[seeekr]

minor nitpick: "e.V." in Germany is "eingetragener Verein", "registered association" and is a form of association that's extremely common and use for all kinds of things, e.g. local sports groups, interest groups, etc, so "e.V." in and of itself doesn't have anything to do with industry, though as in the above case it can be used that way!

[_Microft]

The Max-Planck-Society [0][1] is also an e.V. and they have a yearly budget in the order of 2.5B€ or so. e.V.s can be very diverse in their nature.

[0] (de) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

[1] (en) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Planck_Society