Tor Project Crowdsources over $200k, Overall, 75% of funding comes from 'da feds'

[Rayzer]

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
announced
<https://blog.torproject.org/blog/transparency-openness-and-our-2014-financials>
Thursday that it had raised over $200,000 from more than 5,000
individuals over nearly two months.

The organization also released its 2014 Form 990
<https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2696858-2014-TorProject-Combined-Form990-PC-Audit-Results.html>,
the financial document that all nonprofits must file with the IRS.

As of 2014, the organization took in about $2.5 million
<https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2696858-2014-TorProject-Combined-Form990-PC-Audit-Results.html#document/p17/a272897> 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, told Ars recently
<http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/01/going-forward-the-tor-project-wants-to-be-less-reliant-on-us-govt-funding/>
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."
http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/01/tor-project-raises-over-200000-in-attempt-to-diversify-its-funding/

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