Endowment
Visited by 1.5 billion unique devices each month, Wikipedia’s essential role requires the Wikimedia Foundation to ensure the site remains thriving for years to come. When Wikipedia turned 15, the Foundation announced the start of the Wikimedia Endowment, a permanent, separately held, and invested fund that would support the site and its sister projects into….
Financials
source: Charity Navigator Transparency is a core principle of the Wikimedia Foundation, and we apply this to our financial reporting. We are proud to be recognized as one of the most transparent nonprofit organizations in the world. Our annual plan and operating budget are developed through open processes, subject to community feedback and board….
2019 – 2020 Annual Report
Celebrating the people behind free knowledge. Wikipedia started as an ambitious idea: to create a free encyclopedia, written by volunteers, for everyone in the world. It seemed impossible. Yet, over 20 years, Wikipedia has become the largest collection of open knowledge in history. How did it happen? Humans. Wikipedia only exists through the power of….
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