Verdict
idealist.org appears legitimate.
Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.
| What this site appears to be | Idealist is an established nonprofit platform connecting people with volunteer opportunities, social-impact jobs, internships, events, and organizations. It also provides career resources and paid or partner services for nonprofits and employers. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.
At a glance
The checks that decide most of this verdict.
| Malware engines | None flagged itVirusTotal | Clear |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 9 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 30 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR1 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- VirusTotal and Google Safe Browsing had no flags for this domain; its hosting IP carries AbuseIPDB reports below the confidence level TrustSniffer treats as a flag.
- The operator behind the site could not be independently connected to a real-world brand or person.
Full analysis
Overview
Idealist is an established nonprofit platform connecting visitors with volunteering, nonprofit jobs, internships, events, organizations, and social-impact career resources, while supporting organizational listings, recruiting services, partnerships, and donations.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The site's coherent nonprofit marketplace presentation, clean page-level assessment, absence of phishing or brand-impersonation indicators, and established domain history support a legitimate identity rather than an impersonation or scam profile. Normal account login and standard platform interaction are appropriate.
- The homepage presents a coherent nonprofit mission, service structure, search functionality, and standard signup workflow.
- Page analysis recorded no red flags, phishing indicators, suspicious forms, or suspected brand impersonation.
- The domain was registered in 1996 and is 29.96 years old.
- Reputation checks recorded 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site presents a nonprofit employment, volunteering, and community marketplace rather than a financial service requiring the licensing disclosures applicable to regulated financial platforms. No licensing claim or registration number is shown in the supplied site content; this is a limited transparency point for institutional due diligence, not evidence of deception. The operating identity and business model are otherwise presented consistently.
- The homepage describes organizational listings, recruitment services, community opportunities, and employer resources.
- No license authority or license number is stated in the supplied page content.
- The site is hosted on AS54113 (FASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US).
- TLS is issued by YR1 at DV validation level and is valid to 2026-09-17.
What to Verify Next
For formal partnership or procurement, confirm the contracting entity and applicable nonprofit status through independently sourced records. Before account creation, review the site's current privacy, account, and data-use terms; standard use and login remain appropriate.
- The homepage provides a public signup workflow.
- The platform exposes organizational and employer-facing functions relevant to institutional engagement.
Summary Verdict
Idealist presents as a legitimate, established, high-trust nonprofit platform with a coherent purpose, clean reputation, and no observed scam or impersonation contradictions. Its overall posture supports normal interaction and standard account use.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is delivered through Fastly’s edge-hosting infrastructure, providing a conventional protective delivery layer. This is a mitigating infrastructure signal only and does not independently establish legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Prospective users and institutions may proceed with normal platform interaction, applying ordinary account-security and procurement controls appropriate to the sensitivity of the engagement.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-02 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
Identity verification
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 50% |
- No on-site identity signals detected
Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence.
What TrustSniffer observed
First-party facts recorded during the assessment of idealist.org.
- The request stayed on idealist.org. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Gandi SAS. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by dnsmadeeasy.com, across 6 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-08-21. Noted
- It is hosted on FASTLY, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Gandi SAS |
|---|---|
| Hosting | FASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 151.101.2.49 |
| Name servers | ns10.dnsmadeeasy.com, ns11.dnsmadeeasy.com, ns12.dnsmadeeasy.com, ns13.dnsmadeeasy.com, ns14.dnsmadeeasy.com, ns15.dnsmadeeasy.com |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-17 |
| Domain age | 30.0 years |
| Domain expiry | 2027-08-21 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | 0 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 9 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about idealist.org at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present.
TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. A site can change after it is assessed.