NTEE

The National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) classification system is used by the IRS and NCCS to categorize nonprofit organizations. Most such organizations are 501(c)(3)'s, as Wikimedia DC is, but perhaps not all of them. This is a list of examples to compare to, and to get a sense of the formal/organizational "industry" we're part of.

List of the possible categories: https://urbaninstitute.github.io/nccs-legacy/ntee/ntee.html

To add below: FSF,

• B02 - Education: General - (Internet Archive)
• B60, "Education: Two-Year Colleges, Vocational, Adult Education, & Other": WMF
• B70 - Education, libraries- DPLA (Digital Public Library of America, Boston
• B90 Wikimedia DC), Wikimedia NY
• B99, "Education: General": Wiki Education Foundation, Hacks/Hackers, Khan Academy, Mtn View, Interactive Sciences Inc. host of Wowbrary
• M19 - Public Safety, Disaster Preparedness, & Relief (Humanitarian Open Street Map)
• R63 - Civil Rights, Social Action, & Advocacy: Civil Liberties (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
• S20 - Community Development: General - (Open Street Map US, nominally at 712 H St NE, DC)
• S30 - Public benefit - general, government, & public administration- Society of Government Economists
• S40 - "Community Development: Business & Industry": Mediawiki Stakeholders user group
• S41, Community Development: Business & Industry: Linux Foundation
• T23 - Public, Societal Benefit - Open Society InstituteWikimedia Endowment, Tides Foundation (holder of WMF endowment)
• U40 - Public, Societal Benefit, for sci and tech Mozilla Foundation
• W02 - Public Benefit: General, Government, & Public Administration - The Data Foundation

Sources

• Excellent search, but can't do many in one day from one IP addr: https://x4i.org/nonprofit-ntee-code-finder
• IRS source: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/p4838.pdf
• [1] ; [2] ; [3] ; []

Opportunities for improvement

The category system is forcing "information" into "education", simply because there is no "public information" category for libraries

• SGE's category should be more clearly "professional association"
• WMF and IA and OSM should be more clearly classified as something like "Information: public sources"; as it is, the WMF and IA are forced into "education", and OSM's in "community development", as if they were structurally pushing or guiding institutions, not open public resources