I can’t quite nail the analogy, but it seems to me that if you took this article, replaced “startup” with “nonprofit” and tweaked the context a bit, it would make for an interesting conversation about the nonprofit sector.

The short version might go something like this: as in the tech startup industry, there are too many nonprofits chasing too little top-flight talent.  They can’t compete on cash.  </analogy ends> So instead they just don’t really compete at all.