The Tor Project Inc

“The draft form 990 is reviewed by the executive director and cfo and then all members of the board receive a draft for review prior to filing the form 990.”

“The tor project has a board-approved conflict of interest policy, and board and staff members acknowledge each year that they have not engaged in transactions that present conflicts of interest.”

“The executive director's salary is determined by utilizing compensation data for similarly qualified persons in comparable positions at similarly situated organizations. The salary recommendation is reviewed and approved by the executive board, with no members who have a conflict of interest being involved in the process. Substantiation of the deliberation and decision are recorded at that time.”

“The organization's governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements are available to the public by request. The organization's form 990 and audited financial statements are posted on the organization's website.”

“While funding for tor originally focused on basic research to better understand anonymity, privacy, and censorship-resistance, the majority of funding now falls into three categories: development funding from groups like radio free asia and darpa to design and build prototypes based on research done both inside tor and also at other institutions; deployment funding from organizations like the us state department and sweden's foreign ministry; and unrestricted contributions from private foundations, corporations, and individual donors. Following is a breakdown of the tor project's funding sources for the period ended june 30, 2021: funding from us government sources us state dept - bureau of democracy, human rights and labor 1,532,843 georgetown university - national science foundation 224,617 new york university - institute of museum and library services 96,569 georgetown university - defense advanced research projects agency 570,497 us small business administration 384,303 university of pittsburgh 20,421 funding from non-us government sources swedish international development cooperation agency (sida) 367,559 university college london 8,250 funding from corporate sources mozilla 1,500 mullvad 50,000 calyx institute 5,500 the guardian project 1,950 cymru 50,000 duck duck go 25,000 insurgo 5,000 new york times 10,000 brave software 10,000 mcafee - tunnelbear 10,000 goblank 25,000 defcon 10,000 blockchair 10,000 funding from private foundations open source collective 4,287 media democracy fund 250,000 zcash foundation 181,764 ripe 277 stefan thomas charitable foundation 50,000 brewster kahle charitable foundation 25,000 christopher seiwald charitable foundation 30,000 bertha foundation 69,715 digital defenders 11,720 marcos family foundation 12,000 ford foundation 550,000 interledger foundation 2,000 levchin foundation 10,000 individual donations 2,684,390”

“Contract services: program service expenses 990,490. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 990,490. Payroll service fees: program service expenses 31,189. Management and general expenses 3,090. Fundraising expenses 22,314. Total expenses 56,593. Professional fees: program service expenses 79,172. Management and general expenses 7,844. Fundraising expenses 56,644. Total expenses 143,660.”

“Loss on foreign currency exchange -388. Gain from change in vacation accrual policy 103,200. Loss on repayment of disallowed costs -52,212.”