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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

FUTO

FUTO is committed to funding open source projects that champion digital freedom, develop privacy-focused applications, and advocate for increased user autonomy. FUTO supports projects such as Tor, that enable others to challenge technological control and censorship.

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.

Heising-Simons Foundation

The Heising-Simons Foundation is a family foundation based in Los Altos and San Francisco, California. The Foundation works with its many partners to advance sustainable solutions in climate and clean energy, enable groundbreaking research in science, enhance the education of our youngest learners, and support human rights for all people. Through its technology and society line of grantmaking, Heising-Simons Foundation provided a grant for technical safeguards supporting journalists, whistleblowers, and human rights activists.

Ethereum Foundation

The Ethereum Foundation is a non-profit that supports the Ethereum ecosystem. They are a part of a larger community of organizations and individuals that fund protocol development, grow the ecosystem, and advocate for Ethereum. The Ethereum Foundation awarded a grant to Tor to assist developers in advancing network-level privacy for Ethereum. This work includes new features and documentation designed to benefit the broader ecosystem of tools integrating Tor.

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."

Proton VPN