Strongly second this comment. As someone currently doing a lot of things that more or less amount to ‘pay other people to do thing x that I think should be done’, I would be very interested in understanding the most efficient way of doing so. But from this post I really don’t know why individuals should be cheaper overall; charitable status is a huge factor in favour of institutions (a much larger factor in the UK than the US admittedly, but still) and is currently the only significant factor I am aware of in either direction.
Strongly second this comment. As someone currently doing a lot of things that more or less amount to ‘pay other people to do thing x that I think should be done’, I would be very interested in understanding the most efficient way of doing so. But from this post I really don’t know why individuals should be cheaper overall; charitable status is a huge factor in favour of institutions (a much larger factor in the UK than the US admittedly, but still) and is currently the only significant factor I am aware of in either direction.