· Public charity
Mozilla Foundation
MOZILLA FOUNDATION works with a broad movement of people, projects, and organizations to protect and improve the internet as a public resource.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $712,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,336,028 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,624,028 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k14 grants · $452k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $260k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $100,000 |
| ASPIRATION | $60,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $50,000 |
| ASPIRATION | $50,000 |
| HOWARD UNIVERSITY | $49,000 |
| PRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIVERSITY | $49,000 |
| STILLMAN COLLEGE | $49,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $49,000 |
| WINSTON-SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $49,000 |
| RHIZOMATICA COMMUNICATIONS | $40,000 |
| BETACAMPS INC | $30,000 |
| THE ELEUTHERAL INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| INDIGIGENIUS | $25,000 |
| START SOMEWHERE LLC | $25,000 |
| THE ASSOCIATION FOR PROGRESSIVE COMMUNICATIONS | $20,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $1.6M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 7 regions, $1.3M to organizations and $281k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: PROJECT SUPPORT FOR AI FUND. · SPONSORSHIP FOR THE 2024 DEEP LEARNING INDABA CONVENING. · PROJECT SUPPORT FOR GREEN SCREEN COALITION AND CATALYST FUND.
Stated purpose: PROJECT SUPPORT FOR WEATHER TOOL. · PROJECT SUPPORT FOR KIAZI BORA+ APP. · PROJECT SUPPORT FOR RESPONSIBLE COMPUTING CHALLENGE RENEWAL.
Stated purpose: GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT. · PROJECT SUPPORT TO INTEGRATE RESPONSIBLE COMPUTING AND ETHICS. · PROJECT SUPPORT TO INTEGRATE RESPONSIBLE COMPUTING AND ETHICS
Stated purpose: PROJECT SUPPORT FOR BIAS ASSESSMENT IN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES. · PROJECT SUPPORT FOR TECH FOR FORESTS AMAZONIA. · PROJECT SUPPORT FOR COMMUNITY-LED GEOGRAPHIC DATASETS IN THE AMAZONIAN TIM.
Stated purpose: PROJECT SUPPORT FOR RIGHTS FORUM. · PROJECT SUPPORT FOR RESEARCH ON INFRASTRUCTURE SUSTAINABILITY. · PROJECT SUPPORT FOR TECH & SOCIETY FELLOWSHIP HOST ORGANIZATION.
Stated purpose: PROJECT SUPPORT FOR TECH & SOCIETY FELLOWSHIP HOST ORGANIZATION. · FELLOWSHIP EXPENSES · FELLOWSHIP
Stated purpose: FELLOWSHIP EXPENSES · FELLOWSHIP
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of Mozilla Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $141k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY3× · 2019–2023 · $352k · revenue +73%- ANACCESS NOW6× · 2018–2024 · $315k · revenue +139%
- CFCODE FOR SCIENCE & SOCIETY INC5× · 2018–2023 · $248k · revenue ×26
Funded once
HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $430k · revenue +517%
ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $312k · revenue +153%- PEPAPER EQUATORone grant, 2018 · $310k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
142 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 142 of the 199 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · John S and James L Knight Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Internet Society · The Patrick J McGovern Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Wikimedia Foundation Inc · Democracy Fund Inc · New Venture Fund · Internews Network
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Mozilla Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Lane Arts Council — 14% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Integrated Arts — 3% of income from government
- Code for Science & Society Inc — 2% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.