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0 pointszobzu11y ago0 comments

When you donate it goes to Mozilla Foundation while search deal money goes to Mozilla Corporation AFAIK.

That means they actually need donations for the foundation to run (but its not 800 employees so its much less money). Legally you can't fund the Foundation with the Corporation money - since that would make 2 Corporation and zero Foundation then :)

I don't know if the opposite is possible (send donations from Foundation to the Corporation) but I suspect it has the same problem/effect.

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bzbarsky11y ago

> Legally you can't fund the Foundation with the Corporation money

The Foundation is the sole owner of the Corporation. The Corporation pays dividends to the Foundation.

Now the amount of those dividends can't be too much if the Foundation wants to keep its nonprofit status. "Too much" is determined by how much people donate: the restriction is on fraction of money that comes from non-donations.

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