On Mon, 6 Dec 2021 at 14:30, Andreas Kolbe jayen466@gmail.com wrote:
According to its certificate of incorporation, available in the filing history, the "Jimmy Wales Foundation" is a "private company limited by guarantee". This is quite different from the sort of charitable foundation the Wikimedia Foundation is.
The WMF is a 501(c)(3) organization a concept that doesn't really exist under UK law (registered charity is rather narrower). If you wanted to create a rough 501(c)(3) analogue under uk law (although differences in tax law mean its going to be very rough) then your options would be a Community Interest Company (but that results in a much tighter restriction on political activities than 501(c)(3) see https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1788/part/2/made ) or a private company limited by guarantee.
Since this discussion of UK company law is largely irrelivant to foundation issues I suggest there is little point in continuing things on this mailing list.