New Hampshire · Nonprofit
THE TOR PROJECT INC
THE TOR PROJECT INC (New Hampshire) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,672,746 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,571,159). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $10M
What The Tor Project Inc does
Mission
The organization's mission is to provide support and management services to the tor network, which is a group of volunteer-operated servers that allows people to improve their privacy and security on the internet. The organization's users employ the tor network by connecting through a series of virtual tunnels rather than making a direct connection, thus allowing both organizations and individuals to share information over public networks without compromising their privacy. Along the same line, the tor network is an effective censorship circumvention tool, allowing its users to reach otherwise blocked destinations or content. The tor network can also be used as a building block for software developers to create new communication tools with built-in privacy features.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
1) to develop, improve and distribute free, publicly available tools and programs that promote free speech, free expression, civic engagement, and privacy rights online 2) to conduct scientific research regarding, and to promote the use of and knowledge about, such tools, programs, and related issues internationally 3) to educate the general public internationally about privacy rights and anonymity issues connected to internet use, and 4) to carry out and conduct such other activities and programs in furtherance of the foregoing purposes as may be carried out and conducted by a corporation to enable and, with the use of free software, educate the general public about internet privacy and anonymity 5) the tor project is an open source project and benefits from the contributions of many volunteers. During the period ended june 30, 2025, volunteers contributed a value of $643,794 to our work, as follows: 5,142 hours of software development (valued at $411,360) and translation services of 518,134 words (valued at $124,352); cloud hosting services using 12 servers (valued at $108,082); and digicert donations of 26 certificates (valued at $4,344).
$7,245,898 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,245,898.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $7.0M to $11M (+51%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 16% · 2019 42% · 2020 54% · 2021 38% · 2022 51% · 2023 44% · 2024 29% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of THE TOR PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (30% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Isabela Dias Fernandes
Executive director
Board chair
Kendra Albert
Chair (until 9/25) secretary (as of 9/25)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $351k → $2.2M.
12 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE TOR PROJECT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
THE TOR PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
89% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE TOR PROJECT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 87% · 2019 53% · 2020 55% · 2021 39% · 2022 47% · 2023 50% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
44% of THE TOR PROJECT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
59% of THE TOR PROJECT INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5.1M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside New Hampshire, across 14 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
THE TOR PROJECT INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 132 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 132 public benefit nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding THE TOR PROJECT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record.
- National Science Foundation$1.5M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THE TOR PROJECT INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE TOR PROJECT INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE TOR PROJECT INC?
- THE TOR PROJECT INC (New Hampshire) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,672,746 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,571,159). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE TOR PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $12,672,746 in grants to THE TOR PROJECT INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE TOR PROJECT INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,571,159 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE TOR PROJECT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 40 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing