Context: A nonprofit organization (NPO, also known as a non-business entity) is an organization whose purposes are other than making a profit. A nonprofit organization is often dedicated to furthering a particular social cause or advocating for a particular point of view. In economic terms, a nonprofit organization uses its surplus revenues to further achieve its purpose or mission, rather than distributing its surplus income to the organization's shareholders (or equivalents) as profit or dividends. This is known as the distribution constraint. The decision to adopt a nonprofit legal structure is one that will often have taxation implications, particularly where the nonprofit seeks income tax exemption, charitable status and so on.

Question: What is the definition of a non-profit organization?
Answer: purposes are other than making a profit

Question: What is an NPO also known as?
Answer: non-business entity

Question: What is the purpose of an NPO?
Answer: furthering a particular social cause or advocating for a particular point of view

Question: What does a non-profit do with the money it takes in, instead of using it for a profit?
Answer: further achieve its purpose or mission, rather than distributing its surplus income to the organization's shareholders (or equivalents) as profit

Question: What is it called when a non-profit uses it's money as it should?
Answer: distribution constraint

Question: What is the purpose of the organization's shareholders?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What does a group of shareholders do with surplus income?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What is the constraint on how shareholders distribute funds called?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What is a nonprofit legal structure also known as?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What does charitable status mean you are dedicated to?
Answer: Unanswerable