Our goal at ZF is to create tools that help sustain open networks, enabling anyone and everyone to protect their own privacy on their own terms. The essence of privacy itself is being able to choose what is or isn't shared with others. Privacy comprises both autonomy and consent; it is essential to human dignity and the healthy continuation of civil society.
The Zcash Foundation has nearly 15 employees that are distributed across the world. They work on various things such as protocol development, protocol security, protocol governance, business development and managing Zcash community events. The ZF team consists of a board of directors, the engineering team and an operations team, more info here.
Zcash Foundation Grants provides the ecosystem with a means to fund projects that contribute to the privacy ecosystem such as Zebra (an independant node implementation for Zcash) & FROST as well as various other projects through Zcash Open Major Grants , now Zcash Community Grants Committee.
The Foundation also holds Zcon, a yearly in-person conference centered on the Zcash ecosystem and supports grassroots, community initiatives such as Zcon Vozes regional specific conferences, the Zcash Foundation A/V Club and various other open community calls and AMA's.
The Zcash Foundation enforces the Zcash Trademark policy per the conditions of it's donation by the Electric Coin Co. which helps "Protect the reputation of Zcash, its associated entities, and the Zcash community" by "identify(ing) official sources of information, reducing the likelihood of fraudulent or incorrect information" and "Identify(ing) official apps and services,reducing the likelihood of fraudulent activities."
The Zcash Foundation is a 501(c)(3) not for profit organization. In addition to their team, they have a board of directors.
The Zcash Foundation receives 5% of the Zcash development fund. Their use of finances can be seen in their quarterly Transparency Reports.