Mozilla org

Mozilla.org is the nonprofit organization created to steward the long-term success of the Mozilla Project and ensure that the different parts of Mozilla collectively advance the Mozilla Manifesto and Mozilla's mission.

What is the Mozilla Project?

The Mozilla Project is a global community of people who believe that openness, innovation, and opportunity are key to the continued health of the internet. We have worked together since 1998 to ensure that the internet is developed in a way that benefits everyone.

Today the organizations within the Mozilla Project include: the Mozilla Foundation, which champions our mission through philanthropic risk capital; Mozilla Corporation, which makes Firefox; MZLA, which makes Thunderbird; Mozilla Ventures, which invests in responsible tech startups; Mozilla.ai, which creates open source AI developer tools; Mozilla Data Collective, a data sharing platform for human agency and fair value exchange.

Mozilla.org coordinates this whole family of organizations as well as community initiatives that support the Mozilla mission.

What does Mozilla.org actually do?

Mozilla.org acts like an endowment, managing Mozilla's assets and investments to ensure they are used to advance the vision outlined in the Mozilla Manifesto. In this role, it shapes long term strategy, allocates funding and manages Mozilla’s brands. Ultimately, its job is to enable the success of all of Mozilla’s organizations in the pursuit of the overall nonprofit mission.

Why was Mozilla.org created?

As the web and the world changes, the Mozilla Project has expanded to include not only a browser company and a charitable foundation but also a venture fund and a number of new companies focused on building open, trustworthy AI. Looking to the decades ahead, Mozilla will need this full range of organizations to advance its mission of keeping the internet open and accessible for all. And, it will need to use these tools in a strategic and orchestrated way.

Since 2022, Mozilla has been in an active process evolving what we do, growing our portfolio to be stronger technically, financially and globally.

This growth strategy is meant to ensure Mozilla’s financial stability — and our mission impact. If we want to make the vision in the Mozilla Manifesto real in the current era, we need to do both of these things in a deeply integrated way.

In 2025, Mozilla announced a 3-year portfolio strategy to allow for more flexibility to achieve these goals — and began to build a small Mozilla.org team incubated in the Foundation to drive this work.

As of June 2026, Mozilla.org has been granted 501(c)(3) status and is fully operational. Its role is to oversee strategy, allocate resources, make investments and manage the brand across the Mozilla family of organizations. The Mozilla.org team incubated at Mozilla Foundation has now fully moved to the new organization.

How do Mozilla.org and Mozilla Foundation relate?

Mozilla.org remains within the umbrella of the 501(c)(3) Mozilla Foundation. It is set up to enable the Mozilla Foundation to meet its highest and best philanthropic purposes by running the Mozilla portfolio of organizations on its behalf. Mozilla.org owns the Mozilla operating subsidiaries and the Mozilla trademarks, and is responsible for long term portfolio and brand strategy across the Mozilla family. It also provides an annual operating grant to Mozilla Foundation and allocates capital to other Mozilla activities. Mozilla Foundation remains the philanthropic grantmaker of the Mozilla Project. It also appoints the majority of Mozilla.org board members and consolidates Mozilla.org for financial reporting purposes.

Is Mozilla still non-profit owned?

Yes! All Mozilla organizations within the Mozilla family are either nonprofits themselves or directly non-profit owned. Mozilla will always remain non-profit owned and controlled.

What is the Mozilla Project currently focused on?

Over the first half of 2025, Mozilla developed a Portfolio Strategy for 2026 - 2028. Its key focus is:

• Positioning Mozilla to ‘do for AI what we did for the web.’
• Creating a double bottom line framework (mission + money) for all of Mozilla.
• Focusing Mozilla's efforts in three areas: 1. open source AI for developers; 2. trusted AI experiences for consumers; and 3. public interest tech by and for everyone.

What is the Mozilla Leadership Council?

The Executive Leadership Council includes the top leaders of each organization in the Mozilla family, as well as the Mozilla.org Executive Team. Along with our Boards of Directors, the Executive Leadership Council works collaboratively to ensure effective day-to-day coordination across Mozilla, and to drive Mozilla’s growth and progress as a double bottom line enterprise (more info below).

Mozilla’s structure also includes other working groups to ensure collaboration across the Mozilla family, including a Tech Council and Communications Council.

Leadership

Board and Team

The Mozilla.org Board oversees strategy and resource allocation across the portfolio. Mozilla.org Board members are:

• Alondra Nelson
• Bob Lisbonne
• Edwin Macharia
• Helen King-Turvey
• Jane Silber
• Kerry Cooper
• Kristin Skogen Lund
• Nicole Wong
• Zain Habboo

Mozilla.org is supported by a Mozilla-wide executive team including Mark Surman (President), Amy Keating (COO) and Raffi Krikorian (CTO). This team is housed with Mozilla Management Company, a public benefit corporation wholly owned by Mozilla.org that is designed to support organizations across the Mozilla family.

Executive Leadership Council

The Executive Leadership Council includes the top leaders of each organization in the Mozilla portfolio, as well as the Mozilla-wide Executive Team.

Along with our Boards of Directors, the Executive Leadership Council works collaboratively to ensure effective day-to-day coordination across Mozilla, and to drive Mozilla’s growth and progress as a double bottom line enterprise. It meets monthly on topics related to:

1. Strategic topics alignment: Aligning with each other and Mozilla.org on Mozilla-level strategy and initiatives.
2. Decision-Making: Making critical decisions on major initiatives, resource allocation and risk management.
3. Policy Approval: Reviewing and approving key policies and procedures that govern the organization's operations.
4. Common pain points: Discuss common needs and pain points.
5. External Representation: Representing Mozilla to external stakeholders, including donors, partners, and the public.

Members of the Executive Leadership Council include: Mark Surman, President Mozilla; Nabiha Syed, Executive Director Mozilla Foundation; Anthony Enzor-DeMeo, CEO Mozilla Corporation; Ryan Sipes, CEO MZLA; Mohamed Nanabhay, Managing Director Mozilla Ventures; John Dickerson, CEO Mozilla.ai; EM Lewis-Jong, Founder & CEO Mozilla Data Collective; Amy Keating, COO Mozilla; and Raffi Krikorian, CTO for Mozilla.

Tech Council

Mozilla's Technology Council brings together senior technologists from across the portfolio, including Firefox, Mozilla.ai, MZLA, Mozilla Foundation, Mozilla Ventures, and Mozilla.org. The council meets monthly, with async collaboration via Slack between meetings.

The group exists to:

• Surface signals: Identify the technology shifts that will matter to Mozilla and the web over the next 18-24 months, before they're obvious and fully formed. The council maintains a technology radar built from themes contributed by members across the portfolio.
• Share across the portfolio: Create a space for senior technologists to demo prototypes, share what their teams are working on, and get feedback across organizational boundaries.
• Run a research pipeline: Between meetings, track signals across the council's active themes, publish regular digests to the Slack channel, and do deep dives on topics surfaced by council members.
• Inform strategy: Produce artifacts, starting with theme documents and working toward a publishable radar, that help product managers, engineers, and leadership across Mozilla understand what the technologists are seeing on the horizon.

This effort is led by Mozilla CTO Raffi Krikorian, with Matt Harris running the research and coordination process.

Communications Council

Mozilla.org’s Communications + Brand Council aims to drive alignment on communications, brand and marketing across the Mozilla portfolio.

The group exists to:

• Drive alignment: Coordination and shared awareness of each operating organization's communications, brand and marketing activities and ensure each org is “in the loop” about communications.

Develop infrastructure: Building and maintaining light cross Mozilla infrastructure to help ensure effective communications and brand coordination.

• “Air traffic control”: Raising and addressing in real time overlapping announcements, avoiding and mitigating crossed wires, missed signals and conflicts; developing processes for shared management and access to digital properties; resolving or addressing conflicting messaging.
• Identifying opportunities and areas for collaboration: Brainstorming and identifying areas where operating orgs and Mozilla.org can work together, from message testing and research to brand campaigns to shared media opportunities.
• Informing strategy: Discussing strategy and priorities as Mozilla.org shapes its long-term role, e.g., themes and approach to thought leadership; website design next phase; structure of Mozilla.org; etc.

The Communications Council consists of representatives from each Mozilla organization, with a focus on communications leads, and meets bi-weekly to surface communications issues and to drive coordination. This effort is led by Ben Wyskida.

Background

Mozilla.org emerged out of a multi year process that asked the question: how can Mozilla continue to stand up for the open internet that it helped to build, and also shape the future of the internet in the AI era?

Key milestones in this process include:

2021 Mozilla’s leadership is thinking big about Mozilla’s next chapter. Initial proposals are developed for the creation of Mozilla Ventures and Mozilla.ai; Mozilla increases focus on innovation across the portfolio.

2022 Vision for the future of Mozilla takes shape. Mozilla Foundation adds four new Board members to help steward the growth strategy. Mozilla begins growing our capabilities to respond to new challenges – Mozilla Ventures launched in late 2022 and Mozilla.ai in early 2023.

2023 Mozilla’s Board of Directors jointly refine growth strategy goals: Expand our scope and update our story; Show that open source AI can be trustworthy AI; Grow financial ambition to (re)invest in impact; Cultivate a diverse global community.

2024 Mozilla.org brand is refreshed and the website redesigned. Focus is on making sure that open source wins again in the AI era.

2025 Mozilla announces a new leadership model at Board and executive levels. Mozilla.org is created and the first Mozilla-wide portfolio strategy is launched.

2026 Mozilla.org receives 501(c)(3) status and takes on the stewardship of the Mozilla Project as well as ownership of companies and trademarks held by Mozilla Foundation.