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Put Cloudflare in front and it is fully covered.","metered":false},"interface":["rest","graph","rclone"],"interface_detail":"rest","tooling":"rclone backend 'onedrive' (Tier 1, chunked upload, server-side move); Microsoft Graph API (/me/drive, /sites/{id}/drive); SharePoint REST. The Graph endpoints are the documented programmatic path.","chaining":"The multiplier here is seats, not orgs: 300 granted seats per nonprofit tenant, 1 TB each, plus 10 GB of SharePoint pool per licence with a 25 TB ceiling per site collection — so a single tenant can present 300 TB of OneDrive *and* multi-TB SharePoint document libraries. 300 seats at 1 TB is the largest free number found anywhere in this niche. Multiple 501(c)(3) entities = separate tenants.","limits":[{"kind":"per-object-cap","value":"250 GB per file","source":"https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/business/nonprofit-plans-and-pricing"}],"limits_note":"per-object-cap 250 GB per file in OneDrive (Microsoft's documented ceiling), 100 GB mailbox, SharePoint list/library max 30 million items. request-rate: Graph throttling is per-app-per-tenant and is the practical ceiling for bulk sync, not bytes. retention: perpetual while the subscription renews; Microsoft requires '85% active usage of all granted assigned licenses' or the org risks losing future grants.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: r file in OneDrive (Microsoft's documented ceiling), 100 GB mailbox, SharePoint list/library max 30 million items. request-rate: Graph throttling is per-app-per-tenant and is the practica","country":null},"reliability_note":"The grant survived the July 2025 cull that killed *donated* Business Premium and O365 E1 — Business Basic is still listed as 'Grant, Free up to 300 users'. Unused seats are reclaimed under the 85% rule; inactive tenants risk losing grants at renewal.","confidence":"reported","confidence_note":"One page read moves it to documented.","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/business/nonprofit-plans-and-pricing","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'Microsoft 365 Business Basic (Nonprofit Staff Pricing) | Grant | Free up to 300 users' and '1 TB of cloud storage per user' across the compare table"},{"url":"https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/sharepoint-online-service-description/sharepoint-online-limits","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'Total storage per organization: 1 TB + 10GB per license purchased'; 'Max storage per site (site collection): 25 TB'"},{"url":"https://support.techsoup.org/hc/en-us/articles/37040124982811-Discontinued-Donated-Microsoft-365-Business-Premium-and-Office-365-E1","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"donated Business Premium/E1 discontinued from 2025-07-01; Business Basic grant unaffected"},{"url":null,"date":"2026-10-21","proved":"probe: GET graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/drive -> 401, 237 bytes (read path is Graph, auth-gated)"}],"verdict":"qualifies","verified_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"Microsoft 365 Business Basic (Nonprofit Staff Pricing) is a 'Grant — Free up to 300 users', and every seat carries '1 TB of cloud storage per user' (OneDrive). 300 x 1 TB = 300 TB of pooled tenant storage at zero cost. 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