Protect your congregation and your children's ministry with FCRA-compliant background checks for $5, plus biometric identity verification that confirms every volunteer is who they say they are. Built for churches, ministries, and faith-based nonprofits.
Churches rely on volunteers for nursery, youth group, small groups, missions, and outreach — often working closely with children and vulnerable people. A background check is the baseline of a safe-ministry program, but two things have long made it harder than it should be: cost and certainty. Many providers charge $25–$80 per report, and a name-and-date-of-birth search alone never confirms the person in front of you is actually who they claim to be.
VolunteerBadge fixes both. Every volunteer can complete a full national criminal check — county, state, and federal courts, sex-offender registries across all 50 states, FBI Most Wanted, and OFAC watchlists — for $5. And before they're cleared, you can verify their real identity with a government photo ID and a biometric liveness selfie, matched to the identity on file. It's the difference between screening a name and screening a person.
Everything is FCRA-compliant, with adverse-action notices included, and a free address-history check on every application. Affordable enough to screen every serving volunteer, rigorous enough to protect the people in your care.
¹ Urban Institute (2017), analysis of 1.7 million employment background checks
Other platforms charge extra for these. We don't.
We search 650M+ court records across all jurisdictions — county, state, and federal courts, sex offender registries, FBI Most Wanted, OFAC sanctions, and global watchlists. If county records exist but can't be verified under FCRA guidelines, we tell you and refund your fee. No games.
Every volunteer application includes a free address history pull. We verify what they report against what we find. Gaps, inconsistencies, or addresses they "forgot" to mention get flagged before you spend a dime on a criminal check.
Go beyond name-and-date-of-birth. Verify each volunteer with a government-issued photo ID and a biometric liveness selfie, matched against the identity they provide — so you know the human behind the application is who they claim to be.
Fully documented REST API and webhook support. Plug VolunteerBadge into your CRM, volunteer management software, or AI tool of choice. One API key. 1 credit = 1 background check, however you access us.
VolunteerBadge is the only volunteer screening platform that ties a real, verified identity to every application: a biometric face match against a government photo ID, then triangulated against the SSN trace and address history behind the check. A borrowed clean identity can't get through.
Biometric facial match
A live liveness selfie — proof a real person is present, not a photo.
Government photo ID
The selfie is matched face-to-face against their official ID document.
SSN + address triangulation
Identity cross-checked against the SSN trace and address history on the report.
Enterprise-grade verification at a nonprofit price. The same rigor banks use — built into every $5 check.
Application to cleared volunteer in three steps.
Create a digital volunteer application with built-in FCRA authorization. Send a link or embed it on your site.
A free address-history check and biometric ID verification confirm the applicant before you spend a dollar.
A full national criminal check returns an FCRA-compliant report — with adverse-action notices if needed.
Pay per check for screening. Subscribe to run your whole volunteer program.
Buy credits one at a time. No commitment, no expiry.
Save 20% vs single-check pricing. Credits never expire.
Unlimited admin users, flat. Checks billed separately at $5.
Every check follows an FCRA-compliant process, with applicant authorization captured up front and adverse-action notices generated for you when a record is found. The guardrails that protect your volunteers and your organization are included — not sold separately.
Create a free account in minutes. No contracts, no monthly minimums, no sales call. Just $5 per check when you're ready.
A full national criminal background check is $5 per volunteer through VolunteerBadge, with free address-history checks and FCRA-compliant adverse-action notices included. There are no monthly fees on the pay-as-you-go plan.
It searches 650M+ court records across county, state, and federal courts, plus sex-offender registries in all 50 states, FBI Most Wanted, OFAC sanctions, and global watchlists — the coverage a children's and youth ministry needs.
Yes. VolunteerBadge can confirm each volunteer's identity with a government-issued photo ID and a biometric liveness selfie, matched to the identity they provide — so you know the person serving is who they say they are.
Yes. The combination of a national criminal check, all-50-state sex-offender registry search, and biometric identity verification is well suited to safe-ministry and youth-protection programs. Always pair screening with your church's broader child-protection policies.