private foundation

1. 1.

   a charity that does not receive a major part of its support from the public

   Broadercharity

Questions about private foundation

What does private foundation mean?

private foundation means "a charity that does not receive a major part of its support from the public".

Is private foundation a common word?

private foundation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.