Tor: Sponsors
The Tor Project's diversity of users means we have a diversity of funding sources too — and we're eager to diversify even further!
Thank you to all the people and groups who have made Tor possible so far, and thank you especially to the individual volunteers who have made non-financial contributions: coding, testing, documenting, educating, researching, and running the relays that make up the Tor network.
Active Sponsors in 2017:
- Tens of thousands of personal donations from individuals like you (2006-present)
- Google Summer of Code (2007-2014 and 2016-2017)
- Mozilla (2016-2017)
- Open Technology Fund (2012-2017)
- Media Democracy Fund (2016-2017)
- National Science Foundation joint with Princeton University (2012-2018)
- National Science Foundation via University of Minnesota (2013-2018)
- National Science Foundation joint with Georgetown (2015-2018)
- National Science Foundation joint with Rochester Institute of Technology (2016-2019)
- National Science Foundation joint with University of Illinois at Chicago (2016-2018)
- Fastly (2016-2017)
- SRI International (2011-2017)
- US Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (2013-2018)
- Team Cymru (2009-present)
Past sponsors
We greatly appreciate the support provided by our past sponsors in keeping the Tor Project progressing through our ambitious goals:
- Federal Foreign Office of Germany (2015)
- Hivos/The Digital Defenders Partnership (2014-2015)
- Reddit (2015)
- The Ford Foundation (2013-2014)
- Disconnect (2014)
- Freedom of the Press Foundation (2014)
- The Knight Foundation (2012-2013)
- Sida - Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (2010-2013)
- An anonymous North American NGO (2008-2013)
- Broadcasting Board of Governors (2006-2013)
- National Science Foundation via Drexel University (2009-2011)
- Access Now (2012)
- Google (2008-2009)
- Human Rights Watch (2007)
- Torfox (2009)
- Shinjiru Technology (2009-2011)
- National Christian Foundation (2010-2012, 2014)
- NLnet Foundation (2008-2009)
- Naval Research Laboratory (2006-2010)
- Internews Europe (2006-2008)
- Electronic Frontier Foundation (2004-2005)
- DARPA and ONR via Naval Research Laboratory (2001-2006)
- Cyber-TA project (2006-2008)
- Bell Security Solutions Inc (2006)
- Omidyar Network Enzyme Grant (2006)
- NSF via Rice University (2006-2007)
This sponsors page is based upon un-audited and un-reviewed financial and in-kind donations, contract, and other data. Further details about our audited and reviewed funding can be found on our Financial Reports page.
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