Registry composition
records
Public research infrastructure
2004—2025
Chinese foundations, made researchable.
A traceable, consolidated view of historical RICF records, archived annual reports, and current Ministry of Civil Affairs data—organized around the unified social credit code.
1,198,950
registry organizations
10,956
current foundations
64,261
organization-years of data
11,383
known foundation records
529,398
governance and staff records
Snapshot overview
See the shape of the registry.
Charts use precomputed aggregates from the validated snapshot. They do not download the full registry into your browser.
Annual coverage
2004—2025
Foundations with data
Sector scale
from the harmonized panel
Foundation sector totals
Evidence completeness
organizations per statement
What each year actually reports
Counts organizations with at least one reported value in that statement, so a question can be checked against the data before searching. A year nothing was filed for shows a dash across the statements and the count it was recovered from under Evidence.
Historical profile
source-recorded dates
Organizations by establishment year
Shown from 1980 onward for legibility. Missing, pre-1900, and out-of-range dates are excluded from the line.
Registration geography
registration division
Leading registration regions
Use and attribution
Built for reproducible scholarship.
Ma, J., Wang, Q., Dong, C., and Li, H. (2017). The research infrastructure of Chinese foundations, a database for Chinese civil society studies. Scientific Data, 4, 170094.