The Mozilla Corporation has earned around USD ~500 million in 2023.

The Mozilla Foundation has received around USD ~26 million in 2023 in donation from the Mozilla Corporation (~70%) and other sources (~30%).

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cardanome 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

The Mozilla Foundation does lots of "spreading awareness" but does not contribute to Firefox development.

That is the most vexing part. I want to donate for Firefox development. Not marketing, not side projects, let me just fund the devs. But no, that is not possible.

Blender is a huge success story relying on sponsors and donations, Wikipedia is swimming in money but no we can't just have a free browser.

No we need to have a Mozilla Corporation that lives on Google money for being the controlled opposition i.e. technically avoiding monopoly situation thing. After all CEOs can't get rich on donations, can they?

	▲	forgotpwd16 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Ironically Wikimedia is also throwing money around to side projects, outreach, etc. But luckily for them their products are essentially run by volunteers.

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earthnail 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

For someone not in the loop, can you explain the difference between the two orgs and maybe even explain what each org uses the money for?

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	▲	swiftcoder 5 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The Foundation owns the trademarks, and mostly does evangelism. The (subsiduary) Corporation actually develops the browser (and accepts a bunch of revenue from Google for Search placement)