Donating for Privacy

Every year since 2011, DuckDuckGo has been donating to organizations that contribute to our vision of raising the standard of trust online.

Over $2,650,000 in DuckDuckGo privacy donations

2020 $750,000

$200,000 Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP)
$150,000 Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
$50,000 European Digital Rights (EDRi)
$50,000 Public Knowledge
$50,000 The Markup
$25,000 Algorithmic Justice League
$25,000 Bits of Freedom

$25,000 Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2)
$25,000 Competition Law Forum
$25,000 Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA)
$25,000 Freiheitsrechte (GFF)
$25,000 Open Rights Group
$25,000 Restore The Fourth
$25,000 TechFreedom
$25,000 Tor Project

2019 $600,000

$200,000 Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP)
$110,000 Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
$85,000 Freedom of the Press Foundation
$30,000 Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT)
$25,000 CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory (CUPS)
$25,000 Tor Project

$25,000 European Digital Rights (EDRi)
$25,000 TechFreedom
$25,000 Demand Progress Education Fund
$25,000 European Center for Digital Rights (noyb)
$25,000 Cracked Labs

2018 $500,000

$76,571 Demand Progress
$68,012 Freedom of the Press Foundation
$48,022 Center for Democracy & Technology
$44,664 Fight for the Future
$38,081 Tails
$33,810 New Media Rights
$32,904 Restore the Fourth
$22,816 Tor Project
$18,895 Terms of Service; Didn’t Read
$14,325 The Calyx Institute
$14,236 Let’s Encrypt

$11,561 Riseup Labs
$11,533 Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF)
$11,089 Internet Freedom Festival
$10,903 Access Now
$10,401 Emerald Onion
$9,079 Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
$6,634 Freenet Project
$6,929 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
$5,273 Bits of Freedom
$4,265 World Privacy Forum

2017 $400,000

$200,000 Freedom of the Press Foundation
$75,000 World Privacy Forum
$29,000 Open Whisper Systems
$25,000 Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
$25,000 Tor Project
$25,000 The Electronic Frontier Foundation
$5,000 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
$5,000 Access Now

$2,500 The Calyx Institute
$2,500 Center for Democracy & Technology
$1,000 Restore the Fourth
$1,000 Center for Digital Democracy (CDD)
$1,000 Patient Privacy Rights
$1,000 Online Trust Alliance (OTA)
$1,000 Tech Freedom
$1,000 Demand Progress

2016 $225,000

$25,000 SecureDrop
$25,000 Freenet
$25,000 OpenBSD Foundation
$25,000 CrypTech
$25,000 Tor Project

$25,000 Fight for the Future
$25,000 VeraCrypt
$25,000 LEAP
$25,000 GPGTools

2015 $125,000

$25,000 SecureDrop
$25,000 Privacy Badger
$25,000 GPGTools

$25,000 Tails
$25,000 Girl Develop It

2014 $40,000

$10,000 SecureDrop
$10,000 NoiseTor
$5,000 Lavabit

$5,000 Riseup
$5,000 Mailpile
$5,000 I2P

2013 $20,000

$2,000 NoScript
$2,000 Cryptocat
$2,000 Javascript Blocker

2012 $10,000+

2011 $1,909

$482 nginx
$475 FreeBSD
$238 Tor Project

$238 Clamwin
$238 Tahoe-LAFS
$238 OpenSSH