Open Technology Fund

OTF strives to support technology-centric solutions for anyone affected by censorship, surveillance, and internet blocking in order to protect fundamental human rights. OTF currently supports multiple projects related to helping people use Tor and Tails to circumvent censorship and protect themselves from surveillance.

Sida - Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

Sida is a government agency working on behalf of the Swedish parliament and government, with the mission to reduce poverty in the world. Through their work and in cooperation with others, Sida contributes to implementing Sweden's Policy for Global Development.

Fastly

Fastly's global edge cloud platform processes, serves, and secures applications as close to users as possible, at the edge of the network. Fastly generously hosts our Tor Browser update downloads that can be fetched anonymously.

U.S. Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor

The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) leads the U.S. efforts to promote democracy, protect human rights and international religious freedom, and advance labor rights globally. DRL currently supports multiple projects related to internet freedom and censorship circumvention.

Craig Newmark Philanthropies

Craig Newmark Philanthropies was created by craigslist founder Craig Newmark to support and connect people and drive broad civic engagement. The organization has provided Tor Project with an unrestricted gift.

Zcash Community Grants

The Zcash Community Grants (ZCG) program funds independent teams entering the Zcash ecosystem to perform major ongoing development (or other work) for the public good of the Zcash ecosystem. ZCG currently supports a project to create an implementation of the Tor protocols in Rust (called “Arti”).

Ford Foundation

The Ford Foundation is an independent, nonprofit grant-making organization and for more than 80 years, it has worked with courageous people on the frontlines of social change worldwide. The Ford Foundation has made a general support grant to the Tor Project.

#StartSmall

#StartSmall is Jack Dorsey's philanthropic initiative to fund global crisis relief, girls health and education, and open internet development. Dorsey transferred $1 billion (28% of his wealth) to #StartSmall in 2020. #StartSmall has made a general support grant to the Tor Project.

Open Society Foundations

The Open Society Foundations, founded by George Soros, are the world's largest private funder of independent groups working for justice, democratic governance, and human rights. The Open Society Foundations support Tor's work to a) deliver digital safety and security trainings to human rights defenders, activists, journalists, former detainees, and the families of these communities in the MENA diaspora and b) enable Iranians to access the Tor network during censorship events.

Wasabi

Wasabi is a privacy-focused, free and open source, non-custodial Bitcoin wallet for desktop that has pioneered several privacy features, including sophisticated Tor integration to protect IP addresses, block filters to protect Bitcoin addresses, and coinjoins to protect transaction history. zkSNACKs, the research and development company behind Wasabi, is a proud founding sponsor of the Onion Service Resource Coalition.

Open Net Fund

OpenNet.fund (ONF) supports solutions that enable online privacy and provide open access to the Internet towards the overarching goal of improving the free flow of information and the freedom of expression online. ONF has provided a grant to make Tor infrastructure and tooling related to distributing bridges to users more agile, more sustainable, and more resilient against censorship.

OpenSats

Open Sats Initiative, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) public charity which aims to fund Bitcoin-related and Nostr-related free and open-source projects and associated education and research initiatives. Open Sats provided a grant to support two onion service developers.

Power Up Privacy

Power Up Privacy is an advocacy group that funds privacy-related research and development projects. They seek to make maximum impact by identifying key, underfunded areas in the privacy software ecosystem and injecting resources, financial and otherwise, in order to strengthen the necessary infrastructure we need to preserve freedom and human rights.

U.S. Department of State

The mission of The U.S. Department of State is to protect and promote U.S. security, prosperity, and democratic values and shape an international environment in which all Americans can thrive. The U.S. Department of State is supporting a grant to improve censorship circumvention through Tor tools.

eQualitie

eQualitie develops open technologies to promote digital resilience, especially in environments threatened by censorship, surveillance, climate change, and network isolation. eQualitie, through its Breakout Program, seeks to support innovative projects that advance public benefit by promoting secure and unrestricted communications, particularly in regions with restricted access. eQualitie is supporting the Conjure Project which aims to strengthen Tor’s ability to function in increasingly restrictive Internet environments by transitioning Conjure from its current MVP stage to a deployable, real-world solution.

Mullvad VPN

"Contributing to communities and organizations that really strive to improve privacy and integrity online is important for Mullvad. Unfortunately, there are very few. Those that understand privacy, actively work to improve anti-fingerprinting and to protect users against more advanced attacks are even fewer. We believe that the Tor Project is one such organization. We share their values when it comes to human rights, freedom of expression, anti-censorship and online privacy."

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