Microsoft 365 Business Basic — nonprofit grant (300 free seats x 1 TB OneDrive)
- Free allowance
- 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).
- Verdict
- ★ qualifiesusable as stated; the read path was probed
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- per-object-cap250 GB per file
- Evidence
- reported4 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | 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. SharePoint on top: total org storage '1 TB + 10GB per license purchased', max 25 TB per site collection. unit TB; metered on stored-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
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. |
| 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 |
| Identity | email not published |
| Egress | No egress meter on OneDrive/SharePoint downloads — Microsoft does not bill data transfer out for M365 storage. Put Cloudflare in front and it is fully covered. |
| Per-object cap | 250 GB per file (250000000000 bytes) |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | rest, graph, rclone 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. |
| Composes with | 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. |
| Reliability | 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. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 4
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/business/nonprofit-pla | '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 |
| 2026-10-21 | learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/shar | 'Total storage per organization: 1 TB + 10GB per license purchased'; 'Max storage per site (site collection): 25 TB' |
| 2026-10-21 | support.techsoup.org/hc/en-us/articles/37040124982811-Discon | donated Business Premium/E1 discontinued from 2025-07-01; Business Basic grant unaffected |
| 2026-10-21 | source not published | probe: GET graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/drive -> 401, 237 bytes (read path is Graph, auth-gated) |
Unknown values 4
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