Organization

An organization such as a school, NGO, corporation, club, etc.

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Properties (91)

Properties defined on Organization
Property	Expects	Description
acceptedPaymentMethod	LoanOrCredit, PaymentMethod, Text	The payment method(s) that are accepted in general by an organization, or for some specific demand or offer.
actionableFeedbackPolicy	CreativeWork, URL	For a NewsMediaOrganization or other news-related Organization, a statement about public engagement activities (for news media, the newsroom’s), including involving the public - digitally or otherwise -- in coverage decisions, reporting and activities after publication.
address	PostalAddress, Text	Physical address of the item.
agentInteractionStatistic	InteractionCounter	The number of completed interactions for this entity, in a particular role (the 'agent'), in a particular action (indicated in the statistic), and in a particular context (i.e. interactionService).
aggregateRating	AggregateRating	The overall rating, based on a collection of reviews or ratings, of the item.
alumni	Person	Alumni of an organization.
areaServed	AdministrativeArea, GeoShape, Place, Text	The geographic area where a service or offered item is provided.
authorizedRepresentative	Organization, Person	An organization or person officially appointed to act on behalf of the manufacturer in a specific region or context.
award	Text	An award won by or for this item.
awardssuperseded	Text	Use award instead. Awards won by or for this item.
brand	Brand, Organization	The brand(s) associated with a product or service, or the brand(s) maintained by an organization or business person.
companyRegistration	Certification	The official registration information of a business including the organization that issued it such as Company House or Chamber of Commerce in form of a Certification.
contactPoint	ContactPoint	A contact point for a person or organization.
contactPointssuperseded	ContactPoint	Use contactPoint instead. A contact point for a person or organization.
correctionsPolicy	CreativeWork, URL	For an Organization (e.g. NewsMediaOrganization), a statement describing (in news media, the newsroom’s) disclosure and correction policy for errors.
department	Organization	A relationship between an organization and a department of that organization, also described as an organization (allowing different urls, logos, opening hours). For example: a store with a pharmacy, or a bakery with a cafe.
dissolutionDate	Date	The date that this organization was dissolved.
diversityPolicy	CreativeWork, URL	Statement on diversity policy by an Organization e.g. a NewsMediaOrganization. For a NewsMediaOrganization, a statement describing the newsroom’s diversity policy on both staffing and sources, typically providing staffing data.
diversityStaffingReport	Article, URL	For an Organization (often but not necessarily a NewsMediaOrganization), a report on staffing diversity issues. In a news context this might be for example ASNE or RTDNA (US) reports, or self-reported.
duns	Text	The Dun & Bradstreet DUNS number for identifying an organization or business person.
email	Text	Email address.
employee	Person	Someone working for this organization.
employeessuperseded	Person	Use employee instead. People working for this organization.
ethicsPolicy	CreativeWork, URL	Statement about ethics policy, e.g. of a NewsMediaOrganization regarding journalistic and publishing practices, or of a Restaurant, a page describing food source policies. In the case of a NewsMediaOrganization, an ethicsPolicy is typically a statement describing the personal, organizational, and corporate standards of behavior expected by the organization.
event	Event	Upcoming or past event associated with this place, organization, or action.
eventssuperseded	Event	Use event instead. Upcoming or past events associated with this place or organization.
faxNumber	Text	The fax number.
founder	Organization, Person	A person or organization who founded this organization.
founderssuperseded	Person	Use founder instead. A person who founded this organization.
foundingDate	Date	The date that this organization was founded.
foundingLocation	Place	The place where the Organization was founded.
funder	Organization, Person	A person or organization that supports (sponsors) something through some kind of financial contribution.
funding	Grant	A Grant that directly or indirectly provide funding or sponsorship for this item. See also ownershipFundingInfo.
globalLocationNumber	Text	The Global Location Number (GLN, sometimes also referred to as International Location Number or ILN) of the respective organization, person, or place. The GLN is a 13-digit number used to identify parties and physical locations.
hasCertification	Certification	Certification information about a product, organization, service, place, or person.
hasCredential	Credential	A credential awarded to the Person or Organization.
hasGS1DigitalLink	URL	The GS1 digital link associated with the object. This URL should conform to the particular requirements of digital links. The link should only contain the Application Identifiers (AIs) that are relevant for the entity being annotated, for instance a Product or an Organization, and for the correct granularity. In particular, for products:A Digital Link that contains a serial number (AI 21) should only be present on instances of IndividualProductA Digital Link that contains a lot number (AI 10) should be annotated as SomeProducts if only products from that lot are sold, or IndividualProduct if there is only a specific product.A Digital Link that contains a global model number (AI 8013) should be attached to a Product or a ProductModel. Other item types should be adapted similarly.
hasMemberProgram	MemberProgram	MemberProgram offered by an Organization, for example an eCommerce merchant or an airline.
hasMerchantReturnPolicy	MerchantReturnPolicy	Specifies a MerchantReturnPolicy that may be applicable.
hasOfferCatalog	OfferCatalog	Indicates an OfferCatalog listing for this Organization, Person, or Service.
hasPOS	Place	Points-of-Sales operated by the organization or person.
hasProductReturnPolicysuperseded	ProductReturnPolicy	Use hasMerchantReturnPolicy instead. Indicates a ProductReturnPolicy that may be applicable.
hasShippingService	ShippingService	Specification of a shipping service offered by the organization.
interactionStatistic	InteractionCounter	The number of interactions for the CreativeWork using the WebSite or SoftwareApplication. The most specific child type of InteractionCounter should be used.
isicV4	Text	The International Standard of Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC), Revision 4 code for a particular organization, business person, or place.
iso6523Code	Text	An organization identifier as defined in ISO 6523(-1). The identifier should be in the `XXXX:YYYYYY:ZZZ` or `XXXX:YYYYYY`format. Where `XXXX` is a 4 digit _ICD_ (International Code Designator), `YYYYYY` is an _OID_ (Organization Identifier) with all formatting characters (dots, dashes, spaces) removed with a maximal length of 35 characters, and `ZZZ` is an optional OPI (Organization Part Identifier) with a maximum length of 35 characters. The various components (ICD, OID, OPI) are joined with a colon character (ASCII `0x3a`). Note that many existing organization identifiers defined as attributes like leiCode (`0199`), duns (`0060`) or GLN (`0088`) can be expressed using ISO-6523. If possible, ISO-6523 codes should be preferred to populating vatID or taxID, as ISO identifiers are less ambiguous.
keywords	DefinedTerm, Text, URL	Keywords or tags used to describe some item. Multiple textual entries in a keywords list are typically delimited by commas, or by repeating the property.
knowsAbout	Text, Thing, URL	Of a Person, and less typically of an Organization, to indicate a topic that is known about - suggesting possible expertise but not implying it. We do not distinguish skill levels here, or relate this to educational content, events, objectives or JobPosting descriptions.
knowsLanguage	Language, Text	Of a Person, and less typically of an Organization, to indicate a known language. We do not distinguish skill levels or reading/writing/speaking/signing here. Use language codes from the IETF BCP 47 standard.
legalAddress	PostalAddress	The legal address of an organization which acts as the officially registered address used for legal and tax purposes. The legal address can be different from the place of operations of a business and other addresses can be part of an organization.
legalName	Text	The official name of the organization, e.g. the registered company name.
legalRepresentative	Person	One or multiple persons who represent this organization legally such as CEO or sole administrator.
leiCode	Text	An organization identifier that uniquely identifies a legal entity as defined in ISO 17442.
location	Place, PostalAddress, Text, VirtualLocation	The location of, for example, where an event is happening, where an organization is located, or where an action takes place.
logo	ImageObject, URL	An associated logo.
makesOffer	Offer	A pointer to products or services offered by the organization or person.
member	Organization, Person	A member of an Organization or a ProgramMembership. Organizations can be members of organizations; ProgramMembership is typically for individuals.
memberOf	MemberProgramTier, Organization, ProgramMembership	An Organization (or ProgramMembership) to which this Person or Organization belongs.
memberssuperseded	Organization, Person	Use member instead. A member of this organization.
naics	Text	The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for a particular organization or business person.
nonprofitStatus	NonprofitType	nonprofitStatus indicates the legal status of a non-profit organization in its primary place of business.
numberOfEmployees	QuantitativeValue	The number of employees in an organization, e.g. business.
ownershipFundingInfo	AboutPage, CreativeWork, Text, URL	For an Organization (often but not necessarily a NewsMediaOrganization), a description of organizational ownership structure; funding and grants. In a news/media setting, this is with particular reference to editorial independence. Note that the funder is also available and can be used to make basic funder information machine-readable.
owns	Thing	Things owned by the organization or person.
parentOrganization	Organization	The larger organization that this organization is a subOrganization of, if any.
publishingPrinciples	CreativeWork, URL	The publishingPrinciples property indicates (typically via URL) a document describing the editorial principles of an Organization (or individual, e.g. a Person writing a blog) that relate to their activities as a publisher, e.g. ethics or diversity policies. When applied to a CreativeWork (e.g. NewsArticle) the principles are those of the party primarily responsible for the creation of the CreativeWork. While such policies are most typically expressed in natural language, sometimes related information (e.g. indicating a funder) can be expressed using schema.org terminology.
review	Review	A review of the item.
reviewssuperseded	Review	Use review instead. Review of the item.
seeks	Demand	A pointer to products or services sought by the organization or person (demand).
serviceAreasuperseded	AdministrativeArea, GeoShape, Place	Use areaServed instead. The geographic area where the service is provided.
skills	DefinedTerm, Text	A statement of knowledge, skill, ability, task or any other assertion expressing a competency that is either claimed by a person, an organization or desired or required to fulfill a role or to work in an occupation.
slogan	Text	A slogan or motto associated with the item.
sponsor	Organization, Person	A person or organization that supports a thing through a pledge, promise, or financial contribution. E.g. a sponsor of a Medical Study or a corporate sponsor of an event.
subOrganization	Organization	A relationship between two organizations where the first includes the second, e.g., as a subsidiary. See also: the more specific 'department' property.
taxID	Text	The Tax / Fiscal ID of the organization or person, e.g. the TIN in the US or the CIF/NIF in Spain.
telephone	Text	The telephone number.
unnamedSourcesPolicy	CreativeWork, URL	For an Organization (typically a NewsMediaOrganization), a statement about policy on use of unnamed sources and the decision process required.
vatID	Text	The value-added Tax ID of the organization or person with national prefix (for example IT123456789). Can also be described as iso6523Code with proper prefix.

From Thing (13)

additionalType, alternateName, description, disambiguatingDescription, identifier, image, mainEntityOfPage, name, owner, potentialAction, sameAs, subjectOf, url

Where Organization is used as a value

These properties expect a Organization: acquiredFrom, affiliation, agent, alumniOf, attendee, attendees, authenticator, author, authorizedRepresentative, bccRecipient, bookingAgent, branchOf, brand, broadcastAffiliateOf, broadcaster, broker, buyer, carrier, ccRecipient, claimInterpreter, composer, contributor, copyrightHolder, creator, creditedTo, customer, department, eligibleWithSupplier, employmentUnit, endorsee, endorsers, followee, founder, fundedItem, funder, grantee, hiringOrganization, hostingOrganization, importer, issuedBy, landlord, legislationCountersignedBy, legislationPassedBy, legislationResponsible, lender, maintainer, manufacturer, member, memberOf, members, merchant, offeredBy, organizer, owner, parentOrganization, participant, performer, performers, producer, productionCompany, provider, publishedBy, publisher, publisherImprint, recipient, recognizedBy, recognizingAuthority, recordLabel, reviewedBy, sdPublisher, seller, sender, serviceOperator, sourceOrganization, spokenByCharacter, sponsor, subOrganization, toRecipient, translator, underName, vendor, worksFor.