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What your Microsoft plan does not cover.
Microsoft’s nonprofit licensing changed, and a lot of organizations are running on a plan that no longer includes the security capabilities they assume it does. Pick your plan and see the gap.
What Microsoft plan does your organization have now?
$1.50 per user per month more than the Intune add-on buys the whole security stack.
WHAT YOU HAVE
Web and mobile versions of the Microsoft 365 apps, Copilot Chat, essential security features, and 1TB of storage.
WHAT YOU DO NOT HAVE
Centralized device management and enrollment
The ability to enforce device compliance policy
The ability to wipe a lost or stolen device
Endpoint threat detection and response
Advanced email threat protection beyond the baseline
WHAT IT COSTS TO CLOSE
Microsoft 365 Intune
$4.00 per user per month
Device management alone, without the Defender endpoint and email protection that Business Premium includes in the base SKU.
Microsoft 365 Business Premium
$5.50 per user per month
Device management through Intune, endpoint threat protection through Defender for Business, and email threat protection through Defender for Office 365 Plan 1.
The Office 365 E1 grant ended on 1 July 2025. Organizations holding those licenses lose them at their next renewal date.
Our published research does not cover Business Standard.
Check in the Microsoft 365 admin center under Billing, then Your products.
Microsoft list prices for nonprofit offers, verified September 2026. Grant and discount eligibility varies by organization. This is a plan comparison, not an assessment of your tenant.
What this tells you, and what it does not
This compares Microsoft’s published plan contents. It tells you which security capabilities your plan tier includes and which it does not, and what the add-ons cost at list price.
It cannot tell you whether the capabilities you do have are configured, which is the more common problem. A plan that includes Defender for Business does nothing if nobody turned it on, and a tenant with the right licenses and no conditional access is not protected by them.
Every figure here comes from Microsoft’s own nonprofit offers pricing, read in September 2026, and from our published research on the licensing change. Both are linked below. Pricing moves, so check the date.