> Well, wordpress.org runs at a large loss

Someone's getting paid something for the hosting referrals here:

https://wordpress.org/hosting/

I quote from the page:

> If you do decide to go with one of the hosts below and click through from this page, some will donate a portion of your fee back

This has more info on the topic

https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2024/10/28/matt-mullen...

The Foundation gives its subsidiary money, just like any other parent company can.

Whether or not Wordpress.org makes money is irrelevant to its for/non profit status. It’s a legal technicality due to IRS tax exemption rules for unrelated business activities. They have to put those operations into a separate subsidiary, even if it never makes any profit.

If the nonprofit can’t afford to run Wordpress.org then the whole nonprofit was a farce anyway.

Where does the Foundation get such money? In 2022 it had revenues of $23k.[1]

[1] https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/205...

So it was a farce to begin with. Matt clearly had no intention of letting it be an independent foundation.