Half of the Tor Project's funding now comes from the private sector

guest · Dec 10, 2018

Half of the Tor Project's funding now comes from the private sector
December 10, 2018
https://www.zdnet.com/article/half-of-the-tor-projects-funding-now-comes-from-the-private-sector/

About 49 percent of the Tor Project's funding came from the private sector, according to financial figures released today by the organization.
This is great news for the US-based nonprofit, which for more than a decade has been financed primarily through US government funds, and many detractors have used this detail to question the security of the Tor software and network.

"I should take a brief moment to explain how funding proposals work, [...] "There is never any point where somebody comes to us and says 'I'll pay you $X to do Y'."
"The way it works is that we try to find groups with funding for the general area that we want to work on, and then we go to them with a specific plan for what we'd like to do and how much it will cost, and if we're lucky they say ok," Dingledine added.

Overall, the Tor Project's total revenue has continued its growth, and in 2017 the organization reported a total figure of $4.2 million, an all-time high. The number is up from $3.2 million in 2016, $3.3 million in 2015, and $2.5 million in 2014.
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Tor blog entry:
Transparency, Openness, and Our 2016 and 2017 Financials
December 8, 2018
https://blog.torproject.org/transparency-openness-and-our-2016-and-2017-financials

After completing a standard audit for 2016, our 2016 federal tax filings and audit, along with our 2017 federal tax filings, are available. We publish all of our related tax documents because we believe in transparency. [...]
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Minimalist · Sep 13, 2019

Tor’s Bug Smash Fund: $86K Raised!

At the beginning of August, we asked you to help us build our very first Bug Smash Fund. This fund will ensure that the Tor Project has a healthy reserve earmarked for maintenance work and smashing the bugs necessary to keep Tor Browser, the Tor network, and the many tools that rely on Tor strong, safe, and running smoothly.
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https://blog.torproject.org/tors-bug-smash-fund-86k-raised

guest · Jan 22, 2020

Tor's Bug Smash Fund: Progress So Far
January 21, 2020
https://blog.torproject.org/tor-bug-smash-fund-progress

At the beginning of August 2019, we asked you to help us build our very first Bug Smash Fund. This fund will ensure that the Tor Project has a healthy reserve earmarked for maintenance work and smashing the bugs necessary to keep Tor Browser, the Tor network, and the many tools that rely on Tor strong, safe, and running smoothly. Together we raised $86,081.

We want to share an update on some of the work the Bug Smash Fund has made possible.
So far, we’ve marked 77 tickets with BugSmashFund. As of today, 56 of those tickets have been closed, and 21 of them are still in progress. With this reserve, we’ve been able to fix bugs and complete necessary maintenance on core tor, bridgedb, Snowflake, and Metrics, as well as complete the Tor Browser ESR 68 migration.
Below is a full list of the tickets we’ve closed so far.
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guest · Jul 18, 2020

Tor’s Bug Smash Fund: Progress Since January 2020
July 17, 2020
https://blog.torproject.org/tor-bug-smash-fund-2019-final-update

At the beginning of August 2019, we asked you to help us build our very first Bug Smash Fund. This fund will ensure that the Tor Project has a healthy reserve earmarked for maintenance work and smashing the bugs necessary to keep Tor Browser, the Tor network, and the many tools that rely on Tor strong, safe, and running smoothly. Together we raised $86,081.

We want to share a final update on the work the 2019 Bug Smash Fund made possible.
Over the last year, we’ve marked 93 tickets with BugSmashFund. As of today, 74 of those tickets have been closed, and 19 of them are still in progress. With this reserve, we’ve been able to fix bugs and complete necessary maintenance on our mechanisms for sending bridges via email and collecting metrics data. We’ve also been able to improve tor padding, testing, onion services, documentation, Tor Browser UX, and tooling for development.
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With your support, we’ve been able to allocate time to important tickets, and we look forward to launching our second Bug Smash Fund campaign in August 2020!
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hawki · Sep 1, 2020

"Nonprofit Behind Tor Browser Asks for Corporate Sponsors to Help It Stay Afloat

After a round of layoffs in April, the Tor Project looks to corporate sponsors for financial help, but these benefactors will have no say in the group's decisions, it says...

The first five sponsors are antivirus vendor Avast, search engine DuckDuckGo, secure OS provider Insurgo, Mullvad VPN, and cybersecurity company Team Cymru...

The nonprofit already receives donations from companies including Firefox’s developer Mozilla and DuckDuckGo. However, the newly announced corporate sponsorship program will try to entice more companies to donate in return for some formal perks..."

If you’re a company that donates at least $10,000 to the Tor Project per year, the nonprofit will offer access to its technical staff, who can answer questions about privacy, censorship circumvention, and how to integrate the Tor browser into your own software product. 'Members will also be invited to webinars and exclusive meetings with the Tor Project team to learn about what we are cooking at Tor,' the group said..."

https://www.pcmag.com/news/nonprofit-behind-tor-browser-asks-for-corporate-sponsors-to-help-it-stay

guest · Sep 18, 2020

Tor’s Bug Smash Fund, Year 2: $106,709 Raised!
September 17, 2020
https://blog.torproject.org/tor-bug-smash-fund-2020-106K-raised

Let’s start this post with a rousing THANK YOU to the Tor community!

This August, we asked you to help us fundraise for our second annual Bug Smash Fund campaign. This fund is designed to grow a healthy reserve earmarked for maintenance work, finding bugs, and smashing them—all tasks necessary to keep Tor Browser, the Tor network, and the many tools that rely on Tor strong, safe, and running smoothly.

In 2019, we raised $86,081, half of which we raised in-person at DEFCON.
In 2020, despite the challenges of COVID-19 and event cancellations, you helped us to raise $106,709!
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Despite that, contributions came from all over the world, in all different forms: online, through the mail, and in a multitude of different cryptocurrencies, with individual and organizational campaigns supporting the Bug Smash Fund in a variety of efforts.
Additionally, 60% of all donations came in the form of cryptocurrency. Thank you to everyone from the cryptocurrency community for supporting Tor—you’ve made a huge impact on our ability to find and fix bugs.
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guest · Oct 15, 2021

Tor’s Bug Smash Fund Year 3: $107K Raised!
October 14, 2021
https://blog.torproject.org/tors-bug-smash-fund-107k-raised

Hello, Tor world! We owe you a thank you.

This August, we asked you to contribute to the Tor Project's Bug Smash Fund. We created this fund in order to create a reserve that would help us find bugs, complete maintenance work, and do all of the “dirty jobs” that are necessary to keep Tor Browser, the Tor network, and the many tools that rely on Tor strong, safe, and running smoothly.

Today, I'm here to share the exciting news that you helped us raise $107,672.20 for the Bug Smash Fund this year! Of that total, about 44% came in the form of 10 different cryptocurrencies. Thank you to everyone from the cryptocurrency community for supporting Tor.
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