Thursday, December 3, 2015
New Disclosures on Mozilla Foundation and its Supporters (Ford, Helmsley)
What’s up at Mozilla? The nonprofit Mozilla Foundation is a high-profile crusader for Internet freedom, and its main operating unit, Mozilla Corp., shares the Firefox browser and mobile operating system with the world. If you’re wondering how Mozilla spends its money, the answers — including a few surprises — have just arrived.
Bear in mind that Mountain View, Calif., Mozilla operates quite differently from the rest of Silicon Valley’s major players. It doesn’t have publicly traded stock, venture investors or a bunch of reporters trying to figure out if it’s worth $1 billion and deserves to be called a “unicorn.” Instead, Mozilla is a mission-driven organization with nonprofit roots, competing surprisingly successfully with many of capitalism’s best-honed machines.
Once a year, Mozilla makes its necessary filings with the IRS — usually right around the Thanksgiving holiday. . . .