Organization

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

Instance Hierarchies: Thing
Intangible
Enumeration
ProviderType::
Organization
More specific Types: Airline Consortium Corporation EducationalOrganization FundingScheme GovernmentOrganization LibrarySystem LocalBusiness MedicalOrganization NewsMediaOrganization NGO OnlineBusiness PerformingGroup Project ResearchOrganization SearchRescueOrganization SportsOrganization WorkersUnion
Enumeration instance of: ProviderType
Enumerated by: OrganizerType
Equivalent Classes: schema:Organization
Additional type: tmc:Accounts

Property	Expected Type	description
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	Text PostalAddress	Physical address of the item.
aggregateRating	AggregateRating	The overall rating, based on a collection of reviews or ratings, of the item.
alumni	Person	Alumni of an organization.
areaServed	Text Place GeoShape AdministrativeArea	The geographic area where a service or offered item is provided.
award	Text	An award won by or for this item.
awards	Text	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.
businessStructure	BusinessStructure
contactPoint	ContactPoint	A contact point for a person or organization.
contactPoints	ContactPoint	A contact point for a person or organization.
correctionsPolicy	URL CreativeWork	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	URL CreativeWork	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.
employees	Person	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.
events	Event	Upcoming or past events associated with this place or organization.
faxNumber	Text	A string representing a fax number.
founder	Person	A person who founded this organization.
founders	Person	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.
hasCredential	EducationalOccupationalCredential	A credential awarded to the Person or Organization.
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.
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	International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities, Revision 4 (ISIC Rev.4) code identifying either an entity’s activity or an industry category (section, division, group, or class).
iso6523Code	Text	An organization identifier as defined in ISO 6523(-1). Note that many existing organization identifiers such as leiCode, duns and vatID can be expressed as an ISO 6523 identifier by setting the ICD part of the ISO 6523 identifier accordingly.
keywords	URL DefinedTerm Text	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	Thing Text 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	Text Language	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.
legalName	Text	The official name of the organization, e.g. the registered company name.
leiCode	Text	An organization identifier that uniquely identifies a legal entity as defined in ISO 17442.
location	Place Text VirtualLocation PostalAddress	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	Organization ProgramMembership	An Organization (or ProgramMembership) to which this Person or Organization belongs.
members	Organization Person	A member of this organization.
naics	Text	North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code identifying either an entity’s classified activity or an industry category (sector, subsector, industry group, industry, or national industry).
nonprofitStatus	NonprofitType	nonprofitStatus indicates the legal status of a non-profit organization in its primary place of business.
numberOfEmployees	QuantitativeValue Text	The number of employees in an organization, e.g. business.
organizerType	OrganizerType
ownershipFundingInfo	AboutPage Text CreativeWork 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	Product OwnershipInfo	Products 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.
reviews	Review	Review of the item.
seeks	Demand	A pointer to products or services sought by the organization or person (demand).
serviceArea	AdministrativeArea Place GeoShape	The geographic area where the service is provided.
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. Including the international dialing prefix.
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.

Properties from Provider

Property	Expected Type	description
activationSubmittedAt	DateTime	The time at which the activation form was submitted.
businessType	BusinessType
existingCustomers	Boolean	Indicates whether a provider has existing customers when applying for activation.
providerSubTypes	OrganizerType PersonType
providerType	ProviderType
statusChanges	StatusChange	Tracks the status changes of an account and the metadata associated with each change.

Properties from Account

Property	Expected Type	description
website	WebSite URL	.

Properties from Thing

Property	Expected Type	description
additionalType	URL	An additional type for the item, typically used for adding more specific types from external vocabularies in microdata syntax. This is a relationship between something and a class that the thing is in. In RDFa syntax, it is better to use the native RDFa syntax - the 'typeof' attribute - for multiple types. Schema.org tools may have only weaker understanding of extra types, in particular those defined externally.
alternateName	Text	An alias for the item.
description	Text	A description of the item.
disambiguatingDescription	Text	A sub property of description. A short description of the item used to disambiguate from other, similar items. Information from other properties (in particular, name) may be necessary for the description to be useful for disambiguation.
identifier	PropertyValue URL Text	The identifier property represents any kind of identifier for any kind of Thing, such as ISBNs, GTIN codes, UUIDs etc.
image	URL ImageObject	An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject.
instanceOf	Enumeration	Type to which this subject belongs. Use for membership in a value set (Enumeration), not inheritance. Example: K2 instanceOf mountain; volcano subClassOf mountain.
mainEntityOfPage	URL CreativeWork	Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details.
name	Text	The name of the item.
potentialAction	Action	Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role.
sameAs	URL	URL of a reference Web page that unambiguously indicates the item's identity. E.g. the URL of the item's Wikipedia page, Wikidata entry, or official website.
subjectOf	Event CreativeWork	A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing.
url	URL	URL of the item.

Instances of Organization may appear as a value for the following properties

Property	On Types	description
acquiredFrom	OwnershipInfo	The organization or person from which the product was acquired.
affiliation	Person	An organization that this person is affiliated with. For example, a school/university, a club, or a team.
agent	Action	The direct performer or driver of the action (animate or inanimate). E.g. John wrote a book.
alumniOf	Person	An organization that the person is an alumni of.
attendee	Event	A person or organization attending the event.
attendees	Event	A person attending the event.
authenticator	MediaSubscription	The Organization responsible for authenticating the user's subscription. For example, many media apps require a cable/satellite provider to authenticate your subscription before playing media.
author	Rating CreativeWork	The author of this content or rating. Please note that author is special in that HTML 5 provides a special mechanism for indicating authorship via the rel tag. That is equivalent to this and may be used interchangeably.
bccRecipient	Message	A sub property of recipient. The recipient blind copied on a message.
bookingAgent	Reservation	'bookingAgent' is an out-dated term indicating a 'broker' that serves as a booking agent.
branchOf	LocalBusiness	The larger organization that this local business is a branch of, if any. Not to be confused with (anatomical) branch.
brand	Product Service Organization Person Marketplace	The brand(s) associated with a product or service, or the brand(s) maintained by an organization or business person.
broadcastAffiliateOf	BroadcastService	The media network(s) whose content is broadcast on this station.
broadcaster	BroadcastService	The organization owning or operating the broadcast service.
broker	Service Reservation Order Invoice	An entity that arranges for an exchange between a buyer and a seller. In most cases a broker never acquires or releases ownership of a product or service involved in an exchange. If it is not clear whether an entity is a broker, seller, or buyer, the latter two terms are preferred.
buyer	SellAction	A sub property of participant. The participant/person/organization that bought the object.
carrier	ParcelDelivery Flight	'carrier' is an out-dated term indicating the 'provider' for parcel delivery and flights.
ccRecipient	Message	A sub property of recipient. The recipient copied on a message.
claimInterpreter	Claim	For a Claim interpreted from MediaObject content `sed to indicate a claim contained, implied or refined from the content of a <a href="/vocabulary/MediaObject" class="text-brand-9">MediaObject</a>.`
composer	Event MusicComposition	The person or organization who wrote a composition, or who is the composer of a work performed at some event.
contributor	Event CreativeWork	A secondary contributor to the CreativeWork or Event.
copyrightHolder	CreativeWork	The party holding the legal copyright to the CreativeWork.
creator	CreativeWork UserComments	The creator/author of this CreativeWork. This is the same as the Author property for CreativeWork.
creditedTo	MusicRelease	The group the release is credited to if different than the byArtist. For example, Red and Blue is credited to "Stefani Germanotta Band", but by Lady Gaga.
customer	Invoice Order	Party placing the order or paying the invoice.
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.
employmentUnit	JobPosting	Indicates the department, unit and/or facility where the employee reports and/or in which the job is to be performed.
endorsee	EndorseAction	A sub property of participant. The person/organization being supported.
endorsers	Diet	People or organizations that endorse the plan.
followee	FollowAction	A sub property of object. The person or organization being followed.
fundedItem	Grant	Indicates something directly or indirectly funded or sponsored through a Grant. See also ownershipFundingInfo.
funder	Person Event Grant MonetaryGrant CreativeWork Organization	A person or organization that supports (sponsors) something through some kind of financial contribution.
grantee	DigitalDocumentPermission	The person, organization, contact point, or audience that has been granted this permission.
hiringOrganization	JobPosting	Organization or Person offering the job position.
hostingOrganization	ProgramMembership	The organization (airline, travelers' club, etc.) the membership is made with.
issuedBy	Permit Ticket	The organization issuing the ticket or permit.
landlord	RentAction	A sub property of participant. The owner of the real estate property.
legislationPassedBy	Legislation	The person or organization that originally passed or made the law: typically parliament (for primary legislation) or government (for secondary legislation). This indicates the "legal author" of the law, as opposed to its physical author.
legislationResponsible	Legislation	An individual or organization that has some kind of responsibility for the legislation. Typically the ministry who is/was in charge of elaborating the legislation, or the adressee for potential questions about the legislation once it is published.
lender	BorrowAction	A sub property of participant. The person that lends the object being borrowed.
maintainer	CreativeWork	A maintainer of a Dataset, software package (SoftwareApplication), or other Project. A maintainer is a Person or Organization that manages contributions to, and/or publication of, some (typically complex) artifact. It is common for distributions of software and data to be based on "upstream" sources. When maintainer is applied to a specific version of something e.g. a particular version or packaging of a Dataset, it is always possible that the upstream source has a different maintainer. The isBasedOn property can be used to indicate such relationships between datasets to make the different maintenance roles clear. Similarly in the case of software, a package may have dedicated maintainers working on integration into software distributions such as Ubuntu, as well as upstream maintainers of the underlying work.
manufacturer	Product	The manufacturer of the product.
member	Organization ProgramMembership	A member of an Organization or a ProgramMembership. Organizations can be members of organizations; ProgramMembership is typically for individuals.
memberOf	Organization Person	An Organization (or ProgramMembership) to which this Person or Organization belongs.
members	Organization ProgramMembership	A member of this organization.
merchant	Order	'merchant' is an out-dated term for 'seller'.
offeredBy	Offer	A pointer to the organization or person making the offer.
organizer	Event	An organizer of an Event.
parentOrganization	Organization	The larger organization that this organization is a subOrganization of, if any.
participant	Action	Other co-agents that participated in the action indirectly. E.g. John wrote a book with Steve.
performer	Event	A performer at the event—for example, a presenter, musician, musical group or actor.
performers	Event	The main performer or performers of the event—for example, a presenter, musician, or actor.
producer	CreativeWork	The person or organization who produced the work (e.g. music album, movie, TV/radio series etc.).
productionCompany	MediaObject Episode VideoGameSeries TVSeries CreativeWorkSeason Movie MovieSeries RadioSeries	The production company or studio responsible for the item, e.g. series, video game, episode etc.
provider	Service EducationalOccupationalProgram Reservation CreativeWork ParcelDelivery Trip Invoice Action	The service provider, service operator, or service performer; the goods producer. Another party (a seller) may offer those services or goods on behalf of the provider. A provider may also serve as the seller.
publishedBy	PublicationEvent	An agent associated with the publication event.
publisher	CreativeWork	The publisher of the creative work.
publisherImprint	CreativeWork	The publishing division which published the comic.
recipient	TipAction CommunicateAction PayAction DonateAction ReturnAction GiveAction Message SendAction AuthorizeAction	A sub property of participant. The participant who is at the receiving end of the action.
recognizedBy	EducationalOccupationalCredential	An organization that acknowledges the validity, value or utility of a credential. Note: recognition may include a process of quality assurance or accreditation.
recognizingAuthority	MedicalEntity	If applicable, the organization that officially recognizes this entity as part of its endorsed system of medicine.
recordLabel	MusicRelease	The label that issued the release.
reviewedBy	WebPage	People or organizations that have reviewed the content on this web page for accuracy and/or completeness.
sdPublisher	CreativeWork	Indicates the party responsible for generating and publishing the current structured data markup, typically in cases where the structured data is derived automatically from existing published content but published on a different site. For example, student projects and open data initiatives often re-publish existing content with more explicitly structured metadata. The sdPublisher property helps make such practices more explicit.
seller	Demand Offer BuyAction Order Flight	An entity which offers (sells / leases / lends / loans) the services / goods. A seller may also be a provider.
sender	Message ReceiveAction	A sub property of participant. The participant who is at the sending end of the action.
serviceOperator	GovernmentService	The operating organization, if different from the provider. This enables the representation of services that are provided by an organization, but operated by another organization like a subcontractor.
sourceOrganization	CreativeWork	The Organization on whose behalf the creator was working.
spokenByCharacter	Quotation	The (e.g. fictional) character, Person or Organization to whom the quotation is attributed within the containing CreativeWork.
sponsor	Event MedicalStudy Grant CreativeWork 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.
toRecipient	Message	A sub property of recipient. The recipient who was directly sent the message.
translator	CreativeWork Event	Organization or person who adapts a creative work to different languages, regional differences and technical requirements of a target market, or that translates during some event.
underName	Ticket Reservation	The person or organization the reservation or ticket is for.
vendor	BuyAction	'vendor' is an earlier term for 'seller'.
worksFor	Person	Organizations that the person works for.

Properties from Organization

Property	Expected Type	description
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	Text PostalAddress	Physical address of the item.
aggregateRating	AggregateRating	The overall rating, based on a collection of reviews or ratings, of the item.
alumni	Person	Alumni of an organization.
areaServed	Text Place GeoShape AdministrativeArea	The geographic area where a service or offered item is provided.
award	Text	An award won by or for this item.
awards	Text	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.
businessStructure	BusinessStructure
contactPoint	ContactPoint	A contact point for a person or organization.
contactPoints	ContactPoint	A contact point for a person or organization.
correctionsPolicy	URL CreativeWork	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	URL CreativeWork	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.
employees	Person	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.
events	Event	Upcoming or past events associated with this place or organization.
faxNumber	Text	A string representing a fax number.
founder	Person	A person who founded this organization.
founders	Person	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.
hasCredential	EducationalOccupationalCredential	A credential awarded to the Person or Organization.
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.
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	International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities, Revision 4 (ISIC Rev.4) code identifying either an entity’s activity or an industry category (section, division, group, or class).
iso6523Code	Text	An organization identifier as defined in ISO 6523(-1). Note that many existing organization identifiers such as leiCode, duns and vatID can be expressed as an ISO 6523 identifier by setting the ICD part of the ISO 6523 identifier accordingly.
keywords	URL DefinedTerm Text	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	Thing Text 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	Text Language	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.
legalName	Text	The official name of the organization, e.g. the registered company name.
leiCode	Text	An organization identifier that uniquely identifies a legal entity as defined in ISO 17442.
location	Place Text VirtualLocation PostalAddress	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	Organization ProgramMembership	An Organization (or ProgramMembership) to which this Person or Organization belongs.
members	Organization Person	A member of this organization.
naics	Text	North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code identifying either an entity’s classified activity or an industry category (sector, subsector, industry group, industry, or national industry).
nonprofitStatus	NonprofitType	nonprofitStatus indicates the legal status of a non-profit organization in its primary place of business.
numberOfEmployees	QuantitativeValue Text	The number of employees in an organization, e.g. business.
organizerType	OrganizerType
ownershipFundingInfo	AboutPage Text CreativeWork 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	Product OwnershipInfo	Products 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.
reviews	Review	Review of the item.
seeks	Demand	A pointer to products or services sought by the organization or person (demand).
serviceArea	AdministrativeArea Place GeoShape	The geographic area where the service is provided.
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. Including the international dialing prefix.
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.

Properties from Provider

Property	Expected Type	description
activationSubmittedAt	DateTime	The time at which the activation form was submitted.
businessType	BusinessType
existingCustomers	Boolean	Indicates whether a provider has existing customers when applying for activation.
providerSubTypes	OrganizerType PersonType
providerType	ProviderType
statusChanges	StatusChange	Tracks the status changes of an account and the metadata associated with each change.

Properties from Account

Property	Expected Type	description
website	WebSite URL	.

Properties from Thing

Property	Expected Type	description
additionalType	URL	An additional type for the item, typically used for adding more specific types from external vocabularies in microdata syntax. This is a relationship between something and a class that the thing is in. In RDFa syntax, it is better to use the native RDFa syntax - the 'typeof' attribute - for multiple types. Schema.org tools may have only weaker understanding of extra types, in particular those defined externally.
alternateName	Text	An alias for the item.
description	Text	A description of the item.
disambiguatingDescription	Text	A sub property of description. A short description of the item used to disambiguate from other, similar items. Information from other properties (in particular, name) may be necessary for the description to be useful for disambiguation.
identifier	PropertyValue URL Text	The identifier property represents any kind of identifier for any kind of Thing, such as ISBNs, GTIN codes, UUIDs etc.
image	URL ImageObject	An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject.
instanceOf	Enumeration	Type to which this subject belongs. Use for membership in a value set (Enumeration), not inheritance. Example: K2 instanceOf mountain; volcano subClassOf mountain.
mainEntityOfPage	URL CreativeWork	Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details.
name	Text	The name of the item.
potentialAction	Action	Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role.
sameAs	URL	URL of a reference Web page that unambiguously indicates the item's identity. E.g. the URL of the item's Wikipedia page, Wikidata entry, or official website.
subjectOf	Event CreativeWork	A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing.
url	URL	URL of the item.

Instances of Organization may appear as a value for the following properties

Property	On Types	description
acquiredFrom	OwnershipInfo	The organization or person from which the product was acquired.
affiliation	Person	An organization that this person is affiliated with. For example, a school/university, a club, or a team.
agent	Action	The direct performer or driver of the action (animate or inanimate). E.g. John wrote a book.
alumniOf	Person	An organization that the person is an alumni of.
attendee	Event	A person or organization attending the event.
attendees	Event	A person attending the event.
authenticator	MediaSubscription	The Organization responsible for authenticating the user's subscription. For example, many media apps require a cable/satellite provider to authenticate your subscription before playing media.
author	Rating CreativeWork	The author of this content or rating. Please note that author is special in that HTML 5 provides a special mechanism for indicating authorship via the rel tag. That is equivalent to this and may be used interchangeably.
bccRecipient	Message	A sub property of recipient. The recipient blind copied on a message.
bookingAgent	Reservation	'bookingAgent' is an out-dated term indicating a 'broker' that serves as a booking agent.
branchOf	LocalBusiness	The larger organization that this local business is a branch of, if any. Not to be confused with (anatomical) branch.
brand	Product Service Organization Person Marketplace	The brand(s) associated with a product or service, or the brand(s) maintained by an organization or business person.
broadcastAffiliateOf	BroadcastService	The media network(s) whose content is broadcast on this station.
broadcaster	BroadcastService	The organization owning or operating the broadcast service.
broker	Service Reservation Order Invoice	An entity that arranges for an exchange between a buyer and a seller. In most cases a broker never acquires or releases ownership of a product or service involved in an exchange. If it is not clear whether an entity is a broker, seller, or buyer, the latter two terms are preferred.
buyer	SellAction	A sub property of participant. The participant/person/organization that bought the object.
carrier	ParcelDelivery Flight	'carrier' is an out-dated term indicating the 'provider' for parcel delivery and flights.
ccRecipient	Message	A sub property of recipient. The recipient copied on a message.
claimInterpreter	Claim	For a Claim interpreted from MediaObject content `sed to indicate a claim contained, implied or refined from the content of a <a href="/vocabulary/MediaObject" class="text-brand-9">MediaObject</a>.`
composer	Event MusicComposition	The person or organization who wrote a composition, or who is the composer of a work performed at some event.
contributor	Event CreativeWork	A secondary contributor to the CreativeWork or Event.
copyrightHolder	CreativeWork	The party holding the legal copyright to the CreativeWork.
creator	CreativeWork UserComments	The creator/author of this CreativeWork. This is the same as the Author property for CreativeWork.
creditedTo	MusicRelease	The group the release is credited to if different than the byArtist. For example, Red and Blue is credited to "Stefani Germanotta Band", but by Lady Gaga.
customer	Invoice Order	Party placing the order or paying the invoice.
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.
employmentUnit	JobPosting	Indicates the department, unit and/or facility where the employee reports and/or in which the job is to be performed.
endorsee	EndorseAction	A sub property of participant. The person/organization being supported.
endorsers	Diet	People or organizations that endorse the plan.
followee	FollowAction	A sub property of object. The person or organization being followed.
fundedItem	Grant	Indicates something directly or indirectly funded or sponsored through a Grant. See also ownershipFundingInfo.
funder	Person Event Grant MonetaryGrant CreativeWork Organization	A person or organization that supports (sponsors) something through some kind of financial contribution.
grantee	DigitalDocumentPermission	The person, organization, contact point, or audience that has been granted this permission.
hiringOrganization	JobPosting	Organization or Person offering the job position.
hostingOrganization	ProgramMembership	The organization (airline, travelers' club, etc.) the membership is made with.
issuedBy	Permit Ticket	The organization issuing the ticket or permit.
landlord	RentAction	A sub property of participant. The owner of the real estate property.
legislationPassedBy	Legislation	The person or organization that originally passed or made the law: typically parliament (for primary legislation) or government (for secondary legislation). This indicates the "legal author" of the law, as opposed to its physical author.
legislationResponsible	Legislation	An individual or organization that has some kind of responsibility for the legislation. Typically the ministry who is/was in charge of elaborating the legislation, or the adressee for potential questions about the legislation once it is published.
lender	BorrowAction	A sub property of participant. The person that lends the object being borrowed.
maintainer	CreativeWork	A maintainer of a Dataset, software package (SoftwareApplication), or other Project. A maintainer is a Person or Organization that manages contributions to, and/or publication of, some (typically complex) artifact. It is common for distributions of software and data to be based on "upstream" sources. When maintainer is applied to a specific version of something e.g. a particular version or packaging of a Dataset, it is always possible that the upstream source has a different maintainer. The isBasedOn property can be used to indicate such relationships between datasets to make the different maintenance roles clear. Similarly in the case of software, a package may have dedicated maintainers working on integration into software distributions such as Ubuntu, as well as upstream maintainers of the underlying work.
manufacturer	Product	The manufacturer of the product.
member	Organization ProgramMembership	A member of an Organization or a ProgramMembership. Organizations can be members of organizations; ProgramMembership is typically for individuals.
memberOf	Organization Person	An Organization (or ProgramMembership) to which this Person or Organization belongs.
members	Organization ProgramMembership	A member of this organization.
merchant	Order	'merchant' is an out-dated term for 'seller'.
offeredBy	Offer	A pointer to the organization or person making the offer.
organizer	Event	An organizer of an Event.
parentOrganization	Organization	The larger organization that this organization is a subOrganization of, if any.
participant	Action	Other co-agents that participated in the action indirectly. E.g. John wrote a book with Steve.
performer	Event	A performer at the event—for example, a presenter, musician, musical group or actor.
performers	Event	The main performer or performers of the event—for example, a presenter, musician, or actor.
producer	CreativeWork	The person or organization who produced the work (e.g. music album, movie, TV/radio series etc.).
productionCompany	MediaObject Episode VideoGameSeries TVSeries CreativeWorkSeason Movie MovieSeries RadioSeries	The production company or studio responsible for the item, e.g. series, video game, episode etc.
provider	Service EducationalOccupationalProgram Reservation CreativeWork ParcelDelivery Trip Invoice Action	The service provider, service operator, or service performer; the goods producer. Another party (a seller) may offer those services or goods on behalf of the provider. A provider may also serve as the seller.
publishedBy	PublicationEvent	An agent associated with the publication event.
publisher	CreativeWork	The publisher of the creative work.
publisherImprint	CreativeWork	The publishing division which published the comic.
recipient	TipAction CommunicateAction PayAction DonateAction ReturnAction GiveAction Message SendAction AuthorizeAction	A sub property of participant. The participant who is at the receiving end of the action.
recognizedBy	EducationalOccupationalCredential	An organization that acknowledges the validity, value or utility of a credential. Note: recognition may include a process of quality assurance or accreditation.
recognizingAuthority	MedicalEntity	If applicable, the organization that officially recognizes this entity as part of its endorsed system of medicine.
recordLabel	MusicRelease	The label that issued the release.
reviewedBy	WebPage	People or organizations that have reviewed the content on this web page for accuracy and/or completeness.
sdPublisher	CreativeWork	Indicates the party responsible for generating and publishing the current structured data markup, typically in cases where the structured data is derived automatically from existing published content but published on a different site. For example, student projects and open data initiatives often re-publish existing content with more explicitly structured metadata. The sdPublisher property helps make such practices more explicit.
seller	Demand Offer BuyAction Order Flight	An entity which offers (sells / leases / lends / loans) the services / goods. A seller may also be a provider.
sender	Message ReceiveAction	A sub property of participant. The participant who is at the sending end of the action.
serviceOperator	GovernmentService	The operating organization, if different from the provider. This enables the representation of services that are provided by an organization, but operated by another organization like a subcontractor.
sourceOrganization	CreativeWork	The Organization on whose behalf the creator was working.
spokenByCharacter	Quotation	The (e.g. fictional) character, Person or Organization to whom the quotation is attributed within the containing CreativeWork.
sponsor	Event MedicalStudy Grant CreativeWork 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.
toRecipient	Message	A sub property of recipient. The recipient who was directly sent the message.
translator	CreativeWork Event	Organization or person who adapts a creative work to different languages, regional differences and technical requirements of a target market, or that translates during some event.
underName	Ticket Reservation	The person or organization the reservation or ticket is for.
vendor	BuyAction	'vendor' is an earlier term for 'seller'.
worksFor	Person	Organizations that the person works for.