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Nonprofit open source organizations booming (ITworld)

[Posted March 22, 2012 by jake]

Over at ITworld, Brian Proffitt looks into revenue and salaries at various open source non-profit organizations. "With a revenue of $1,934,659, the Mozilla Foundation ranked fourth of the eighteen FLOSS-related non-profits researched for this report. But with a net cash flow loss of $1,333,815 for the 2010 fiscal year, the Mozilla Foundation was next to last on money lost for the year. [...] All of this information was obtained from the Federal income tax forms all U.S. non-profits are required to file with the IRS. Specifically, Form 990 (or the 990-EZ when applicable). Thirteen of the non-profits have publicly available information for their 2010 fiscal years, with the other five's information only up to date to their respective 2009 fiscal years."

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Posted Mar 22, 2012 20:18 UTC (Thu) by kripkenstein (subscriber, #43281) [Link]

It's Eich, not Etch (3 times).

Nonprofit open source organizations booming (ITworld)

Posted Mar 22, 2012 23:40 UTC (Thu) by bkp (guest, #53019) [Link]

You're absolutely right. My fault completely, and the misspelling is corrected. Apologies to Mr. Eich.

BKP

Nonprofit open source organizations booming (ITworld)

Posted Mar 22, 2012 20:51 UTC (Thu) by bjartur (guest, #67801) [Link]

The 14,7% public funding of Mozilla Foundation came as a surprise to me, considering the vast income of Mozilla Corp. But then again, Mozilla Corp. pays many of Mozilla's greatest expenses itself; paying less than $2 million to Mozilla Foundation out of its $48 million expenses. corporation spends. Accept my math with a grain of salt, but I estimate Mozilla Foundation receives little over 2% of Mozilla corp. $91.3 million revenue. Thus a sum of the revenue of Mozilla Foundation, even if the fourth highest of US free software non-profits, is quite misleading.

Software Freedom Conservancy, on the other hand, is rightly only 45.3% funded by public support. Presumably, it is mostly funded by its quite-fewer-than-fifty members.