We have a bad habit of treating tax statuses like moral report cards. In the public imagination, organizations are split into an oversimplified binary. On one side stands the nonprofit: a saintly, community-first entity fueled entirely by altruism. On the other stands the for-profit: a cold, mercenary machine designed solely to extract money from people’s pockets. This view is fundamentally wrong. It misinterprets how organizations survive and achieve goals. The biggest part