# Why is Ikea a Non-profit-

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IKEA has a little known secret: the company is a non-profit. Ingvar Kamprad the founder of IKEA created the philanthropic Stichting Ingka Foundation whose mission is to "further the advancement of interior design." Watch the video and learn how Ikea uses its unique business model and nonprofit status to exploit tax loopholes for the benefit of its founding family.

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- Kind: Short
- Year: 2013
- Runtime: 2 min
- By: Minute MBA by OnlineMBA.com
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Why_is_Ikea_a_Non-profit-.webm)
- Licence or status: [CC BY 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Minute MBA by OnlineMBA.com
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/commons/56937539?play=1)