What nonprofits actually budget for a website

Published guidance says $60,000 to $150,000. That number comes from agencies who bill it. Here is what the range looks like from the other side of 110 projects.

July 28, 2026

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The opening paragraph carries the argument in one or two sentences, so a reader who stops here still leaves with the point.

Body copy runs at a reading measure with a live margin to its left and a rail to its right, so emphasis has somewhere to go other than down the middle of the page. These paragraphs exist to show rhythm rather than to say anything.

01Section marker

A section heading, sized to sit under the title

Headings break a long piece into passages a reader can navigate, and give assistants a structural signal about what the article covers.

00% a figure worth carrying away, set inside the sentence it belongs to rather than stacked as a tile.

Source, with a date

A paragraph beside the rail shows how the two columns sit together at reading width.

A pull quote spans the margin and the rail, and is the one dark interruption in the body.
Attribution, role
02Second marker

A second section

  1. A numbered step, written as one sentence so it does not read as a bold label followed by an explanation.
  2. The numeral hangs outside the measure, in the margin, rather than sitting in a bulleted column.
  3. Steps earn the format when the items are genuinely sequential. When they are not, prose is the honest choice.

The paragraph after a list closes the thought rather than opening a new one.

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