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Nonprofit Website Budget Planner

Already have a number? Enter your total website budget and project characteristics to see how it should realistically split across strategy, design, development, content, SEO, accessibility, migration, integrations, and more.

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We'll pressure-test this allocation against your actual scope.

A planning allocation is a starting point. Discovery is where it gets tested against your real content, integrations, and timeline.

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Not the same as the cost calculator

Two different questions, two different tools.

We built these as separate tools on purpose — estimating a budget and allocating a fixed budget are genuinely different planning problems.

Illustration of a gauge, pipeline, and growth icons representing budget allocation across project stages

Cost calculator: "what might this cost?"

Use it before you have a number — it builds a range from your scope so you can go into budget conversations informed.

Budget planner: "we have $X, now what?"

Use it once a number exists — a board approval, a grant, a fixed line item — and you need to know how to split it responsibly.

Both feed the same next step

Either way, the output is a realistic starting point for an RFP or a vendor conversation, not a final number.

Methodology

Every shift in the split has a stated reason.

Every category starts from a typical baseline split seen across nonprofit website projects.
Your answers about migration, integrations, accessibility, design, content, and language shift specific categories up or down — the shifts always net back to 100% of your budget.
If your total is tight for the scope you described, the tool tells you what to defer instead of quietly underfunding everything a little.
A contingency reserve is always included and adjusts with project risk — cutting it to zero is rarely a good idea.