As titled: An Open Letter to the Cardano Community from IOHK and Emurgo – Charles Hoskinson [in lead of IOHK] and Ken Kodama [Emurgo] publicly pointed out the lack of performance coming from the third entity that forms the project: Cardano Foundation.
Cardano Project
For starters, Cardano [as a project] split up in three entities: IOHK [responsible for developing core protocols that compos Cardano], Emurgo [building partnerships with developers and instigating projects for the Cardano protocol around the world] and Cardano Foundation [to promote the Cardano protocol, to grow and inform our community and address the needs of the community. These are broad aims and cross demographics and borders].
The structure separated this way to make sure that if one entity fails to function it would not take down the whole crypto-project. See more for yourself
here.