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Great thought. Seems a clear case of a nonprofit being used for commercial gain.

• bhickey 7y ago
  Non-profits can operate commercially as long as that business is consistent with their charitable business. I ran a non-profit science fiction magazine. We sold magazines at a profit, or at least tried to. The problem here is that the leadership of PIR transferred their assets in a way that appears to enrich the same.
  • jlokier 7y ago
    They can, so long as commercially means operating at a surplus (keeping the profit to use later) rather than distributing profits (giving out the profit). (Details may be incorrect. IANAL.)