non-profits ==> competition is not exactly red in tooth and claw
Are you serious? Competition for donations between non-profits in my experience is often even more extreme then between for-profits. Do you have any evidence for softer competition among non-profits?
Besides some non-profits are really phenomenally well functioning for-profits, which happen to have chosen a non-profit tax status.
For example, in the US the non-profit AAA will quickly drop any pick-up truck company known not up to its standards. Mind you, all that's needed if for the truck to show up roughly on time and be reasonably courteous. Still that is quite something when you're in a bad spot and need those kind of services.
And the AAA is popular enough that being on their shit list will cause sever financial pain to any pick-up truck services provider.
But to join the AAA you have to pay a regular fee and they have all kinds of tie-ins with piles and piles of 3rd party service and goods providers.
I don't begrudge them their non-profit tax status, but they are a damn well run and huge business.
> The only other examples I have are anecdotal.
Agreed.