# sponsor

A person or organization that supports a thing through a pledge, promise, or financial contribution. E.g. a sponsor of a Medical Study or a corporate sponsor of an event.

## Expected Types

| Type | Description |
|------|-------------|
| [Organization](https://schema.org.ai/Organization) | An organization such as a school, NGO, corporation, club, etc. |
| [Person](https://schema.org.ai/Person) | A person (alive, dead, undead, or fictional). |

## Used on Types

| Type | Description |
|------|-------------|
| [CreativeWork](https://schema.org.ai/CreativeWork) | The most generic kind of creative work, including books, movies, photographs, software programs, etc. |
| [Event](https://schema.org.ai/Event) | An event happening at a certain time and location, such as a concert, lecture, or festival. Ticketing information may be added via the [offers](https://schema.org.ai/offers) property. Repeated events may be structured as separate Event objects. |
| [Grant](https://schema.org.ai/Grant) | A grant, typically financial or otherwise quantifiable, of resources. Typically a [funder](https://schema.org.ai/funder) sponsors some [MonetaryAmount](https://schema.org.ai/MonetaryAmount) to an [Organization](https://schema.org.ai/Organization) or [Person](https://schema.org.ai/Person), sometimes not necessarily via a dedicated or long-lived [Project](https://schema.org.ai/Project), resulting in one or more outputs, or [fundedItems](https://schema.org.ai/fundedItem). For financial sponsorship, indicate the [funder](https://schema.org.ai/funder) of a [MonetaryGrant](https://schema.org.ai/MonetaryGrant). For non-financial support, indicate [sponsor](https://schema.org.ai/sponsor) of [Grants](https://schema.org.ai/Grant) of resources (e.g. office space). Grants support  activities directed towards some agreed collective goals, often but not always organized as [Projects](https://schema.org.ai/Project). Long-lived projects are sometimes sponsored by a variety of grants over time, but it is also common for a project to be associated with a single grant. The amount of a [Grant](https://schema.org.ai/Grant) is represented using [amount](https://schema.org.ai/amount) as a [MonetaryAmount](https://schema.org.ai/MonetaryAmount). |
| [MedicalStudy](https://schema.org.ai/MedicalStudy) | A medical study is an umbrella type covering all kinds of research studies relating to human medicine or health, including observational studies and interventional trials and registries, randomized, controlled or not. When the specific type of study is known, use one of the extensions of this type, such as MedicalTrial or MedicalObservationalStudy. Also, note that this type should be used to mark up data that describes the study itself; to tag an article that publishes the results of a study, use MedicalScholarlyArticle. Note: use the code property of MedicalEntity to store study IDs, e.g. clinicaltrials.gov ID. |
| [Organization](https://schema.org.ai/Organization) | An organization such as a school, NGO, corporation, club, etc. |
| [Person](https://schema.org.ai/Person) | A person (alive, dead, undead, or fictional). |

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Quoted from Schema.org 30.1, https://schema.org/sponsor, under CC BY-SA 3.0. Served by the Org.AI Foundation at https://schema.org.ai/sponsor.