Funding

Independence, diversity, and sustainability are central to Access Now’s ability to carry out its mission, and we rely on the support of a diverse range of stakeholders.

The majority of our support comes from foundations and development agencies, with the rest coming from companies, courts, individuals, and civil society organizations. To ensure the independence, and integrity of our organization, we accept support contingent upon the following non-negotiables:

Access Now does not accept funding that places its staff, partners, supported communities, or mission at risk.
Access Now does not accept funding that jeopardizes its relationship with its partners, stakeholders, or supported communities and networks.
Access Now does not accept funding that compromises its organizational independence, including funding relationships that may influence its priorities, policy positions, advocacy efforts, regions of focus, or direct action work.
Access Now does not accept funding that poses a risk to its reputation more broadly or with respect to specific programmatic areas of work.

To learn about the RightsCon funding policy, click here. For more information on Access Now’s approach to fundraising, transparency, and independence, click here.

All contributions, large and small, go a long way. If you are an individual and would like to donate you can contribute here. Please don’t hesitate to contact us at info@accessnow.org or reach out directly to a member of our staff. Access Now is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization. All contributions are tax deductible.

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Grant	Funder	Date	Amount (USD)
RightsCon Toronto Conference Sponsorship	Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs	April 2018	50,000
RightsCon Toronto Conference Sponsorship	Mozilla Foundation	April 2018	35,000
Program Support – SAFETAG Auditing	Internews	April 2018	23,367
RightsCon Toronto Conference Sponsorship	Automattic	April 2018	10,000
RightsCon Toronto Conference Sponsorship	Dropbox	April 2018	10,000
Core Organizational Support and RightsCon Toronto Conference Sponsorship	Facebook	March 2018	50,000
Tech, Policy, Advocacy, and Grants Program Support	Sida	March 2018	780,500
Program Support and RightsCon Toronto Conference Sponsorship	Global Affairs Canada	March 2018	273,876
Policy Program Support	Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs	March 2018	361,200
RightsCon Toronto Conference Sponsorship	Ford Foundation	February 2018	25,000
Core Organizational Support	Sigrid Rausing Trust	February 2018	137,090
RightsCon Toronto Conference Sponsorship	Twitter	February 2018	25,000
RightsCon Toronto Conference Sponsorship	Verisign	February 2018	10,000
RightsCon Toronto Conference Sponsorship	British Telecom	January 2018	10,123
RightsCon Toronto Conference Sponsorship	Fenwick & West LLP	January 2018	10,000
Core Organizational Support and RightsCon Toronto Sponsorship	Microsoft	January 2018	75,000
Program Support for #KeepItOn	John Templeton Foundation	January 2018	180,000
Policy Program Support	UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office	January 2018	27,902
Policy Program Support	Miami Foundation	January 2018	100,000
RightsCon Toronto Conference Sponsorship	Reddit	January 2018	10,000

Grant	Funder	Date	Amount (USD)
Program Support – Digital Security	Microsoft	December 2017	50,000
RightsCon TorontoConference Sponsorship	Humanity United	December 2017	50,000
RightsCon TorontoConference Sponsorship	ICANN	December 2017	15,000
RightsCon Toronto Conference Sponsorship	Centre for International Governance Innovation	December 2017	9,990
RightsCon Toronto Conference Sponsorship	Tunnelbear	December 2017	9,980
Tech and Policy Program Support	Sida	December 2017	470,864
RightsCon Toronto Conference Sponsorship	Google	December 2017	100,000
RightsCon: Brussels – Conference Sponsorship	Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs	December 2017	50,000
Core Organizational Support	Sonos	November 2017	15,000
Core Organizational Support	Minneapolis Foundation	November 2017	10,000
Core Organizational Support	Anonymous Donation	November 2017	20,000
Policy Program Support	Mozilla	October 2017	20,000
RightsCon Toronto Sponsorship	Internet Society	October 2017	25,000
Policy Program Support	Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs	October 2017	258,600
Crypto Colloquium – Conference Sponsorship	Internet Association	October 2017	5,000
Policy Program Support	UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office	September 2017	97,212
RightsCon Toronto Sponsorship	Private Internet Access	September 2017	50,000
RightsCon Toronto Sponsorship	IDRC	September 2017	40,522
Policy Program Support	Mozilla	August 2017	7,500
RightsCon Toronto Sponsorship	Vodafone Inc	August 2017	50,000
Policy Program Support	The Miami Foundation	August 2017	100,000
Core Organizational Support	Anonymous Donation	July 2017	200,000
Program Support – Digital Security	Microsoft	July 2017	100,000
Core Organizational Support	Oak Foundation	June 2017	150,000
Cy Pres Award	Perkins v. LinkedIn	May 2017	347,332
Core Organizational Support	Anne Coombs and Susan Varga	May 2017	22,682
RightsCon Brussels – Conference Sponsorship	Luminate	April 2017	15,000
RightsCon Brussels – Conference Sponsorship	OSCE	April 2017	26,500
Core Organizational Support	Google	April 2017	100,000
Program Support – Digital Security	Microsoft	April 2017	100,000
RightsCon Brussels – Conference Sponsorship	Open Society Foundations	April 2017	25,000
Policy Program Support – Over the Top	Google	April 2017	51,700
RightsCon Brussels – Conference Sponsorship	AnchorFree	April 2017	10,000
Core Organizational Support and RightsCon: Brussels- Conference Sponsorship	Facebook	March 2017	53,000
Core Organizational Support	Sigrid Rausing Trust	March 2017	121,000
RightsCon Brussels – Conference Sponsorship	Ford Foundation	March 2017	25,000
RightsCon Brussels – Conference Sponsorship	BT	March 2017	10,000
RightsCon Brussels – Conference Sponsorship	Reddit	February 2017	10,000
RightsCon Brussels – Conference Sponsorship	Automattic	February 2017	50,000
Core Organizational Support	Anonymous Donation	January 2017	5,144
Core Organizational Support	Craig Newmark	January 2017	10,000
Core Organizational Support	Jon Callas and Tamzen Cannoy	January 2017	5,000
RightsCon Brussels – Conference Sponsorship	Yahoo!	January 2017	10,000
RightsCon Brussels – Conference Sponsorship	Verizon	January 2017	10,000
RightsCon Brussels – Conference Sponsorship	Mozilla	January 2017	25,000
RightsCon Brussels – Conference Sponsorship	Humanity United	January 2017	25,000
Core Organizational Support	Duck Duck Go	January 2017	5,000
RightsCon Brussels – Conference Sponsorship	Cisco	January 2017	25,000
Tech, Policy, Advocacy, and Grants Program Support	Sida	January 2017	2,372,741
Core Organizational Support	Mozilla	January 2017	100,000
Program Support – Internet Shutdowns	Lush	January 2017	60,963

Grant	Funder	Date	Amount (USD)
Core Organizational Support	Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program	December 2016	40,000
Core Organizational Support	The Minneapolis Foundation	December 2016	50,000
RightsCon Brussels – Conference Sponsorship	Twitter	December 2016	20,000
RightsCon Brussels – Conference Meeting Sponsorship	Mozilla	December 2016	25,000
RightsCon Brussels – Conference Sponsorship	Internet Society	December 2016	25,000
RightsCon Brussels – Conference Sponsorship	ICANN	December 2016	10,000
Program Support – Internet Shutdowns	UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office	December 2016	75,627
Policy Program Support – Over the Top	Google	December 2016	198,300
RightsCon Brussels – Conference Sponsorship	Private Internet Access \| London Trust Media	November 2016	30,000
Tech, Policy, Advocacy, and Grants Program Support	Sida	November 2016	234,314
RightsCon Brussels – Conference Sponsorship	Vodafone	October 2016	50,000
RightsCon Brussels – Conference Sponsorship	Google	September 2016	100,000
Core Organizational Support	Microsoft	September 2016	85,000
Core Organizational Support	The 11th Hour Project	August 2016	125,000
Core Organizational Support	Anonymous Donation	June 2016	200,000
Core Organizational Support – Org Development	Oak Foundation	June 2016	100,000
Tech, Policy, Advocacy, and Grants Program Support	Sida	May 2016	658,350
Core Organizational Support and RightsCon: Silicon Valley – Conference Sponsorship	Facebook	May 2016	50,000
Core Organizational Support	Yelp	May 2016	5,000
Core Organizational Support	Union Square Ventures	April 2016	5,000
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Conference Sponsorship	ICANN	April 2016	10,000
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Conference Sponsorship	RightsCon.org	April 2016	146,535
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Conference Sponsorship	Microsoft	April 2016	50,000
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Conference Meeting Sponsorship	Mozilla	April 2016	15,000
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Conference Sponsorship	Reddit	March 2016	10,000
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Conference Sponsorship	Mozilla	March 2016	25,000
Core Organizational Support	Oxfam Novib	March 2016	10,874
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Conference Sponsorship	Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs	March 2016	49,982
Policy Program Support	Google	March 2016	100,000
Core Organizational Support	Sigrid Rausing Trust	March 2016	142,500
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Conference sponsorship	Twitter	March 2016	20,000
Core Organizational Support and RightsCon: Silicon Valley – Conference sponsorship	LinkedIn	March 2016	50,000
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Conference sponsorship	Dropbox	March 2016	10,000
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Conference sponsorship	IDRC	March 2016	34,663
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Conference sponsorship	Yelp	February 2016	5,000
Core Organizational Support	Oak Foundation	February 2016	200,000
Core Organizational Support	Mozilla	February 2016	100,000
Tech, Policy, Advocacy, and Grants Program Support	Sida	January 2016	1,392,765
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Conference sponsorship	Ford Foundation	January 2016	25,000
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Conference sponsorship	Yahoo!	January 2016	10,000

FY 2015 Funding Chart

Grant	Funder	Date	Amount (USD)
Core Organizational Support	The Minneapolis Foundation	December 2015	5,000
Core Organizational Support	Access Now Global Membership	December 2016	3,000
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Conference Sponsorship	Voqal	December 2015	10,000
Core Organizational Support	New Venture Fund	November 2015	15,000
Core Organizational Support	Voqal	November 2015	6,250
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Conference sponsorship	Humanity United	November 2015	20,000
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Conference sponsorship	Internet Society	November 2015	35,000
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Conference sponsorship	London Media Trust	October 2015	25,000
Policy Program Support and RightsCon: Silicon Valley – Conference Support	Google	October 2015	120,000
Core Organizational Support	Anonymous Donation	August 2015	195,000
Policy Program Support – Crypto Summit	BSA	July 2015	10,000
Policy Program Support	LinkedIn	July 2015	2,500
Tech, Policy, Advocacy, and Grants Program Support	Sida	July 2015	698,400
Policy Program Support	Microsoft	July 2015	45,000
Core Organizational Support	Oxfam Novib	June 2015	113,469
Core Organizational Support	Private Internet Access \| London Trust Media	June 2015	5,000
Core Organizational Support – Regional Strengthening	The 11th Hour Project	May 2015	225,000
Core Organizational Support	Mozilla	May 2015	100,000
Core Organizational Support and RightsCon: Southeast Asia – Conference sponsorship	Microsoft	May 2015	40,000
Tech, Policy, and Advocacy Program Support	Sida	April 2015	777,400
Core Organizational Support and RightsCon: Southeast Asia – Conference sponsorship	Google	April 2015	100,000
RightsCon Southeast Asia – Conference sponsorship	Yahoo!	April 2015	10,000
RightsCon Southeast Asia – Conference sponsorship	RightsCon.org	March 2015	38,374
Core Organizational Support and RightsCon: Southeast Asia – Conference sponsorship	LinkedIn	March 2015	50,000
RightsCon Southeast Asia – Conference sponsorship	ICANN	March 2015	10,000
Core Organizational Support	The Sigrid Rausing Trust	March 2015	225,045
RightsCon Southeast Asia – Conference sponsorship	Mozilla	March 2015	10,000
Core Organizational Support	Oak Foundation	February 2015	250,000
Core Organizational Support	Anne Coombs	February 2015	22,000
RightsCon Southeast Asia – Conference sponsorship	Media Democracy Fund	February 2015	10,000
RightsCon Southeast Asia – Conference sponsorship	Internet Society	January 2015	10,000
Core Organizational Support and RightsCon: Southeast Asia – Conference sponsorship	Facebook	January 2015	50,000
Core Organizational Support	Yelp	January 2015	15,000
Core Organizational Support	Silicon Valley Community Fund	January 2015	5,000

FY 2014 Funding Chart

Grant	Funder	Date	Amount (USD)
Tech Program Support – Digital Security	Sida	December 2014	390,600
RightsCon Southeast Asia – Conference Sponsorship	Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC)	December 2014	3,943
RightsCon Southeast Asia – Conference Sponsorship	Twitter	December 2014	30,000
Regional Program Support	The 11th Hour Project	December 2014	75,000
RightsCon Southeast Asia – Conference Sponsorship	Web We Want	November 2014	10,000
Policy Program Support	Google	October 2014	50,000
Core Organizational Support	Oxfam Novib	October 2014	125,910
Core Organizational Support	Voqal	September 2014	125,000
Core Organizational Support	Yelp	August 2014	5,000
Core Organizational Support	Microsoft	July 2014	40,000
Policy Program Support	Google	July 2014	50,000
Tech Program Support – Digital Security	Sida	June 2014	765,509
Core Organizational Support	Facebook	June 2014	50,000
Core Organizational Support – Emphasis on Tech Innovation Prize	John Templeton Foundation	May 2014	50,000
Policy Program Support – LatAm Digital Rights Mapping	IDRC	May 2014	5,000
Policy Program Support – Internet Governances and Telecoms Advocacy	Media Democracy Fund	May 2014	20,000
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Conference sponsorship	Internet Society	May 2014	2,500
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Conference sponsorship	Voqal	April 2014	5,000
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Conference sponsorship	Silicon Valley Community Fund	April 2014	5,000
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Conference sponsorship	ICANN	April 2014	25,000
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Conference sponsorship	eBay	April 2014	10,000
Core Organizational Support	All Out / Purpose Foundation	March 2014	2,500
Core Organizational Support	The Sigrid Rausing Trust	March 2014	242,650
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Event Operations	RightsCon.org	March 2014	75,375
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Conference sponsorship	Oak Foundation	March 2014	10,000
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Conference sponsorship	Twitter	February 2014	10,000
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Conference sponsorship	Microsoft	February 2014	25,000
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Conference sponsorship	AnchorFree	February 2014	10,000
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Conference sponsorship	Media Democracy Fund	February 2014	10,000
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Conference sponsorship	Mozilla Foundation	February 2014	25,000
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Activist and Civil Society Travel Support	Hivos	January 2014	40,000
Policy Program Support – Emphasis on Internet Governance	Google	January 2014	100,000

Grant	Funder	Date	Amount (USD)
Core Organizational Support and RightsCon: Silicon Valley conference sponsorship	Ford Foundation	December 2013	250,000
Policy Program Support – Global digital due process	Google	December 2013	75,000
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Conference support	Internet Society	December 2013	5,000
Policy Program Support – Emphasis on internet governance	Google	December 2013	100,000
Core Organizational Support	Hamish Parker	November 2013	15,870
Tech Program Support	Knight Foundation	October 2013	35,000
Tech Program Support and RightsCon: Silicon Valley	Humanity United	October 2013	140,000
Policy Program Support – LatAm digital rights mapping and regional advocacy	IDRC	August 2013	25,000
Policy Program Support – Global digital due process	Google	August 2013	150,000
Tech Program Support – Digital security	Sida	July 2013	781,000
Policy Program Support – Emphasis on internet governance and telecoms	Oxfam Novib	July 2013	132,160
Core Organizational Support – Emphasis on digital security	Swedbank	June 2013	60,000
Core Organizational Support	Anne Coombs	May 2013	18,777
Policy Program Support – Net discrimination in Europe	Skype	April 2013	25,000
Policy Program Support – Emphasis on internet governance	Google	April 2013	60,000
Policy Program Support – LatAm digital rights mapping and regional advocacy	Google	February 2013	50,000
Tech Program Support – Global Proxy Cloud and circumvention technology	Voqal	February 2013	75,000
Core Organizational Support – Emphasis on digital security, global digital due process, and internet governance	The Sigrid Rausing Trust	February 2013	222,000
Core Organizational Support	Facebook	February 2013	50,000

Grant	Funder	Date	Amount (USD)
Individual Donor Support – Emphasis on core organizational work and special projects	Global Movement Donations	Throughout 2012	35,166
Policy Program Support – Internet governance and telecoms advocacy	Media Democracy Fund	December 2012	20,000
Tech Program Support – Civil Society Report	Oxfam Novib	December 2012	64,000
Policy Program Support – LatAm digital rights mapping and regional advocacy work	IDRC	November 2012	50,000
Tech Program Support – HowSecureAmI.org	Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs	December 2012	35,000
Policy Program Support – Net Neutrality	Skype	October 2012	50,000
Policy Program Support – Global digital due process	Google	October 2012	75,000
Policy Program Support – Internet governance	Google	August 2012	120,000
Core Organizational Support	John Templeton Foundation	December 2012	300,000
RightsCon Rio – Hackathon coordination and travel support	New America Foundation (OpenITP)	April 2012	16,245
Core Organizational Support	Mozilla	May 2012	100,000
Core Organizational Support	Swedbank	June 2012	28,490
RightsCon Rio – Conference sponsorship	New America Foundation (OTI)	April 2012	10,000
RightsCon Rio – Conference sponsorship	Skype	April 2012	20,000
RightsCon Rio – Conference sponsorship	Google	April 2012	50,000
Core Organizational Support	Facebook	April 2012	25,000
RightsCon Rio – Conference sponsorship	Mozilla	April 2012	10,000
RightsCon Rio – Conference sponsorship	SecDev Foundation	April 2012	9,982
RightsCon Rio – Conference sponsorship	New IT Foundation	April 2012	10,000
RightsCon Rio – Conference sponsorship	Internet Society	April 2012	5,000
Core Organizational Support	The Sigrid Rausing Trust	March 2012	155,420
Core Organizational Support	Swedbank	February 2012	30,066

Grant	Funder	Date	Amount (USD)
Individual donor support – Emphasis on core organizational work and special projects	Global Movement Member Donations	January 2011	22,541
Core organizational support – Emphasis on capacity building, global campaign and advocacy efforts and tech support for global civil society	Google	December 2011	100,000
Core organizational support – Emphasis on Tech Innovation Prize, digital security support, training and resource development and RightsCon Silicon Valley	John Templeton Foundation	December 2011	150,000
Policy program support	Media Democracy Fund	December 2011	20,000
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Conference sponsorship	Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs	October 2011	34,970
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Conference sponsorship	Mozilla Foundation	October 2011	5,000
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Conference sponsorship	Skype	October 2011	10,000
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Event Operations	RightsCon.org	October 2011	19,937
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Conference sponsorship	Facebook	October 2011	25,000
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Conference sponsorship	AT&T	October 2011	10,000
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Conference sponsorship	Humanity United	October 2011	10,000
Core organizational support – Emphasis on digital rights policy, technology solutions for users at risk and the growth of the Global Movement	Oak Foundation	September 2011	240,000
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Activist and civil society travel support	Media Democracy Fund	October 2011	25,000
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Consultancy	Ford Foundation	October 2011	50,000
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Conference sponsorship	Yahoo! Inc.	October 2011	10,000
RightsCon Silicon Valley – Conference sponsorship	Google	October 2011	50,000
Core organizational support – Emphasis on digital security guides, the growth of the Global Movement and related campaigns, and the publishing of policy	Arca Foundation	June 2011	50,000
Tech program support – Development of tools, guides, and resources in support of at-risk users	Avaaz	June 2011	30,000
Core organizational support	Google	January 2011	250,000

Grant	Funder	Date	Amount (USD)
Policy program support – emphasis on developing engagement tools and resources and issuing policy papers on relevant digital rights issues	Media Democracy Fund	December 2010	20,000
Tech program support – Global Proxy Cloud and circumvention technology	Instructional Telecomms Foundation	November 2010	75,000
Core organizational support	Atlantic Philanthropies	August 2010	100,000
Core organizational support	Oak Foundation	September 2010	75,000
Core organizational support	YouTube, Inc.	September 2010	15,000
Core organizational support	Arca Foundation	September 2010	50,000
Core organizational support	Google	July 2010	50,000
Core organizational support	Avaaz	June 2010	16,800
Core organizational support	MoveOn.org	February 2010	50,000

FINANCIALS

Access Now’s mission is to defend and extend the digital rights of users at risk around the world. To this end, we work to ensure all of our programs and services create real outcomes, whether through technology support, advocating for rights-respecting policy or holding companies, governments and others accountable to user rights. As such, we believe we must also be accountable to our partners, supporters and individuals who depend on open and secure communications. Find below our Annual Reports, independently audited financial statements and tax filings for available years since Access Now was founded in 2009.

Please note that our annual Financial Statements and Federal Tax Returns are published in November of the following year.

Financial Statements (PDFs)

Federal Tax Returns (PDFs)