The last few years have been bumpy financially for the Tor Project, but at the end of 2019 and beginning of 2020, we began stabilizing. We made this change in 2017 because following the calendar year meant that our fiscal years were ending right in the middle of fundraising season (December), making it harder to plan budgets. *Reminder: We no longer tie our tax filings and our audits to the calendar year instead our fiscal years run from July through June. This year’s version of the financial transparency post is a bit different than past iterations: we hope that by expanding each subsection of this post and adding more detail, you will have an even better understanding of the Tor Project’s funding, and that you will be able to read the audit and Form 990 documents on your own should you have more questions. Transparency also means being clear about our values, promises, and priorities as laid out in our social contract. This is how we operate in all aspects of our work: we show you all of our projects, in source code, and in periodic project and team reports, and in collaborations with researchers who help assess and improve Tor. In this post, we aim to be very clear about where the Tor Project’s money comes from and what we do with it. Transparency for a privacy project is not a contradiction: privacy is about choice, and we choose to be transparent in order to build trust and a stronger community. We upload all of our tax documents and publish a blog post about these documents in order to be transparent. After completing standard audits for 2019-2020,* our federal tax filings and audit are both now available.
federal law for 501(c)(3) nonprofits, the Tor Project completes a Form 990, and as required by contractual obligations and state regulations, an independent audit of our financial statements.
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