Tails is their strongest protection

At Tails, we build a liberating operating system that puts people in control of their digital lives:

• Journalists and whistleblowers use Tails to denounce the wrongdoings of governments and corporations.
• Activists use Tails to avoid surveillance and organize their struggles for liberatory social change.
• Domestic violence survivors use Tails to escape surveillance at home.
• Privacy-concerned citizens use Tails to avoid online tracking and censorship.

Tails is and will remain Free Software because the most vulnerable and oppressed people are the most in need of privacy and security.

Donations from passionate people like you are our most valuable source of funding because they guarantee our independence. We are a very small non-profit and our yearly budget is ridiculously small compared to the value of Tails.

Bank transfer

German bank account (preferred):

US bank account:

Your donation goes entirely to Tails and will be handled by the Center for the Cultivation of Technology (CCT) which is a non-profit organization in Germany.
Donations are tax-deductible to the full extent permitted by law.

Cash and US check

You can send us cash in any currency and US checks by post:

Riseup Labs
PO Box 4282
Seattle, WA 98194

Please add a note that your donation is for Tails.

Checks should be made payable to Riseup Labs.

Corporate matching donation programs

Search for Riseup Labs and donate to Tails via Riseup Labs.

If you cannot specify that your donation to Riseup Labs is for Tails, please let us know at tails-fundraising@boum.org so we can attribute your donation to Tails specifically. Riseup Labs is a 501(c)(3) non-profit in the USA.

Contact

If you have any question or problem regarding your donation, our fundraising team is here to help you:

tails-fundraising@boum.org

How we spend our money

Our impact

Our biggest satisfaction comes from the growing popularity of Tails.

From the number of automatic upgrades, we know that Tails was used by around 30 000 people every day in 2020. This number has been steadily growing by 15% each year on average since 2012.

We keep people safe more than 10 million times every year, for a budget under $300 000.

Our financial records are available here.

Recommended by

If you look at the way post-2013 whistleblowers have been caught, it is clear the absolute most important thing you can do to maintain your anonymity is reduce the number of places in your operational activity where you can make mistakes. Tor and Tails still do precisely that.

— Edward Snowden,
NSA whistleblower

Tails expands Tor's protections to an entire operating system, and they do so with an unwavering commitment to their Social Contract. Tails is a favorite companion tool of Tor.

— Roger Dingledine,
co-founder of the Tor Project

One of the most robust ways of using the Tor network is through a dedicated operating system that enforces strong privacy- and security-protective defaults. That operating system is Tails.

— Electronic Frontier Foundation

Where our money comes from

Our sponsors

All donations, grants, and awards of more than $1 000 appear in our list of sponsors.

Come talk to us and become a sponsor yourself!