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The people in charge are getting a very modest salary for a developer, and a extremely modest salary for someone running a 10m/yr organization.

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so they’re profiting, glad we agree

A non-profit does not mean it does not spend money on anyone's salary. It means the corporate entity does not make a profit.

That doesn't really matter?

It does matter. People working for a non-profit should not work for free. It's completely acceptable for a non-profit to have an income and assets. Revenue may increase and it would be irresponsible to immediately increase expenses to match when they can conservatively plan for the future.

This is said knowing nothing about the company in question, just from my own experience working for a non-profit. Employees still need to be paid.

The amount they get paid shouldn't matter at all. Nobody said anything about not paying people lol

The OP said if the founder is getting paid a salary it shouldn't be called a non-profit.

That is literally what the OP is arguing that people who found non-profit organization shouldn't be paid even a modest salary for their work.

I wouldn't say that a salary is profiteering from a non profit. It's the cost of doing (non-profit) business.

So if I got paid $50 to write this reply I wouldn't have profited from writing it?

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