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Top 24 Public foundations based in Italy
RevenueBase identified 61 public foundations headquartered in Italy as of September 2026 and tracks 847 professional contacts across them, including 316 with verified work emails. Torino is the largest hub.
This list covers public 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 24 largest public foundations based in Italy
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 163 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 | 85 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L’Istituto per la Finanza e l’Economia Locale è una Fondazione istituita nel 2006 dall’Associazione Nazionale dei Comuni Italiani (ANCI) quando, in attuazione del Decreto del…” 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 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Enpaia, today a Foundation with legal status under private law, is the Welfare Institution for Employees and Managers of agriculture” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondazione Brescia Musei è una fondazione di partecipazione pubblico–privata presieduta da Francesca Bazoli e diretta da Stefano Karadjov.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L’Ente Morale Fondazione Marzotto nasce nel 1960 e raccoglie in sé tutte quelle attività socio assistenziali svolte dalle preesistenti “Istituzioni Sociali” volute, sin dal 1935…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 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. | |||||
| 10 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “FHS - Fondazione Housing Sociale - nasce nel 2004 sotto l’impulso di Fondazione Cariplo per rispondere alla crescente emergenza abitativa, attraverso la promozione di iniziative…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L’Istituto Pugliese di Ricerche Economiche e Sociali è stato fondato nel 1968 come associazione tra enti pubblici espressioni del sistema delle Autonomie Locali e funzionali della…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 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. | |||||
| 13 | 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. | |||||
| 14 | 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. | |||||
| 15 | 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. | |||||
| 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 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Ascoli Piceno è un soggetto non profit privato ed autonomo, che non ha finalità di lucro e persegue esclusivamente, per il territorio di…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Fondazione Provinciale della Comunità Comasca onlus è un ente non profit che nasce e vive nel territorio della provincia di Como con lo scopo di promuovere la cultura del dono…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 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. | |||||
| 22 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MUNUS è la fondazione di comunità di Parma nata per promuovere la cultura del dono e far crescere la solidarietà.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondazione Etica è una fondazione nazionale riconosciuta, indipendente e no–profit.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Fondazione Gruppo Pittini è una Fondazione d’impresa che nasce dalla volontà del Gruppo Pittini di esprimere in maniera concreta la propria responsabilità sociale nei confronti…” 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: public 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 public foundations.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of public foundations, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name public 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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Public 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 61 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 public 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 “public 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 public 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 public 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, 316 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 public 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 public foundations are there based in Italy?
RevenueBase identified 61 public 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 public foundations?
Torino leads with 4 headquartered companies, followed by Brescia (3) and Piacenza (3).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
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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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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.