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Only when there isn't a secondary goal in mind. For example, apprenticeship is a process where someone who clearly can do, teaches, because the master recognizes that some of their tasks are better performed by novice apprentices than by themselves - and the only way to guarantee quality novice apprentices is to create them.
For CFAR, the magnum opus seems to be human uplift - a process where the doing and the teaching are simply different levels of the same process.
The point is that there are many people who want to spread their message on how to effectively attain your goals. Generally, the quality of message is going to positively correlate with success and thus negatively correlate with being short on money or depending on charitable contributions.
I am not sure what is your definition of "success", but why exactly should getting money through contributions be worse than getting money by any other means?
If "success" is just a black box for doing what you wanted to do, then CFAR asking for money, getting donations, and using them to teach their curricullum is, by definition, a success.
If "success" is something else, then... please be more specific.