That is interesting experiment, but most of the people are money hungry and it may be difficult for non-profit community driven project to attract attention even if it is deserved.
"non-profit"?
you are aware of that basically ALL cryptos are non-profit, apart from crap like ripple and onecoin and stuff like that?
or who "owns" BTC in your eyes? its CEO?

there simply are no "for-profit" coins as nobody is interested in that stuff.
Well, scams are always for-profit, which among altcoins there're plenty of, if not the most part. But decent projects with an interesting tech always gain traction unless the developers make some bad mistakes.
Any coin with a premine or ICO is for-profit, which is essentially every coin out there. Most are for-profit nowadays. In the same vein, I'd argue most altcoins are scams, too.