“What I Learned Living Around a Nonprofit as a Christian: Why Being One Doesn’t Mean You’re Doing Good”

I was watching The Ramsey Show Highlights and one thing he said stuck with me:

Being a nonprofit doesn’t make you holy.

That’s a statement I agree with.

What I Saw Up Close

When I was younger, I lived at a nonprofit. Someone close to me worked high up in the organization and was in regular communication with the owner. From the outside, everything looked right. Good branding. Good messaging. Big mission.

Behind the scenes, though, the numbers didn’t match the impact.

A lot of money was moving, but not much of it was reaching the kids the way it should have. The owner lived well—and there’s nothing wrong with that—but the action didn’t reflect a real urgency or passion for helping others anymore. Maybe it was there at one point. I don’t know. I don’t judge the past. I pray for people when perspective shifts.

But I know what I saw.

Why That Changed Me

What bothered me wasn’t success. It was imbalance.

If I had access to the kind of money they were touching, I know more kids would’ve been helped. More people would’ve felt it. The work would’ve been louder than the branding. The mission would’ve felt real, not managed.

Titles don’t save people.
Paperwork doesn’t feed kids.
Status doesn’t equal sacrifice.

Action does.

Why This Matters Here

This is why I’m proud of what we’re building with The Good Sheep.

We’re not hiding behind labels. We’re not using “nonprofit” as a shield. We’re focused on movement, not image. If money comes in, it moves outward. If growth happens, impact grows with it.

No pretending. No excuses.

You Don’t Need Money to Help

Here’s the part people forget: you don’t even need to give money to help.

Sharing this with a coworker.
Posting it in a group chat.
Pointing someone toward the work.

If someone helps because you shared it, that counts. That’s impact.

Why I Won’t Do This Dirty

People have thought I was a scam before. I get it. I don’t look like what people expect. I’ve lived around chaos. I’ve done wild things. But what they eventually find out is simple:

I actually want the world to be better.

That’s it.

This is my turn to do it right.
And I won’t do it the same way I’ve seen it done wrong.

Proverbs 3:27 (KJV) – “Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.”

1 John 3:18 (KJV) – “My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.”

Matthew 25:40 (KJV) – “And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”