Organizational Form

The dominant organizational form of minority institutions is defined according to the following categories:

Nonprofit organization
Governmental organizations:
- Public institutions run by central authorities
- Public institutions run by regional or local authorities
For profit organizations

Overall Data

Nonprofits are the most frequent organizational form of minority institutions. The only exception is that of Hungarians in Slovakia. The most numerous organizational form there is of institutions funded by local governments. However, the dominant organizational form in the selected cases is not uniform. In several cases, minority institutions are almost equally split between two main forms, as it is with Russian speakers in Estonia and Hungarians in Slovakia.

Overall number of organizations by form — This bar chart displays the total of each form of organization in each case. You can find the detailed data in Table 1.

This table presents the organizational form of minority institutions. The links in the table will lead to case-specific description and visualizations.

Minority groups	Total	Organizational form
		Nonprofit	Public		For Profit
		Nonprofit	Central	Local	For Profit
Hungarians in Romania	9477	5964	2010	1083	420
Hungarians in Slovakia	3577	1560	6	1988	23
Poles in Lithuania	306	168	132	6	0
Russian speakers in Lithuania	320	175	131	5	9
Russian speakers in Estonia	454	218	11	213	12
Russian speakers in Latvia	497	338	138	3	18

This table presents the organizational forms of minority institutions in proportions. The links in the table will lead to case-specific descriptions and visualizations.

Minority groups	Organizational form
	Nonprofit	Public		For Profit
	Nonprofit	Central	Local	For Profit
Hungarians in Romania	63%	21%	11%	4%
Hungarians in Slovakia	44%	0%	56%	1%
Poles in Lithuania	55%	43%	2%	0%
Russian speakers in Lithuania	55%	41%	2%	3%
Russian speakers in Estonia	47%	2%	46%	3%
Russian speakers in Latvia	66%	28%	1%	4%