What is a philanthropic foundation?
Tobias Jung, Jenny Harrow, and Diana Leat, 2018
As one of the most unrestricted contemporary organizational forms, it is difficult to define what constitutes a foundation. Foundations’ long and colorful history shows varying perceptions over time: from the legal frameworks of the Roman Corpus Juris Civilis and the German Lex Salica in the sixth century, the establishment and growth of Islamic foundations or waqfs as a juridical form from around 755 ce, to the 1535 and 1601 Statutes of Uses and of Charitable Uses in England. Although foundations’ developments across different settings and traditions are usually considered in isolation, there are strong indications of mutual influences, ...
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