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Reasonable said:

I have some friends who are senior directors in charities and they do seem to be much more efficient, on the ball and knowledgable in how to best use funds to get the maximum result.  Course I might be biased towards my friends, but I honestly don't think so.  The independant bodies just seem to handle this kind of tricky eligibility evaluation much better, and get things done with far less fuss.

Yeah. I think it's because they genuinely do care, and also because they have to. Whereas the government can just tax, borrow, or print itself some more money and has no real incentive to be anything other than wildly inefficient, charities just don't have that luxury. Necessity is the mother of invention, after all.