Just a note for those who weren't keeping track back in 'the day' and
   think a project's funding source itself affects project outcomes. Abbie
   Hoffman got the funding for the Cooper Square Free Store, where
   Yippie!'s plans to disrupt the 1968 Democratic National Convention were
   hatched, from a YMCA grant for "Youth Services".
   If you're a 'revolutionary', you're a dead man on furlough anyway and
   the more people use tor, the more cost-prohibitive it becomes for 'da
   feds' to stalk them. I consider anti-tor sentiments to intrinsically
   play into the hands of [insert evil gubmint name here] intel agencies.
--
RR
"Freedom is the capacity to pause between stimulus and response." ~Rollo May

   Tor Project raises over $200,000 in attempt to “diversify” its funding
   Activist group took in about $2.5M in 2014, mostly from US government
   sources.
   As a result of its recent crowdfunding campaign, the Tor Project
   [1]announced Thursday that it had raised over $200,000 from more than
   5,000 individuals over nearly two months.

   The organization also [2]released its 2014 Form 990, the financial
   document that all nonprofits must file with the IRS.

   As of 2014, the organization took in about [3]$2.5 million annually,
   roughly 75 percent of that coming from grants from
   US government institutions such as Radio Free Asia and the State
   Department.

   Shari Steele, the new head of the Tor Project, [4]told Ars recently
   that the organization wants to diversify its funding and, over time,
   become less reliant on government sources of income.

     "I can't deny that there are lots of people within the Tor community
     and lots of people who either are users of Tor or would be users of
     Tor who are concerned about the fact that so much of the money—or
     any of the money—is coming from US government sources," she
     said. "But the reality is that is where the money is coming from.
     And the organization needs money in order to survive. So we're going
     to take this step by step and try to expand the funding sources and
     then there might be conversation about how we do things. But we're
     very, very grateful for our current funding sources."

   [5]http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/01/tor-project-raises-over-2000
   00-in-attempt-to-diversify-its-funding/

References

   1. https://blog.torproject.org/blog/transparency-openness-and-our-2014-financials
   2. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2696858-2014-TorProject-Combined-Form990-PC-Audit-Results.html
   3. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2696858-2014-TorProject-Combined-Form990-PC-Audit-Results.html#document/p17/a272897
   4. http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/01/going-forward-the-tor-project-wants-to-be-less-reliant-on-us-govt-funding/
   5. http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/01/tor-project-raises-over-200000-in-attempt-to-diversify-its-funding/