Nonprofits and churches carry enterprise-grade responsibilities — donor payment data, member records, payroll, multi-site operations — on budgets a fraction of enterprise size. The technology has to work on Sunday morning and on gala night, and nobody on staff has time to be the IT department. Braintek supports nonprofit organizations and churches across Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth with exactly that mix in mind.
The Microsoft 365 nonprofit grant most organizations never claim
Microsoft gives qualifying 501(c)(3) organizations free Microsoft 365 Business Premium licensing (up to 10 seats) and deep discounts beyond that — email, Teams, SharePoint, and enterprise-grade security included. In our experience, most Houston nonprofits either don’t know the grant exists or got partway through the eligibility process and gave up. We take that over: verify eligibility, secure the grant, migrate your email and files, and manage the environment as part of managed IT. For many organizations the licensing savings meaningfully offset the cost of support.
Donor data is customer data — treat it that way
A donor database is a list of names, addresses, giving history, and payment methods. A breach doesn’t just cost cleanup money; it costs the trust your organization runs on. We put the same cybersecurity controls around a ministry that we put around a business — MFA everywhere, managed endpoint protection, email filtering that catches giving-platform phishing, and immutable, tested backups so a ransomware event means restoring, not paying.
Built for how ministries and nonprofits actually operate
Staff, volunteers, part-timers, and board members all touch your systems, from the office, from home, and from a second campus. We manage that reality: role-based access that survives volunteer turnover, support for worship and AV workstations, connectivity between campuses and program sites, and a helpdesk anyone you authorize can call. When hands-on help is needed, we dispatch across the Houston metro from our Spring headquarters, with a DFW-based engineer covering Dallas-Fort Worth organizations.
What does this cost a mission-driven budget?
Flat and predictable: $150 to $250 per device per month plus $15 to $35 per mailbox, with nonprofit environments typically at the lower end. Details on our pricing page. No hourly meters, no per-ticket fees — your team calls when something is wrong, and the board sees the same IT line item every month.
If your organization is running on a patchwork of donated equipment, a volunteer’s goodwill, and hope, a short conversation will show you what stable looks like.