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Top 25 Charitable foundations based in Italy
RevenueBase identified 86 charitable foundations headquartered in Italy as of September 2026 and tracks 872 professional contacts across them, including 319 with verified work emails. Milano is the largest hub.
This list covers charitable foundations headquartered in Italy, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
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The 25 largest charitable foundations based in Italy
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 163 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo was founded in Torino in 1563 as a charitable brotherhood and is one of Europe’s most important private foundations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 96 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Fondazione Pia Opera Ciccarelli ETS è nata nel 1885, per volontà di Mons.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 90 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For more than 30 years Fondazione Cariplo is ranked among the world’s most influential philanthropic institutions in the international arena.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1991, Fondazione CRT has established itself as one of the most significant nonprofit organizations in northern Italy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Fondazione Roma è un istituto privato, nato dall'iniziativa e dalla lungimiranza di alcuni illuminati cittadini per portare a compimento opere concrete e di sicuro impatto a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Scopo primario della Fondazione Cristo Re E.T.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Fondazione CR Firenze è una fondazione di origine bancaria, un ente senza scopo di lucro che persegue l’interesse sociale attraverso un attento programma di investimenti e…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Fondazione Cassa dei Risparmi di Forlì è una fondazione di origine bancaria.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Assifero is the national association of grant-making foundations and private institutional philanthropy that aims at building, strengthening and promoting a more informed…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondazione Sviluppo e Crscita CRT was founded in 2007 through an initiative of Fondazione CRT.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Fondazione della Comunità Bergamasca è un’istituzione di diritto privato nata nel su iniziativa di Fondazione Cariplo, costituita col preciso intento di essere sempre più…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Fondazione Comunitaria del Varesotto ha iniziato ad operare nel 2002 con l’intento di migliorare la qualità della vita della Comunità promuovendo una cultura della donazione.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Unipolis is the corporate foundation of the Unipol Group, which, within the broader strategy for sustainability, represents one of the most important tools for the implementation…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La “Fondazione Francesco Ventorino”, già Fondazione Sant’Orsola (dal 2010 al 2018), ha assunto l’attuale denominazione a partire dal 2018 in memoria della luminosa figura del…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondazione Alia Falck è un ente filantropico nato formalmente nel 2022, che prosegue e rinnova l’attività della passata Fondazione Falck, storica realtà legata al gruppo…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Fondazione Cassamarca è la continuazione della Cassa di Risparmio della Marca Trivigiana.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Our Foundation is mainly aimed at providing our most vulnerable youth the best opportunities for their future.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Fondazione Don Gino Rigoldi nasce per dare continuità alle idee e ai principi che da sempre guidano don Gino nell’incontro con le persone, in particolare con i giovani e con…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Fondazione Comunità Novarese onlus was born in Novara on April 19, as part of the "Community Foundations" project of the Cariplo Foundation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondazione Italia per il dono Ente filantropico ( F.I.Do) è la prima realtà non profit italiana di intermediazione filantropica, capace di operare a livello nazionale e…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Immaginiamo il cambiamento.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondazione Riva crede fortemente che si possa percorrere la strada dello sviluppo sostenibile e della risoluzione dei problemi sociali solo unendo forze e competenze di diverso…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vogliamo costruire il benessere della nostra comunità partendo dai bisogni e desideri di chi è più fragile.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: charitable foundations. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names charitable foundations.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of charitable foundations, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name charitable foundations. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Charitable foundations based in Italy at a glance
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Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Italy, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Italy, over 86 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among charitable foundations, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Italy whose own description of what they do matches “charitable foundations”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names charitable foundations), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among charitable foundations, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Italy are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 319 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names charitable foundations, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many charitable foundations are there based in Italy?
RevenueBase identified 86 charitable foundations headquartered in Italy as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Fondazione Compagnia DI SAN Paolo, headquartered in Torino, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most charitable foundations?
Milano leads with 7 headquartered companies, followed by Torino (7) and Roma (5).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 319 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 86 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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