Charitable donations and the infrastructure supporting them

I have many weird hobbies, and one of them was that I once tweeted myself into running the U.S.’s shadow vaccine location information infrastructure. It’s a long story for another day. Relevantly to this column, that resulted in me becoming the CEO of a charity, and I got an up-close-and-personal look at how money moves into and out of charities. It is fascinating; charities are both treated far more like regular companies than you’d expect and also have some procedural weirdness.