Run FCRA-compliant national criminal checks on every coach, manager, and volunteer for $5 — with a free address-history check and biometric identity verification built in. Affordable enough to screen your whole league, every season.
Youth baseball and softball leagues depend almost entirely on volunteers — managers, coaches, board members, concession and field crews — many of whom work directly with children. National programs require an annual criminal background check that includes a nationwide sex-offender registry search for everyone with repetitive access to minors. Meeting that bar for an all-volunteer league can be expensive and slow with traditional vendors.
VolunteerBadge keeps it simple and cheap: $5 for a full national criminal check spanning county, state, and federal courts, sex-offender registries in all 50 states, FBI Most Wanted, and OFAC watchlists, plus a free address-history check on every application. No per-seat fees and no contracts, so a small league pays only for the checks it runs.
And because a clean name is not the same as a verified person, VolunteerBadge can confirm each volunteer with a government photo ID and a biometric liveness selfie — an extra layer of protection that name-only screening simply cannot provide.
Some states mandate criminal background checks for youth-league volunteers. Confirm what applies to your league before the season starts.
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.
Through VolunteerBadge, a full national criminal background check is $5 per volunteer, with free address-history checks and FCRA-compliant adverse-action notices included — and no per-seat or monthly fees on the pay-as-you-go plan.
Yes. Every $5 check searches sex-offender registries across all 50 states, alongside 650M+ county, state, and federal court records, FBI Most Wanted, and OFAC/global watchlists.
Most youth leagues require an annual background check for anyone with repetitive access to minors. VolunteerBadge's low per-check price and automated re-screening reminders (on Pro) make annual screening practical for an all-volunteer organization.
Yes. VolunteerBadge adds a government photo ID and biometric liveness selfie matched to the applicant, so you confirm the real person — not just a name and date of birth that anyone could supply.
Roughly 94% of background checks find no criminal record — which is why screening every volunteer should be affordable, and why confirming the person's real identity matters as much as the record search itself. The research and industry data below back that up.