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! Our sponsorships are divided into levels based on total funding received:
Magnoliophyta (over $1 million)
- You?
Liliopsida (up to $750k)
- An anonymous North American NGO (2008-2010)
Asparagales (up to $500k)
- International Broadcasting Bureau (2006-2010)
- An anonymous European NGO (2006-2008)
Alliaceae (up to $200k)
- You?
Allium (up to $100k)
- NLnet Foundation (2008-2009)
- Naval Research Laboratory (2006-2010)
- An anonymous North American ISP (2009-2010)
Allium cepa (up to $50k)
- More than 500 personal donations from individuals like you (2006-2010)
- Google (2008-2009)
- Google Summer of Code (2007-2009)
- Human Rights Watch (2007)
- Torfox (2009)
- Shinjiru Technology (2009-2010)
Past sponsors
We greatly appreciate the support provided by our past sponsors in keeping the pre-501(c)(3) Tor Project progressing through our ambitious goals:
- 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)
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.