No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is khanacademy.org legit or a scam?
Official site of a 20-year-old nonprofit educational platform with verified registration and clean security record.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The domain khanacademy.org belongs to Khan Academy Inc, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit active since 2008. Our antivirus network returned zero flags and the hosting IP shows no abuse history. The page renders as a standard donation and learning interface with no login harvesting or scam elements. Evidence from multiple review outlets confirms legitimate operations and educational content. The combination of age, registration, and clean technical signals supports full trust.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
No scam visual patterns detected
This is a fully rendered, legitimate Khan Academy donation page with professional design and no scam indicators visible.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for khanacademy.org, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain khanacademy.org operated by Khan Academy Inc, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California
- IRS tax-exempt status since May 2008 (EIN 26-1544963); supported by donations and grants
- Trustpilot profile shows approximately 145 reviews with average score around 2.7-2.8/5, mixed user feedback on platform usability
- Positive coverage from PCMag (Editors' Choice 5.0), Common Sense Media, and multiple Reddit discussions praising free educational content
- No evidence of the domain being involved in scams; site itself hosts educational units on recognizing scams and fraud
- Domain age exceeds 20 years (7388 days as provided); no typosquat or clone indicators identified in searches
- Redditopen
"Neither is Khan Academy a "fraud " nor are they putting out any test papers of their own - these tests are all supplied by College Board and practice tests 5-10 ..."
- PCMagopen
"It's one of the best online learning services , particularly for math, science, social studies, and language arts. Its many lessons contain ..."
- Trustpilotopen
"Many users find the platform to be a good learning tool, appreciating the clear explanations and accessible lessons, especially for visual and auditory learners."
- Common Sense Mediaopen
"Excellent tutorials on math, humanities, and more , for free."
Khan Academy Inc, 501(c)(3) nonprofit, Mountain View CA, tax-exempt since May 2008, EIN 26-1544963
Our research located one Reddit discussion clarifying that Khan Academy is not a fraud. Three positive reviews from PCMag, independent review aggregator, and Common Sense Media highlight its value as a free learning tool. Business records confirm Khan Academy Inc operates as an active 501(c)(3) nonprofit in California with tax-exempt status since 2008. Five complaints were noted but no scam reports tied to the domain itself.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1308http://khanacademy.org/
- 2200https://www.khanacademy.org/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
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Confirm you are actually on khanacademy.org and not a lookalike like k-hanacademy.org.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
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Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on khanacademy.org. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- khanacademy.org passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 92/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. khanacademy.org presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M01, expiring in 187 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- khanacademy.org is 20.2 years old, registered on 3/14/2006 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 91 antivirus engines in our malware network report khanacademy.org as clean.
- No. khanacademy.org is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- khanacademy.org resolves to an IP operated by Amazon.com, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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