SCP Foundation

Hey you guys. I am currently in the process of writing an SCP and an SCP tale and I have a few questions about the Universe.

1. Is the SCP Foundation government owned, publicly owned, or privately owned?
-If privately owned then where do they get the money to do all of the stuff they do?

2. What is the hiring process?
-How do they find people and introduce them to the foundation?

3. Is it possible for salaried personnel to have lives outside of the foundation?
-Family, friends, etc.

4. Is it possible for a salaried staff member to resign from the foundation?
-would they be forced to take an amnestic before leaving?

I understand the possibility that there are no "real answers" to these questions anywhere in the cannon; I am really just asking to be sure.

All of this is my own interpretation, others may think differently.

1. They get money from most governments, especially Western ones. They also own front companies. The front companies make money that the Foundation uses to carry out the whole Secure Contain Protect shtick.
2. D-Class are either pulled from prisons or cloned from prisoners, depending on how many clones the Foundation can afford to make that month. Scientists and engineers are either given jobs straight from college, or, again, cloned from existing researchers and engineers. Soldiers, technicians, and the like are pulled from friendly emergency response, friendly militaries, and front companies, or, once again, cloned from existing stock.
3. Depends on the personnel. Some people are basically property of the Foundation (see clones, D-Class, above). Others maintain cover stories with their friends and family. Some are in-between: they had to make new friends and family, because the Foundation made their old families bury an empty coffin (believing that it's full, of course).
4. Yes and yes. Think of the end of the first Men in Black movie.

As I said, this is personal interpretation. If, as you read more, you decide my answers are dumb, reject them and come up with new ones that make sense to you.

Also, I'm noting that I just realized that someone in the Foundation has to decide, exactly, how much the Foundation spends on clones, which is kind of funny.

They have many ways to produce valuable items and materials (gold, etc.) anomalously in effectively unlimited quantities. As long as they don't flood the market, that also helps.

As I see it, the foundation doesn't need anyone to give them money. They are thoroughly integrated into the markets and financial systems and can siphon off as much as they need for any purpose necessary at any time, even to the point of creating extra money as needed (they aren't going to cause massive inflation on their own). They DO require the participation of various world governments in order to maintain that access, but they take care of financial concerns without having to jump through any hoops or asking permission.

That said, the foundation's financial department would have a lot of work cut out for them making sure said systems worked correctly and that they maintained world market stability, it's not just a matter of "take what we want when we want it and there's no consequences".