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: deployment funding from organizations like the us state department and sweden's foreign ministry; development funding from groups like darpa and open technology fund to design and build prototypes based on research done both inside tor and also at other institutions; 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, 2024: funding from us government sources: us state dept - bureau of democracy, human rights and labor - 2,121,049 georgetown university - national science foundation - 14,715 international republican institute - 80,028 open technology fund - 340,681 funding from non-us government sources: swedish international development cooperation agency (sida) - 552,387 funding from corporate sources mullvad - 1,402,954 proton ag - 50,000 duck duck go - 25,000 new york times - 10,000 brave software - 10,000 omidyar network - 32,430 open sats initiative, inc - 10,917 google summer of code - 2,000 aisa - australian info sec assoc. - 20,000 word unscrambler - 10,000 funding from private foundations: #startsmall foundation - 1,000,000 zcash foundation - 176,404 craig newmark foundation - 25,000 wasabi wallet -7,500 brewster kahle charitable foundation -15,000 christopher seiwald charitable foundation - 10,000 marcos family foundation -10,000 open society foundation - 25,000 dt institute - open net - 58,000 octant foundation - 68,590 individual donations- 1,102,619”

“Contract services: program service expenses 193,164. Management and general expenses 64,726. Fundraising expenses 75,910. Total expenses 333,800. Payroll service fees: program service expenses 32,027. Management and general expenses 13,568. Fundraising expenses 21,556. Total expenses 67,151. Professional fees: program service expenses 1,793,171. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 68,159. Total expenses 1,861,330.”

“Gain on foreign currency exchange 9,092.”