Nonprofit Organizations and K-12 Education In public K-12 schools, funding can come from a combination of local, state, and federal governments, which are paid through taxes. Likewise, much of the direction for K-12 schools comes from leadership within these governmental powers. Nonprofits, on the other hand, are charity organizations that can be funded either privately or publicly. Unlike for-profit businesses, in which stakeholders pocket the profits, nonprofits use their profitable gains to further fund their organizational work. As a result, nonprofits are not limited by the public in the works they do as the government, that must serve the people, is. Those that support each organization’s cause is able to do so with the trust that