Screen every coach, assistant, team parent, and volunteer with a full FCRA-compliant national criminal check for $5 — plus biometric identity verification that confirms the adult on the field is who they claim to be. Built for leagues, clubs, and youth athletic programs.
Background checks for youth coaches and volunteers are now standard practice — and increasingly required by state law and national governing bodies like Little League, USA Lacrosse, and US Youth Soccer. The challenge for most leagues is volume and budget: you may need to screen dozens of coaches and team parents every season, and traditional providers charge $20–$40 a head. At that price, programs cut corners and screen only head coaches.
VolunteerBadge makes it affordable to screen everyone. A full national criminal check — county, state, and federal courts, sex-offender registries in all 50 states, FBI Most Wanted, and OFAC watchlists — is $5, with a free address-history check on every application. Because it is pay-as-you-go with no per-seat fees, you only pay for the checks you actually run, season to season.
Just as important for youth safety: VolunteerBadge verifies the real human, not just a name. A name-and-date-of-birth search can be passed using a borrowed clean identity. Pairing the criminal check with a government photo ID and a biometric liveness selfie closes that gap — exactly what a youth-protection policy should require.
Background-check rules for youth-serving organizations vary by state. See what your state requires for coaches and volunteers before your next season.
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 coach or volunteer through VolunteerBadge, with free address-history checks and FCRA-compliant adverse-action notices included. There are no per-seat fees, so you can afford to screen every coach, assistant, and team parent.
It searches 650M+ court records across county, state, and federal courts, plus sex-offender registries in all 50 states, FBI Most Wanted, and OFAC/global watchlists — the coverage a youth-protection program needs, returned in an FCRA-compliant report.
Yes. A name-and-date-of-birth check alone cannot confirm the adult is who they claim to be. VolunteerBadge adds a government photo ID plus a biometric liveness selfie, matched to the applicant — so a borrowed clean identity cannot pass. We recommend writing identity verification into your youth-protection policy.
A written policy is best practice and often required by leagues, insurers, and state law. It should define who must be screened, how often, what the check covers, and how identity is verified. VolunteerBadge gives you a consistent, documented screening process you can reference in that policy.
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How screening fits a broader youth-safety risk program.
What a national criminal check does and does not surface.
The data on clear rates and why most checks cost too much.
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.