Volunteering nonprofit entrepreneurial services

Which member of a heterogeneous population will volunteer to provide the entrepreneurial services needed to found a nonprofit firm to privately provide a public good? We develop a model of this decision, The model predicts that nonprofit entrepreneurs will be those who incur relatively low private costs, or get a relatively high private payoff. Less obviously, they will tend to have a high discount rate and relatively long time horizons, either due to their youth, or due to their consideration of generations to come far into the future. If the public good is one which individuals tend to contribute large amounts to, such entrepreneurs will tend to be relatively wealthy. If private contributions to the firm are relatively small, the entrepreneur is more likely to come from the center of the wealth distribution.