Box for Nonprofits

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Box for Nonprofits — donated Starter (10 perpetual licences) Storage

fails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-cap

www.box.org/use-box/nonprofit · cloud-drive · storage/box-for-nonprofits-donated-starter · JSON · compare

Free tier	Box Starter, free for nonprofits via TechSoup validation: 'Secure file collaboration, storage and native e-signatures for up to 10 users \| 100 GB of storage \| 2 GB file upload'. TechSoup confirms 'donations of up to 10 perpetual licenses for Box Starter Edition'. 100 GB shared per org. unit GB; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	2 GB per upload (2000000000 bytes)
Retention	not stated
Egress	No egress meter on Box downloads documented on the nonprofit page.
Identity	institution derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: GB free. per-object-cap 2 GB per upload. request-rate: Box API per-app throttling. retention: 'perpetual licenses' — no expiry, which is unusual and worth noting. cloud-drive
Limits	per-object-cap 2 GB per upload source per-object-cap 2 GB per upload. request-rate: Box API per-app throttling. retention: 'perpetual licenses' — no expiry, which is unusual and worth noting.
Binding	per-object-cap the per-object cap sets the shard size and therefore the object count; it bounds the total more tightly than any headline quota
Interface	rest, rclone rest
Tooling	rclone backend 'box' (Tier 1, server-side copy); Box Content API.
Composes with	100 GB x one nonprofit org, with 10 perpetual seats sharing that 100 GB — not 100 GB per seat. Paid Business/Enterprise are 50% off, which is a discount not a grant, so this does not reach 500 GB free.
Reliability	Stable and perpetual, but 100 GB aggregate is an order of magnitude below the bar. Only interesting as an egress-free front for a small hot set.
Notes	Box Starter, free for nonprofits via TechSoup validation: 'Secure file collaboration, storage and native e-signatures for up to 10 users \| 100 GB of storage \| 2 GB file upload'. TechSoup confirms 'donations of up to 10 perpetual licenses for Box Starter Edition'. 100 GB shared per org.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[0].value` limit:per-object-cap 2.0 GB

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	www.box.org/use-box/nonprofit	'Starter ... up to 10 users \| 100 GB of storage \| 2 GB file upload ... Free'
2026-10-21	www.techsoup.org/box	'donations of up to 10 perpetual licenses for Box Starter Edition or ... 50 percent discount'
2026-10-21	withheld	probe: GET www.box.org/use-box/nonprofit -> 403 on first attempt but full plan table extracted; GET www.techsoup.org/box -> 200

More fields (1)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "Box Starter, free for nonprofits via TechSoup validation: 'Secure file collaboration, storage and native e-signatures for up to 10 users | 100 GB of storage | 2 GB file upload'. TechSoup confirms 'donations of up to 10 perpetual licenses for Box Starter Edition'. 100 GB shared per org.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (6)

$.evidence[2].url private-url
$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted
$.retention.stated not-extracted