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True Non-Profit

True Non-Profit is a public knowledge base about non-profits, public-benefit institutions, and the assessment of how true a non-profit is to its stated mission.

Thesis

A non-profit is not made true by tax status, branding, virtue language, or the absence of shareholders. A non-profit is true when control, money, labor, decisions, and outcomes are ordered around a public-benefit mission rather than private extraction or institutional self-preservation.

Trueness is the measurable distance between formal non-profit status and actual mission-governed public-benefit behavior.

What This Knowledge Base Builds

  • A first-principles explanation of what non-profits are for.
  • A 100-point trueness scale.
  • A repeatable assessment method.
  • A public register structure for assessed organizations.

Current Status

This is draft 0.1. The assessment register intentionally starts without scored real-world organizations. Organizations should only receive scores after a dedicated evidence file exists with public source links and reviewer notes.