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Being largely dependent on government spending and tax breaks does not make you a public sector organization.

True in only the most reductive and naive sense; but this is the sort of mistake that ostensibly private orgs like the ones above count on, in order to avoid the kind of scrutiny & accountability that an explicitly public agency must endure.



If by reductive and naive sense you mean by the actual definition of private vs public sector.


If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck....




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