As the article notes, many non-profits are often little more than tax avoidance structures - one sign of this is bloated salaries paid to the upper-tier executi

As the article notes, many non-profits are often little more than tax avoidance structures - one sign of this is bloated salaries paid to the upper-tier executives. This is described as 'the economic theory': > "From an economic point of view, it could be said that a fair percentage of America’s non-profits are phony non-profits of a sort. In these cases, the non-profit isn’t a major vehicle for social change; rather, it is a bunch of profit-seeking vehicles with a tax break, masquerading as non-profits." The religion and television theories the article introduces are very interesting - i.e. the notion that non-profits are 'seeding ideas into media', and the fact that religious non-profits "have yearly revenues around $378 billion." This points to the role of non-profits in what might be called deliberate social engineering attempts of various sorts. An addition category, however, could be "the government theory", since non-profits have been heavily utilized by governments as cutouts for state propaganda, often in partnership with private interests. Non-profits are not very transparent when it comes to sources of funding. In this context, they're generally referred to as 'non-governmental organizations' (NGOs). A fairly notorious example is the Ford Foundation and the CIA, dating back to the 1950s, e.g. https://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/FordFandCIA.html https://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/FordFandCIA.html It's hardly just the US government doing this - other actors include Israel, Saudi Arabia, Russia, China, etc. Propaganda-wise, this is called 'relying on independent third-party credibility', aka 'gray propaganda'. More generally: https://knowledgenuts.com/difference-between-gray-white-and-black-propaganda https://knowledgenuts.com/difference-between-gray-white-and-...