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foundation

Summary

foundation is a legal term or legal concept[1]. foundation draws 1,080 Wikipedia views per month (legal_term_or_legal_concept category, ranking #82 of 484).[2]

Key Facts

  • foundation's instance of is recorded as legal term or legal concept[3].
  • foundation's instance of is recorded as legal form[4].
  • foundation is a type of nonprofit organization[5].
  • foundation is a type of juridical person[6].
  • foundation is a type of legal person[7].
  • foundation's Commons category is recorded as Foundations (organizations)[8].
  • foundation's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Foundations[9].
  • foundation's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[10].
  • foundation's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox foundation[11].
  • foundation's different from is recorded as voluntary association[12].
  • foundation's different from is recorded as association[13].
  • foundation's different from is recorded as foundation[14].
  • foundation's model item is recorded as Wikimedia Foundation[15].
  • foundation's model item is recorded as Ford Foundation[16].
  • foundation's model item is recorded as Gates Foundation[17].

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Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include legal term or legal concept[3] and legal form[4].

Why It Matters

foundation draws 1,080 Wikipedia views per month (legal_term_or_legal_concept category, ranking #82 of 484).[2] foundation has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] foundation is known by 30 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

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Advanced Technology Centre for Renewable Energies Agrotecnio, Centre for Food and Agriculture Research Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research Amerind Foundation Armenian National Agrarian University August Sander Stiftung Barcelona Institute for Science and Technology Berlin Institute for Population and Development Bruno Kessler Foundation Center of Advanced European Studies and Research Centro de Estudios Universitarios Centro italiano di studi sull'alto Medioevo Chr. Michelsen Institute Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research CROW DESY DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education Federico Zeri Foundation Fondazione Santagata for the Economics of Culture Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg Foundation for Defense of Democracies Foundation for Siberian Cultures Fundação de Economia e Estatística Siegfried Emanuel Heuser Gates Foundation GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel German Cancer Research Center German Institute for Global and Area Studies German Institute for International and Security Affairs GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences Harvard Olympiad Foundation

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 14d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Different from → voluntary association, association, foundation
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → nonprofit organization, juridical person, legal person
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 271, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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