[Data-modeling] Non-profits, once more with feeling

[Faye Li]

How about a property for the nonprofit's legal status or classification? 
And how about using some established codes for these?

Within the U.S., the IRS records a organization's tax-exempt status 
under about two dozen 501(c) codes. This code alone provides valuable 
data on the organization: whether it's publicly or privately funded, 
whether it is religious or educational in nature, or benefiting of a 
particular group like firefighters or the homeless, whether your 
donations are tax-deductible, etc. ;)

Assuming other countries have similar constructs or guidelines 
consisting of 1) a governmental body and 2) legal classification for 
nonprofits, I think "Legal Status" would make a good little CVT property 
here. Come to think of it, I'm pretty sure every tax-collecting country 
establishes this kind of guidelines to qualify an organization as 
"nonprofit".

I'm also coveting the NCCS's (National Center for Charitable Statistics) 
rather obsessive compulsive classification codes for nonprofits called 
the NTEE-CC, and codes for the programs these organizations offer, 
called the NPC codes. It would be nice to reuse their nicely researched 
codes if we could arrange a compatible data license.

Al mentioned religious affiliation in another email. Both the IRS and 
the NCCS codes cover religious affiliation. NCCS even break down between 
religions.

-- Faye


Jeff Prucher wrote:
> I sent a note about this a couple weeks ago, and received no responses. I'm
> figuring that either things are slow because it's summer (in the Northern
> Hemisphere anyway) or that nobody cares much about this schema one way or
> another.  Just in case it's the former, I'm reposting my non-profit
> organization schema to sandbox; if it's for the latter reason, I'll go ahead
> and upload the schema at my leisure. :)
>
> https://sandbox.freebase.com/type/view/organization/non_profit_organization
>
> It's pretty basic; it includes the types Organization (to get the board
> members and parent/child organizations, among other things), and Employer.
>
> Jeff Prucher
> Type Librarian & Ontologist
> Metaweb Technologies, Inc. 
>
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