Why Start a Nonprofit When You Could Just Donate the Money? - Brent and Kyle Pease

Today we're thrilled to welcome Brent and Kyle Pease, co-founders of the Kyle Pease Foundation and co-creators of 29029, the endurance event where participants climb the vertical equivalent of Everest in 36 hours.Brent and Kyle built a $3 million nonprofit from zero while working other jobs on the side. In this episode they share how they think about mission-aligned hiring, why the overhead ratio is the wrong way to evaluate a nonprofit, how donors deepen their giving over time, and what the time, talent, and treasure framework actually looks like in practice.Key Topics Covered• Why the overhead ratio misleads even sophisticated donors, and what to ask instead• How mission-aligned hiring works at a nonprofit built around athletes with disabilities• The donor who gave zero for two years and now gives $50,000 annually• Revenue structure across crowdfunding, grants, and major gifts• Why Brent and Kyle kept their own salaries low to protect the mission• The earn-and-donate question: when writing the check creates more impact than showing up• How 29029 used purposeful scarcity to protect the experience as it scaled• A practical framework for giving: time, talent, and treasureValuable Links• Subscribe to Navigating Wealth Newsletter: https://www.longangle.com/navigating-wealth-podcast• Apply to Long Angle HNW Community: https://www.longangle.com• Kyle Pease Foundation: https://kylepeasefoundation.org/• Connect with Brent Pease on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brent-pease-781a884/Socials• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/long-angle• Twitter/X: https://x.com/LongAngleHNW• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/longanglehnw/• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/longanglehnwLong Angle is a private, vetted global community of accomplished entrepreneurs, executives and professionals who have reached meaningful financial milestones and want to navigate wealth with peers who understand their challenges, opportunities, responsibilities and ambitions.Hosted by the founders of the Long Angle community, Navigating Wealth explores how experienced investors, founders and operators approach the real questions wealth creates — from private markets and capital allocation to business exits and life design.#KylePeaseFoundation #Nonprofit #Philanthropy #CharitableGiving #NonprofitLeadership #NavigatingWealth #LongAngle #SocialImpact