THE PECULIARITY OF THE CHARITY FOUNDATION LEGAL STATUSES Prokofeva Ekaterina Igorevna, postgraduate student. <...> E-mail: kira548@rambler.ru Annotation: The paper is devoted to the study of features of the legal status of charities, as one of the legal forms of legal entities established to carry out charitable activities. <...> The paper investigated the current state of regulatory their status under the laws of the Russian Federation and some foreign countries. <...> The author analyzes the sources and expenditure of the order of the property of the charity fund, the specific implementation of its activities. <...> At the same time drew attention to the inadmissibility of the use in the names of other organizational and legal forms of the word "fund". <...> The conclusions about the presence of specific features that characterize charities. <...> При этом обращено внимание на недопустимость использования в наименованиях других организационно-правовых форм слова «фонд». <...>