can work for you, but I’d suggest choosing the $23/month Core plan because it’s the cheapest plan with 0% transaction fees. Then, upgrade if needed.
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Wix Overview (3:27)
Wix is the most popular website builder by market share. Like Squarespace, it’s also general-purpose and has features for nonprofits.
The main difference between Wix and Squarespace, at least for nonprofit websites, is their page editors. While Squarespace has a structured and intuitive editor, Wix has a drag-and-drop unstructured editor that offers complete freedom. It allows you to move any element to any spot on a page. This allows for plenty of freedom but can be overwhelming, especially since Wix offers many design options and elements.
In a sense, if Squarespace is the Apple of website builders, Wix is the Android//PC equivalent.
Key Features For Nonprofits
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Donation Collection: Wix enables nonprofits to create dedicated donation forms and allows easy contributions through multiple payment options like PayPal and credit cards. You can’t edit the donation form much, but the standard form is simple and well-designed.
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Customizable Templates: Choose from a variety of mobile-responsive templates tailored for nonprofits that reflect their mission and branding.
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Design-Flexible Drag and Drop Editor: Wix’s unstructured editor lets you drag and drop elements anywhere you want on a page—without constraint. You can see a video explanation here. Almost no other website builder provides a drag-and-drop interface like this—every other website builder has constraints.
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Discounted Premium Plans: Eligible nonprofits can receive a 70% discount on a 2-year Wix Premium plan.
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Event Management: Nonprofits can manage events through their Wix site, including creating event pages, sending invitations, collecting RSVPs, and generating tickets.
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Ecommerce: You can sell pretty much anything for your Nonprofit on Wix.
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Marketing Features: Wix offers built-in SEO tools to enhance search visibility, newsletter sign-up forms to inform supporters about news and events, and social media integration for seamless content sharing and broader outreach. Additionally, marketing tools help manage campaigns and promote engagement.
Pricing
Wix offers a free plan with ads and no custom domain, so most organizations choose a paid plan.
The paid plans start at $17 monthly, but the base plan doesn’t have ecommerce (Squarespace’s base plan does). For basic ecommerce, you’ll have to choose the $29/month Core plan.
Nonprofits can receive a 70% discount on a 2-year Premium Plan with a free domain for the first year through TechSoup.
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Webflow Overview (2:47)
Webflow is the most customizable website builder. Whatever you imagine your nonprofit website to look like, you can probably make it with Webflow.
Just be aware: Webflow has a learning curve. So either you need to learn it (which can take days, weeks, or months depending on your technical experience) or hire a professional Webflow developer to make your website.
Key Features For Nonprofits
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Design Without Limits: Webflow is basically a user interface for HTML & CSS code. So if you can do something in HTML & CSS, you can do it in Webflow—which means Webflow offers far more customization options than any other website builder! This is great if you want your nonprofit website to be truly outstanding.
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Nonprofit Templates: You can find a variety of outstanding Webflow templates for Nonprofits.
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Nonprofit Discount: Webflow offers 50% off one site with Basic, CMS, or Business Site plans for the first year. Eligible organizations have to provide official documentation verifying their nonprofit status to qualify.
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Third-party Integration For Donations: Webflow doesn’t have an in-built donation feature like Wix or Squarespace. You’ll have to embed a donation form from a third-party platform like Donately.
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Content Management System (CMS): Webflow’s CMS enables nonprofits to manage dynamic content such as blogs, events, and success stories.
Pricing
Webflow has two types of plans:
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General: This includes a free plan and three plans on which you can get 50% for the first year: Basic (regularly $168/year; for nonprofits, $84/year for the first year), CMS (regularly $276/year; for nonprofits, $138/year for the first year), and Business (regularly $468/year; for nonprofits, $234/year for the first year). None of these plans include ecommerce.
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Ecommerce: Ecommerce plans start at $29/month (annually), but the beginner plan has a 2% transaction fee. For a 0% transaction fee, you’ll need to spend at least $74/month (billed annually). These plans do not get the nonprofit discount.
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Bonus: Shopify
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Shopify Overview (4:12)
Shopify is the best website builder for online stores—it tames the complexity of ecommerce and removes many of the obstacles online store builders face. I recommend it to nonprofits that generate/want to generate revenue through merchandise, event ticket sales, or fundraising campaigns.
Key Features For Nonprofits
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Nonprofit-Specific Plans: Shopify offers discounted pricing for registered charities through its NPO Lite ($29/month) and NPO Full ($99/month) plans.
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Donation Tools: Accept one-time and recurring donations using apps like Shop for Good, ShoppingGives, or Give & Grow. You can also treat donations as “products” for a simple workaround.
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Multi-Channel Selling: Sync your store with Instagram, Facebook, or in-person fundraising booths via Shopify POS – all integrated into one dashboard.
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Marketing Tools: Built-in email marketing, social sharing, discount codes, and abandoned cart recovery features help boost supporter engagement and revenue.
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App store: The Shopify app store has over 10,000 plugins from third-party developers that you can use to customize your store. This includes donation apps, marketing apps, designing apps, and more.
Pricing
Shopify offers discounted pricing for nonprofits through its NPO Lite ($29/month) and NPO Full ($99/month) plans. You’ll have to contact their customer support to get this pricing.
Here’s the latest on both plans (compared to regular Shopify plans) from Shopify Staff member:
The NPO Lite plan with an online store costs $29 per month.
The NPO Lite plan offers additional features that are not typically available on the Basic Plan. These features include:
- 1% transaction fee if using a third-party payment provider (instead of 2% on the Basic plan)
- Lower Shopify Payments credit card rates (Shopify plan rates instead of the Basic plan rates)
- Ability to accept donations through Shopify Payments if registered as a charity in the US or Canada
- Unlimited Staff Accounts (instead of 2, which is a Plus plan feature)
- Real-time Carrier Shipping (an Advanced plan feature)
The NPO Full Plan with an online store costs $99 per month.
The NPO Full plan is similar to the Shopify plan but comes with more robust features. These features include:
- 0% transaction fees if the merchant is using a third-party payment provider (instead of 1% on the Shopify plan, which is better than the Advanced Shopify plan feature)
- Lower Shopify Payments credit card rates than the Shopify Plan (Advanced Shopify rates)
- Unlimited Staff Accounts (instead of 5 on the Shopify plan, which is a Plus plan feature)
- Ability to accept donations through Shopify Payments if registered as a charity in the US or Canada
- Real-time Carrier Shipping (an Advanced plan feature)
What about Morweb?
Morweb is purpose-built for nonprofits — which means it comes with features like donation forms, event registration, volunteer sign-ups, and password-protected member areas built right in.
But the thing is, Morweb isn’t a website builder in the way our recommendations are. You can’t just sign up and start making your website. From what I understand, you collaborate with them to make the website, and then you have access to their “ridiculously easy CMS platform” to make changes (like adding blog posts.
Moreover, it’s expensive. The plans start at $149/month, but realistically, you’ll probably spend upwards of $199/month as they don’t give access to important features like fundraising module, form builder, events module, etc., on the base plan.
Best for: Mid-sized nonprofits that want a polished, functional site without hiring a developer.
What about WordPress?
WordPress is not a website builder— it’s a content management system (or CMS). Moreover, it has a steeper learning curve and can get complex without technical knowledge. It also requires ongoing maintenance and security updates.
That said, WordPress is the most flexible option — and powers many nonprofit websites, large and small. With the right theme and plugins (like GiveWP for donations, Elementor for page building, The Events Calendar for event management), you can build virtually anything you want.
Note that although WordPress CMS is free, you’ll likely spend more for the website than a typical website builder because you have to purchase hosting, plugins, themes, etc., separately.
Best for: Organizations with access to tech support or a web-savvy volunteer who can manage a more advanced setup.
