Mozilla Organizations

There are several organizations that support the Mozilla community and Mozilla’s principles. They include the non-profit Mozilla Foundation as well as the wholly owned taxable subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. Mozilla considers itself a hybrid organization, combining non-profit and market strategies to ensure the Internet remains a shared public resource. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/organizations/

Mozilla Foundation

• is a non-profit
• In 2023, revenue included $7.8M in donations from the public, grants from foundations, and government funding, as well as $18.6 million in royalties from the Corporation and other Mozilla entities, which was reinvested into the Foundation’s charitable programs.
• In FY23, MoFo invested $26 million into three main program areas.
  • $17.2 million went towards leadership development through grantmaking, supporting fellows and awardees working at the intersection of AI and climate justice, public policy, ethics, art and a range of other topics.
  • We allocated $6.2 million towards movement building, investing in campaigns and our signature MozFest events.
  • We also invested $2.6 million in agenda-setting, supporting research on issues at the intersection of technology and society, and propelling them into public conversation. All of this tied back to the Foundation’s overall focus on trustworthy AI.
  • I can't find a specific breakdown of the projects/funding in each of these areas.
• led by Executive Director Nabiha Syed

MZLA Technologies Corporation is a for-profit corporation, subsidiary of the Foundation

• pays developers of Thunderbird - Thunderbird is an independent, community-driven project that is managed and overseen by the Thunderbird Council, which is elected by the Thunderbird community.
• revenue: 2023 - $8.6 million from Thunderbird users. Nothing from Mozilla?

Mozilla Corporation is a subsidiary of the Foundation

• updates/distributes Firefox, Mozilla VPN/etc, Pocket....
• revenue: $593M in 2022; 81% payola from Google; $425M expenses (incl $220M software development (and the $18.6M kicked up to the Foundation?))
• has CEO with huge salary (Mitchell Baker's salary was $7M in 2022)
• The Mozilla Corporation is governed by its Board of Directors... Mitchell Baker, Laura Chambers, Karim Lakhani, Bob Lisbonne, Hugh Molotsi, Kristin Skoken Lund