Corporation

Introduction

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international public-interest non-profit organization where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards that ensure the long-term growth of the Web, and work for the benefit of humanity.

World Wide Web Consortium, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) federal tax identification number 84-4023862 incorporated in the US to provide the corporate legal home for the World Wide Web Consortium.

Note on usage: The full corporate form "World Wide Web Consortium, Inc.” is expected to be used only when referring to the legal entity structure. Read more on how to refer to us.

Board of Directors

The W3C Board of Directors —first seated in September 2022– is the governing body of the World Wide Web Consortium public-interest non-profit organization. The Directors have ultimate authority on W3C's strategic direction, have a legal obligation to ensure that W3C implements its mission to lead the Web to its full potential, and have fiduciary responsibility over W3C as a whole.

Visit the public page of the Board of Directors

Documents of the Corporation

Financials

Candid Seal of Transparency for W3C

2024

  • Form 990 for 2024 (return of organization exempt from income tax)

2023

  • Form 990 for 2023 (return of organization exempt from income tax)

2022

  • Form 990 for 2022 (return of organization exempt from income tax)

Partners

The public-interest non-profit corporation relies on cooperation with Partners who help ensure global participation in the World Wide Web Consortium to help fulfill its mission and support W3C's global footprint. They do so by employing W3C Team members world-wide, but also by participating in research projects, and supporting W3C Members in their geography.

W3C's partners:

W3C Partner definition

A Partner ensures W3C's global presence by providing significant support to W3C to fulfill its mission, leading W3C activities, and facilitating W3C membership engagement in a given geography, and enhances the bridging and harmonization between each Partner's geographical web community in that global web community.

Partners' mission

  • serve as a bridge to their geographical institutional, academic and policy environments
  • provide critical leadership links to counteract global risks of divisions and silos
  • model stability and long term commitment to W3C and the global web community
  • establish institutional, cultural and social anchoring points
  • enable geography-specific fundraising and autonomous exploration of technical topics