Andre Yoskowitz
25 Dec 2012 17:18
The non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, the company behind Wikipedia, had an operating budget of just $27 million in the last fiscal year.
Operating as the only non-profit within the world's biggest 40 websites, Wikimedia raised $38.5 million to pay its expenses during the year.
Wikipedia sees 19 billion page views per month, but its budget is just a fraction of the other companies on top of the list, like YouTube, Facebook and Baidu.
For the fiscal year ended June 30th, 2012, Wikimedia received $35 million in donations from 1.1 million donors. Donors who supported with over $1000 was small enough to fit just one page of the company's report.
You can read the full report here (it's worth it, it's only 3 pages): Wikimedia Annual Report