This is the parent corporation, founded in the City of Los Angeles, California, as of December 21, 1946, and organized as a non-profit, tax exempt religious, educational, and charitable institution for the principle purpose of establishing a World University on a world campus with a world program. Its work over five decades has led to the creation of national offices throughout the world and most importantly to the incorporation of the World University in the State of Arizona. Today the Roundtable has a distinguished professional membership extending into some eighty nations.