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

[Faye Li]

Technically a non-profit is just an organization that's not commercially 
motivated. :)

Legally though, the term has very specific definitions in the US, 
state-defined definitions, actually, which means a CA-based nonprofit 
may very well not qualify as a "non-proft" under say, Montana state law. 
To sort through the state-to-state discrepancy the IRS has the final say 
on nationally recognized non-profit organizations through section 501(c) 
codes. There are over a million (!) of them registered with the IRS 
today. Even 1% of that data will make a nice chunk in Freebase. :)

But that's besides the point, which is: a non-profit has a privileged 
status which has to be qualified by the system that recognizes it as a 
non-profit, much as a protected site needs to specify the park system 
under which it is protected. Without that data, or at least a property 
to input that data, the claim of being a non-profit becomes...well, 
unqualified, and legally weak.

Kirrily, I'll have to check out your charities domain. :)

-- Faye


Kirrily Robert wrote:
> Not all non-profits take donations.  However, I have been modeling  
> charities in a domain of my own (/user/skud/charities) and I've got  
> properties for religious affiliation as well as geographical focus.
>
> K.
>
> On Aug 7, 2008, at 3:27 PM, Alexander Marks wrote:
>
>   
>> How about a Religious Affiliation property? Applies to any  
>> organization, I guess, but seems especially relevant for those that  
>> take donations.
>>
>> Al
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jeff Prucher" <jeff at metaweb.com>
>> To: "Freebase data modeling mailing list" <data-modeling at freebase.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2008 9:24:29 PM (GMT) Europe/London
>> Subject: [Data-modeling] Non-profits, once more with feeling
>>
>> 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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