There is no "jack shit" about the Raspberry Pi Foundation's charitable status. It's really not in question. They've even relatively recently split the busines

There is no "jack shit" about the Raspberry Pi Foundation's charitable status. It's really not in question. They've even relatively recently split the business in two (Foundation and Trading Company) to further protect the charitable aims of the Foundation and avoid the ugly Ikea situation. There is also (in the UK and in the USA as I understand it) a distinction between not-for-profit and charitable status. In the USA AFAIK most self-declared non-profit organisations follow or are advised to model themselves on the Georgia Nonprofit Corporation code. But not all non-profits are charities (all charities are non-profits, but as you say, it does not mean they don't _make_ profits from time to time; they just don't return them to shareholders). In the UK we have slightly different non-profit codes like the CIC (Community Interest Company). They are very distinct from charities.