Membership site · Nonprofits
Membership sites for nonprofits.
A membership site is a business you own: the content or community behind the login, the billing relationship, and the member list itself. We build membership platforms that handle tiers, recurring payments, gated content, and member profiles without a third-party platform taking a cut or setting the rules. Working remotely from our Providence, RI studio, we scope, prototype, and build for organizations across the US and Canada. A nonprofit website carries two jobs at once: it has to explain the mission to someone who has never heard of you, and it has to turn a moment of goodwill into a gift or a volunteer shift before that moment passes. We design around both, with the donate path never more than one tap away. For nonprofits, membership means supporter and donor programs: recurring giving levels with benefits, a members-only newsletter or event series, volunteer status and training records, and tax receipts generated automatically. Board and committee members get a private area for governance documents.
Quick answer
A membership site for nonprofits puts content, tools, or community behind a login with tiers, recurring billing, gated access, and renewals that run themselves, on a platform you own rather than rent. GEO Marketing Group builds custom membership platforms starting around $10,000, typically $18,000, working remotely from Providence, RI.
What it includes
What membership site builds include for nonprofits.
Membership tiers with recurring billing, trials, coupons, and upgrades through Stripe
Gated content: articles, videos, downloads, courses, or tools unlocked by tier
Member profiles and an optional searchable member directory
Events, RSVPs, and members-only registration with capacity limits
Automated onboarding, renewal reminders, and failed-payment recovery emails
Admin reporting on signups, cancellations, and revenue by tier, with CSV export
Connects to the tools nonprofits already use.
Membership site builds earn their keep when they stop double entry. These are the integrations we most often scope for nonprofits; if your stack is different, we map it in discovery.
Why nonprofits reach for this.
The donate button is hard to find
Supporters arriving from an email or a campaign link reach a homepage where giving is buried in a menu, and the impulse to help fades before they locate it.
The mission reads like a grant application
Program pages written for funders use language a first-time visitor cannot parse, so people leave without understanding who you serve or what changes because of you.
Every update waits on a developer
Board changes, event dates, and the annual report pile up because the old template cannot be edited by staff, and the site slowly falls out of date.
Membership site builds start from $10,000. Every project is quoted to its scope.
Concept design · Nonprofit / donation
See it for nonprofits: Brighter Days Foundation
A nonprofit with a hopeful design and a frictionless path to donate.
A concept design built to show our range for nonprofits, an illustrative business rather than a real client.
FAQ
Membership site builds for nonprofits: common questions.
Should I build a custom membership site or use a platform like Patreon or Kajabi?
How does recurring billing and renewal work?
Can I migrate existing members from another platform?
Ready to scope a membership site build for your nonprofit?
Describe the workflow in plain language: who uses it, what they need to see, and what should happen automatically. We come back with a scope, a realistic timeline, and a fixed quote.