Handing out windfalls carries a lot less stress and commitment than starting a struggling nonprofit. If we're talking about ways to buy happiness with money, starting a nonprofit is not a substitute for money.
OK but we have to look at how much. If you're sitting on say $500,000, just through accumulation, with no intention of using it, then how will adding a zero or two change that?
Does some goal or ambition miraculously appear? It might... Perhaps this puts new things in reach.
The crux of the argument however is that unless those things are something intimately personal like starting a serious art collection or buying a private jet, you could arguably get the money.
And if they are personal itches then you likely won't get them fixed through materialism. There's decent $100 paintings and $20,000 airplanes you can split between 3 or so people (ie, $5,000 a person). This is actual money, yes. But it's not 1%er status.
