Forget non-profit, I mean an a legit venture capitalist that is out to do a R & D test on the real value of steemit.  Their interns spend time on here, try to be profitable as much as possible, see if profitability can be achieved and at what scale, and then they can make some legit evaluations.  They like what they got, they dive in, they don't, they sell say screw it, or hopefully wait for a good time to sell and get out.  I agree, unfortunately I have a lot of reservations with ''non-profit agencies/charitable trusts'' as well.  Pretty hard to write off travel expense on a purely online pursuit though that someone can do work from anywhere with an internet connection and a laptop though also.  I too struggle with the non profit designation with people getting paid/beneficiary of ten times or more the regular working wage of a given country/state.