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Originally sponsored by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory,[13] which had been instrumental in the early development of onion routing under the aegis of DARPA, Tor was financially supported by the Electronic Frontier Foundation from 2004 to 2005.[15][16] Tor software is now developed by the Tor Project,[17] which has been a 501(c)(3) research-education nonprofit organization [18] based in the United States of America since December 2006. It has a diverse base of financial support;[15] the U.S. State Department, the Broadcasting Board of Governors, and the National Science Foundation are major contributors.[19] As of 2012, 80% of the Tor Project's $2M annual budget comes from the United States government, with the Swedish government and other organizations providing the rest,[20] including NGOs and thousands of individual sponsors.[15] One of the founders of the project, Roger Dingledine, stated that the United States Department of Defense funds are less similar to being a procurement contract and are more similar to a research grant. Andrew Lewman, the executive director of the Tor project, stated that even though it accepts funds from the U.S. federal government, the Tor service did not necessarily collaborate with the NSA to reveal identities of users.[21]

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