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@clacke I'm going to play devil's advocate here, because I feel these need to be on record.

Donations are fundamentally different; you donate because it provides value to whom you are donating. You generally expect nothing in return; as such, you're basically an angel investor.

Also, there is a large body of historical evidence where charitable organizations were caught consuming greater than 80% of funds donated for non-charitable purposes (usually some form of overhead).