As mentioned above, we use empirical data obtained in the study of Kazakhstani NGOs. The data used in this paper were collected by the Civil Alliance of Kazakhstan in 2011[11]. Using SurveyMonkey (an online survey development cloud-based service), they sent out the questionnaires to more than 1 500 organizations and had received back 224 completed questionnaires. Every questionnaire was filled by a director or a senior officer. Further three questionnaires were rejected because they were not complete (they had many missing data). Thus, returning rate was about 15 per cent.