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Mozilla Foundation

MOZILLA FOUNDATION works with a broad movement of people, projects, and organizations to protect and improve the internet as a public resource.

$2.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$5.8MScience & Tech$2.5MCivil Rights$1.6MPhilanthropy$1.5MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.0MArts & Culture$674kYouth Development$560kEnvironment$517kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 18 grants below total $712,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,336,028 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,624,028 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k14 grants · $452k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $260k
$49,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$123M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%URBAN FARMING GUYS: $23k → 15%SAMESAME INC: $15k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
IN
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
DE
NM
KS
TN
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$619k · 38% · 14 grants · 8 people

Stated purpose: PROJECT SUPPORT FOR AI FUND. · SPONSORSHIP FOR THE 2024 DEEP LEARNING INDABA CONVENING. · PROJECT SUPPORT FOR GREEN SCREEN COALITION AND CATALYST FUND.

Sub-Saharan Africa$468k · 29% · 19 grants · 8 people

Stated purpose: PROJECT SUPPORT FOR WEATHER TOOL. · PROJECT SUPPORT FOR KIAZI BORA+ APP. · PROJECT SUPPORT FOR RESPONSIBLE COMPUTING CHALLENGE RENEWAL.

South Asia$186k · 12% · 4 grants · 2 people

Stated purpose: GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT. · PROJECT SUPPORT TO INTEGRATE RESPONSIBLE COMPUTING AND ETHICS. · PROJECT SUPPORT TO INTEGRATE RESPONSIBLE COMPUTING AND ETHICS

South America$177k · 11% · 5 grants · 12 people

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.

North America (Canada and Mexico)$94k · 6% · 4 grants · 5 people

Stated purpose: PROJECT SUPPORT FOR RIGHTS FORUM. · PROJECT SUPPORT FOR RESEARCH ON INFRASTRUCTURE SUSTAINABILITY. · PROJECT SUPPORT FOR TECH & SOCIETY FELLOWSHIP HOST ORGANIZATION.

Middle East and North Africa$44k · 3% · 2 grants · 3 people

Stated purpose: PROJECT SUPPORT FOR TECH & SOCIETY FELLOWSHIP HOST ORGANIZATION. · FELLOWSHIP EXPENSES · FELLOWSHIP

East Asia and the Pacific$26k · 2% · 3 people

Stated purpose: FELLOWSHIP EXPENSES · FELLOWSHIP

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s 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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 13% of Mozilla Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Mozilla Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.7M · 44 repeat orgs$6.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
140

Total granted

$7.7M
$6.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+28%

Still filing today

73%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $141k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureInternationalScience & TechCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2019–2023 · $352k · revenue +73%
  • AN
    ACCESS NOW
    6× · 2018–2024 · $315k · revenue +139%
  • CF
    CODE FOR SCIENCE & SOCIETY INC
    5× · 2018–2023 · $248k · revenue ×26

Funded once

  • HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $430k · revenue +497%
  • ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $312k · revenue +153%
  • PE
    PAPER EQUATOR
    one grant, 2018 · $310k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
2
Orcid Inc

Orcid provides an identifier for individuals to use with their name as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities. we provide open tools that enable transparent and trustworthy connections between researchers, their…

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
4
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
5
AI4ALL

Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.

Youth Development
6
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
7
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
8
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
9
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

—
10
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
11
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
12
University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development

Internet2 promotes the missions of its members by providing both leading-edge network capabilities and unique partnership opportunities that together facilitate the development, deployment and use of revolutionary internet technologies.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fund for the City of New York Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

142 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
130/142
Grantees still filing
98/142
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION: $370,700 · OtherNEW AMERICA FOUNDATIONREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY: $364,800 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERK…UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $312,000 · OtherPAPER EQUATOR: $310,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $281,315 · OtherCODE FOR SCIENCE & SOCIETY INC: $248,170 · Other+106 more: $4,867,197 · Other+106 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $353,599 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSIT…NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $352,215 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYTHE PARTNERSHIP FOR AFTER SCHOOL EDUCATION INC: $250,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $214,800 · EducationALLEGHENY COLLEGE: $209,052 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $204,000 · EducationThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $204,000 · EducationPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $204,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $203,833 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $199,000 · EducationWinston-Salem State University Foundation Inc: $199,000 · EducationStillman College: $199,000 · EducationBowdoin College: $178,268 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $170,000 · Education+36 more: $1,849,635 · Education+36 moreNEW VENTURE FUND: $1,250,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE …HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $430,000 · EnvironmentHIGHLANDER R…+2 more: $72,201 · EnvironmentRHIZOMATICA COMMUNICATIONS: $480,000 · InternationalRHIZOMATI…Women Win Foundation Inc: $450,000 · InternationalWomen Win…ARTICLE 19 INC: $185,100 · InternationalARTICLE 1…DTWO LTD DBA Awana Digital: $100,000 · InternationalDTWO LTD …+6 more: $90,750 · International+6 moreALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $311,500 · Arts & CultureLANE ARTS COUNCIL: $45,000 · Arts & CultureINTEGRATED ARTS: $39,500 · Arts & CultureGRAY AREA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS: $30,000 · Arts & CultureFABRICATORZ FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureINVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS INC: $19,400 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $40,700 · Arts & CultureACCESS NOW: $315,000 · Civil RightsWhose Knowledge Question Mark: $100,000 · Civil RightsCAPITAL OF TEXAS MEDIA FOUNDATION: $39,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR DEMOCRACY AND TECHNOLOGY: $30,000 · Civil RightsAspiration Aspirationtechorg: $210,000 · Community ImprovementTHE ENTERPRISE CENTER INC: $80,000 · Community ImprovementTHE MAYOR'S FUND TO ADVANCE NEW YORK CITY: $50,000 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITY: $48,600 · Community ImprovementTHE ENTERPRISE CENTER: $42,000 · Community Improvement+4 more: $46,000 · Community Improvement
Other$6,754,182Education$4,990,402Environment$1,752,201International$1,305,850Arts & Culture$511,100Civil Rights$484,000Community Improvement$476,600

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $1,250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRHIZOMATICA COMMUNICATIONS: $480,000 over 2y, 55% of budgetWomen Win Foundation Inc: $450,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $430,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetNEW AMERICA FOUNDATION: $370,700 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $353,599 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $352,215 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetACCESS NOW: $315,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $311,500 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTHE PARTNERSHIP FOR AFTER SCHOOL EDUCATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCODE FOR SCIENCE & SOCIETY INC: $248,170 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $214,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAspiration Aspirationtechorg: $210,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetALLEGHENY COLLEGE: $209,052 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $204,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $204,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $204,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION: $203,866 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $203,833 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $199,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWinston-Salem State University Foundation Inc: $199,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetStillman College: $199,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetARTICLE 19 INC: $185,100 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetBowdoin College: $178,268 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $170,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetADELPHI UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPVAMU: $150,000 over 1y, 75% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBucknell University: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSUMER REPORTS INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Learning Exchange: $150,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetTHISISPLACE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetWhose Knowledge Question Mark: $100,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetDATAKIND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDTWO LTD DBA Awana Digital: $100,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetTidepool Project: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAction Research Collaborative Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE ENTERPRISE CENTER INC: $80,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $77,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR PROGRESSIVE COMMUNICATIONS: $75,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCREATIVE COMMONS CORPORATION: $70,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetHACKS HACKERS: $70,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetTHE EARTH GENOME: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Ford FoundationJohn S and James L Kn…Foundation to Promote…Internet SocietyThe Patrick J McGover…John D and Catherine …Pinkerton FoundationBrooklyn Community Fo…Wikimedia Foundation …Democracy Fund IncNew Venture FundInternews Network
The Ford FoundationNY32.5× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mozilla Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mozilla Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 199 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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