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by dragonwriter 1200 days ago
> Having said that, plenty of extremely profitable organizations masquerade (literally and figuratively) as non-profits.

Non-profit doesn’t mean the organization isn’t supposed to have surplus revenue, it means it doesn’t exist to return profits (e.g., via a claim on the assets of the company) to stockholders or some other beneficiary with a claim on them.