Notes on Tor Project funding — Broadcasting Board of Governors
Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), a federal agency that was spun off from the CIA and today oversees America’s foreign broadcasting operations, funded Tor to the tune of $6.1 million in the years from 2007 through 2015. (Page updated in May 2017 to reflect Tor's 2015 financials.)
Note: Notes on Tor's Pentagon funding can be found here, while Tor's State Department funding is here.
|
Year |
Amount |
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2007 |
$250,000.00 |
Via BBG’s “International Broadcasting Bureau” |
|
2008 |
$260,000.00 |
Via BBG’s “International Broadcasting Bureau” |
|
2009 |
$270,000.00 |
Via BBG’s “International Broadcasting Bureau” |
|
2010 |
$180,000.00 |
Via BBG’s “International Broadcasting Bureau” |
|
2011 |
$150,000.00 |
Via BBG’s “International Broadcasting Bureau” |
|
2012 |
$937,800.00 |
$387,800 via BBG/IBB contract (the contract totals roughly $1.2 million and runs into next year as well); $150,00 from Radio Free Asia (RFA) “contract”; $400,000 from RFA grant for Tor’s OONI project, which does not appear on Tor’s financial statements. |
|
2013 |
$1,512,734.00
|
$853,600 from BBG/IBB contract
(the contract totals roughly
$1.2 million and appears to spill over into the previous year); $659,134 via several Radio Free Asia "Open Technology Fund"
grants that don’t seem to be reflected on Tor
Project’s financial disclosure forms.
|
|
2014 |
$1,633,000
|
$733,000 via contract from BBG's Radio Free Asia; $900,000 via grants from Radio Free Asia's "Open Technology Fund" that are not reflected on the Tor's Project’s financial disclosure forms.
|
|
2015 |
$886,724
|
Via contract from BBG's Radio Free Asia.
|
|
Total |
$6,080,258 ($6.1 million)
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For more information on the BBG, read: "Internet privacy, funded by spooks: A brief history of the BBG"