What is different about the way business firms and nonprofit organizations operate?

Unlike a business firm, a nonprofit organization needs resources and support to survive and achieve its objectives.

Unlike a business firm, a nonprofit organization must take in as much money as it spends or it won't survive.

A nonprofit organization does not measure "profit" in the same way as a business firm does.

Nonprofit organizations face competition for customers; business firms do not.

Unlike a business firm, a nonprofit organization gets support directly from those who receive the benefits.