California · 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. We strive to keep the internet open and accessible to all, and to promote more trustworthy tools, innovation, and practices online.
- $2.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 18
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 65%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $712k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $49,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 67
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $123M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 65% of the organizations Mozilla Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 71% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 15 | $562k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $3.2M | 65% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $585k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $2.1M | 41% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $650k | 65% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $2.7M | 77% |
| FY2018 | 46 | $3.0M | 80% |
| FY2017 | 67 | $1.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhizomatica Communications | $480,000 | 2 | 55% |
| Women Win Foundation Inc | $450,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Highlander Research & Education Center Inc | $430,000 | 1 | 11% |
| New America Foundation | $370,700 | 5 | 0% |
| Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | $364,800 | 3 | n/a |
| Northeastern University | $352,215 | 3 | 0% |
| Access Now | $315,000 | 6 | 1% |
| University of Utah | $312,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Allied Media Projects Inc | $311,500 | 1 | 4% |
| Paper Equator | $310,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 189 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Mozilla Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 114 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
About Mozilla Foundation
- How much does Mozilla Foundation give?
- Mozilla Foundation reported 18 itemized grants totaling $712,000, out of $2,336,028 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 67 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Mozilla Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (36%), Science & Tech (15%), Civil Rights (10%).
- Who are Mozilla Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Rhizomatica Communications ($480k), Women Win Foundation Inc ($450k), Highlander Research & Education Center Inc ($430k).
- Does Mozilla Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mozilla Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ford Foundation, John S and James L Knight Foundation, Foundation to Promote Open Society.
- Where is Mozilla Foundation based?
- Mozilla Foundation is based in CA.
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