From a development perspective, transparency doesn't just mean that we show you our source code (though of course we do). Transparency for a privacy project is not a contradiction: privacy is about choice, and we choose to publish all of these aspects of our work in order to build a stronger community.

The audit document and tax filing for the six month period ending should be available in January. So expect our next standard audit to cover 'January 2017 through June 2018,' and expect our next financial document to be for the same period (18 months). In 2017, we changed our fiscal year to be 'July through June' - having our fiscal year end right in the middle of fundraising season (Dec 31) makes it harder to plan budgets. On the plus side, we have the 2017 tax filing document available for you now, too.

We followed the recommendation from 2015 of getting fresh auditors (because in theory fresh auditors will look for new things), but that process turned out to be way more bumpy than anybody expected. We publish all of our related tax documents because we believe in transparency.

After completing a standard audit for 2016, our 2016 federal tax filings and audit, along with our 2017 federal tax filings, are available.

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