---
name: state-ownership-data
description: Extract current state-owned companies, ownership shares, purposes, sectors, and state-founded foundations from the Ministry of Finance tables.
module: riigiosalus.mjs
execution: get
---

# State Ownership Data

Rahandusministeerium publishes what the state owns as three server-rendered
tables: companies it holds shares in, foundations it founded, and non-profits it
is a member of. Public HTML, no login, no browser JavaScript needed.

## Retrieve

```js
const r = await stateHoldings({ kind: "ariuhingud" });
show(r.asOf, r.updated);   // "31.12.2025", "02.07.2026"
show(r.totals);            // { entities, stated, ministries, byMinistry, fullyOwned }
show(r.rows.slice(0, 5));  // nr, name, ministry, share, purpose, activity

show(await stateHolding("Elering"));   // one body: who administers it, what share
```

`kind` is `ariuhingud` (default), `sihtasutused` or `mittetulundusuhingud`.

## Counting

`totals.entities` is counted here over every row; `totals.stated` is the
"Kokku, arv" the page prints about itself. **When they differ, report both** —
a gap means the page is mid-edit, and silently preferring one is how a wrong
number gets an official-looking citation.

The tables are sectioned by ministry, and the sections are ordinary rows. An
entity row starts with its ordinal; a ministry heading does not. Reading them
the same way turns 17 ministry headings into 17 phantom companies.

## Estonian and English are different snapshots

`/riigihanked-riigiabi-osalused/riigi-osalused/ariuhingud` (Estonian) said **24
companies as of 31.12.2025**, updated 02.07.2026.
`/en/public-procurement-state-aid-and-assets/state-assets/state-stakeholdings`
(English, all three tables on one page) said **25 as of 30.09.2025**, updated
02.10.2025. Same ministry, same table, ten months apart.

The module reads the **Estonian** pages only. Cite one language or the other and
say which — a merged count is a number that appears on neither page.

## Return

One row per body with the ministry that administers it, the state's share as
published (decimal commas kept), the stated purpose and field of activity. For
foundations: founders, founding date, articles-of-association goal. For
non-profits: registry code, members, the government decision behind the
membership, and the annual fee.

Always carry `asOf` (the date the shares are measured on) and `updated` (when
the page last changed). Neither is today.

## Limits

- A current snapshot, not a historical API.
- No company financials here. Use the business register for accounts, board and
  baseline entity data.
- `stateHolding(name)` returning `matched: false` means the body is not on any
  of the three lists — a complete answer, not a lookup failure.

## Verify

Require the table's own header (`Äriühing` / `Sihtasutus` / `Mittetulundusühing`
with `Riigi osalus`, `Asutajate arv` or `Registrikood`) and multiple numbered
entity rows. The module throws when no numbered row parses, because a count off
a changed layout would be wrong rather than merely empty. Reject a navigation
shell or a policy-only page.


## Module API
stateHoldings({kind}) -> {source, page, kind, title, asOf, updated, totals, rows, note}
stateHolding(name) -> {source, page, kind, asOf, name, ministry, share, purpose, activity, matched, alsoMatched, note}