Charity WordPress Theme

A Nonprofit WordPress Theme Built to Raise Money Online

Charity is a nonprofit WordPress theme by WPlook for charities, foundations, churches and NGOs that raise money online. If your donations run through a third-party form that sends people away from your site, Charity keeps giving on your own pages. It accepts Stripe and PayPal donations, including recurring weekly and monthly gifts, and includes 9 content types for causes, projects, events, staff, sermons and documents. Charity costs $99 a year, or $15 a month with WPL Hosting and setup included. Version 7.2 is compatible with WordPress 7.1 and was last updated in September 2026.

Charity was built from day one for nonprofit organizations that need to collect donations, showcase their impact, and build lasting relationships with supporters. You don’t need a separate donation plugin or a long setup. With Stripe and credit card integration alongside PayPal, your donors can give using whatever payment method they prefer. With recurring donation support, you can turn one-time gifts into steady monthly income. The theme scores A93+ on speed tests and is fully responsive across all devices.

Smart Features

What’s built into Charity:

Raise More Money with Built-in Donation Tools

In Charity, fundraising is the core of the theme, not an add-on. Every cause you create gets its own dedicated page with a donation button, a fundraising goal, and a progress bar that updates automatically after each successful payment. Your supporters see exactly how close you are to your target, which creates urgency and social proof that drives more donations. You can also enter offline donations manually, so your progress bar always reflects the full picture.

The built-in Dashboard Widget gives your team a bird’s-eye view of every donation from the WordPress admin. See performance by individual cause, compare all campaigns side by side, or drill into your top-performing fundraisers. You don’t need a third-party analytics tool, because real-time donation tracking is built into your WordPress dashboard. When your board asks “how are we doing this quarter?” you will have the answer in seconds.

Recurring Donations That Build Sustainable Revenue

One-time donations keep the lights on. Recurring donations build a future. The Charity WordPress theme lets your supporters choose between one-time, weekly, or monthly giving. A single gift can become predictable income your organization can plan around. For nonprofits and NGOs, recurring donations are the difference between surviving month to month and building programs that create lasting impact. And with both Stripe (credit card) and PayPal integrated out of the box, your donors can give using whatever payment method they prefer.

The setup takes minutes, not hours. Configure your donation amounts, enable recurring options, and connect your Stripe or PayPal account. That is it. You don’t install a third-party donation plugin or fight with payment gateway settings, and no middleman platform takes a monthly cut of every gift. More of each dollar reaches your work because your charity WordPress theme handles donations itself.

Showcase Your Projects and Prove Your Impact

Donors give to organizations they trust, and trust comes from transparency. The Charity theme’s Projects custom post type lets you present active and completed initiatives in a professional grid or list layout. Each project gets its own page with photos, descriptions, start and end dates, status updates, and links to related events. When a potential donor lands on your website, they see the work you have finished, not only promises.

Filter projects by status so visitors can see what you are working on right now and what you have already accomplished. Link projects to their related causes so donors can connect the dots between their gift and the work it funds. Being this open helps first-time visitors become repeat supporters, and keeping it current in the Charity theme takes no technical skills.

Put Real Faces Behind Your Mission

People donate to people, not logos. The Charity WordPress theme includes a Staff custom post type that lets you create profiles for everyone in your organization, from your executive director and board members to field workers and volunteers. Add photos, bios, job titles, email addresses, phone numbers, social media links, and blog URLs. Organize your team into categories like Executive Staff, Board Members, and Volunteers to keep your pages clean and navigable.

A good team page also builds trust. When donors can see the people behind the mission, they feel more connected to your cause and more confident that their money is in good hands. The Charity theme makes it easy to keep your team profiles current as your organization grows.

Publish Documents That Build Credibility

Donors and grant makers want to see your numbers. The Charity theme’s Documents custom post type lets you publish annual reports, financial statements, newsletters, brochures, and impact reports in downloadable formats: PDFs, eBooks, and ZIP files. When a major donor or grant committee wants to see your numbers, everything is right there on your website, organized and professional.

Your visitors can download and share these documents across their networks, extending your reach far beyond your website. A year-end impact report can help you land a major gift, and a quarterly newsletter keeps your community up to date. The document library keeps both in one place on your site.

Sell Products with WooCommerce Integration

Plenty of nonprofits earn money beyond donations. The Charity WordPress theme works with WooCommerce so you can sell branded merchandise, event tickets, digital downloads, or any product that supports your mission. T-shirts, tote bags, books and artwork bring in money for your cause and spread the word about it at the same time.

WooCommerce handles payments, shipping, inventory management, and customer analytics so you can see which products sell. Combined with Stripe and PayPal donation integration, the Charity theme gives your nonprofit three revenue streams (donations, recurring giving, and product sales) from a single WordPress website.

WordPress Customizer for Complete Control

The Charity WordPress theme puts your team in full control through the WordPress Customizer with live preview. Change your brand colors, upload your logo, configure page layouts, and fine-tune every visual detail without writing a single line of code. The Customizer works alongside Gutenberg metaboxes so anyone on your team can learn it in minutes, from your marketing director to the volunteer who has never edited a website.

With 9 Custom Post Types, unlimited widget areas, and full Gutenberg support, the Charity theme gives you room to set the site up your way. It works for a local food bank with 5 team members and for an international relief organization managing hundreds of causes across multiple countries.

What to Look for in a Nonprofit WordPress Theme

Most nonprofit websites have the same jobs: take donations, show where the money goes, promote events and keep supporters informed. Before you choose a nonprofit WordPress theme, check that it handles these without a stack of extra plugins. Here’s how Charity covers each one.

• Online donations: Stripe and PayPal are built in, so supporters can give by card or PayPal without leaving your site.
• Recurring giving: weekly and monthly donations work without a subscription plugin.
• Proof of impact: progress bars, project pages and published documents show donors where their money goes.
• Events and community: fundraisers, galleries and staff profiles each have their own section.
• Mobile visitors: many donors arrive on a phone. Charity is fully responsive and scores A93+ on speed tests.
• Room to grow: WooCommerce for merchandise, multilingual support and a child theme for safe changes.

Still comparing? Our roundup of the best nonprofit WordPress themes covers more options, and our guide to building a nonprofit website walks through every step from domain to donate button.

WPlook Nonprofit WordPress Themes Compared

Choose Charity if card payments and monthly donors matter most. If PayPal is enough, Charity Life is a fundraising WordPress theme with its own design. Running a church? Benevolence is our church WordPress theme. Want all five premium themes? The Nonprofit WordPress Themes Package includes them together.

Who Is the Charity WordPress Theme For?

The Charity WordPress theme fits organizations that raise a real share of their budget online and want donors to give on their own website. It’s a good match for:

• Nonprofit Organizations: take Stripe and PayPal donations, follow each campaign in the dashboard widget, and run your causes, events and staff pages from WordPress
• Charitable Foundations: publish project pages, annual reports and progress bars, so grant committees and major donors can see where the money goes
• Churches and Religious Organizations: post sermons and events, list your staff, and let members set up weekly or monthly giving for online tithing
• NGOs and International Organizations: translate the site, take gifts through Stripe and PayPal, and show your projects in every country you work in
• Political Campaigns and Advocacy Groups: collect contributions, list your volunteers, publish position papers, and keep supporters up to date on your cause

Why Choose the Charity WordPress Theme?

You could spend months piecing together a nonprofit website from a generic theme and a dozen plugins. Or you could install Charity and have a working fundraising site in under 3 minutes. Here’s what’s included: Stripe AND PayPal built in, recurring donations without a subscription plugin, automatic progress bars, a donation dashboard widget, 9 Custom Post Types for causes, projects, events, staff and more, and an A93+ speed grade so donors don’t leave while a page loads.

The theme is actively maintained (last updated September 2026), fully compatible with WordPress 7.1 and PHP 8.0 to 8.5, GDPR compliant, and backed by professional support from the WPlook team. If you’re launching a new nonprofit website, or replacing an old one that’s costing you donations, the Charity WordPress theme gives you the donation, reporting and content tools without the cost of a custom build.