You should be eligible for the 50% non-profit discount and could maybe even get it for free as an open source project: https://blog.discourse.org/2016/03/free-d

You should be eligible for the 50% non-profit discount and could maybe even get it for free as an open source project: https://blog.discourse.org/2016/03/free-discourse-forum-hosting-for-community-friendly-github-projects/ https://blog.discourse.org/2016/03/free-discourse-forum-host... (you don't exactly meet the threshold criteria yet but look at the top comment on that post).