Mozilla Foundation

Mozilla Foundation

Formation	July 15, 2003; 21 years ago (2003-07-15)
Founder	Mozilla Organization
Type	501(c)(3)
Tax ID no.	20-0097189
Registration no.	C2543436
Origins	Mountain View, California
Region	United States
Products	Firefox (Web Browser) Thunderbird (Email Client) Gecko (Layout Engine) Servo (Layout Engine) More
Chair	Mitchell Baker
Executive director	Mark Surman
Subsidiaries	Mozilla Corporation Beijing Mozilla Online Ltd MZLA Technologies Corporation
Revenue (2018[1])	$436 million
Staff (2019)	80
Volunteers (2019)	1000+
Website	foundation.mozilla.org

The Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organization that was created to support and give leadership for the open source Mozilla project. The organization sets the policies that govern development, operate important things that keep Mozilla working and controls trademarks and other intellectual property. It owns a taxable for-profit subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation, which employs several Mozilla developers and sets releases of the Mozilla Firefox. The Mozilla Foundation is based in Mountain View, California, USA.

The Mozilla Foundation describes itself as "a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving choice and promoting innovation on the Internet". Mozilla Japan and Mozilla China are non-profit organizations whose mission is to help promote and deploy Mozilla products and projects.

1. ↑ "Mozilla Foundation and Subsidiary: 2018 Independent Auditors' Report and Consolidated Financial Statements" (PDF). Mozilla Foundation.