Our yearly expenses equal 230.000 € on average since 2015 - which is a very small budget compared to the multi billionaire companies and agencies running the surveillance business. Many of us still do a lot of work during their free time.
While last year's fundraising success was amazing, 2018 will arrive fast and our user base is continuously growing. During 2017 we counted 22.061 boots per day on average. ([[How do we know this?|support/faq#boot-statistics]]) **Many hands make Tails: If each of our users gave $15, our budget for the whole year would be raised within one day.** If we could fund Tails entirely through donations by our users, this would make us independent from government grants.
This image shows the evolution of Tails boots per day since 2013: [[!img boots_per_day.png link="no" class="top-margin center" alt="Tails boots per day increasing steadily from 7000 in December 2013 to 22000 in October 2017"]]
Last year, we received 2.043 individual donations. **If you want Tails to survive and be largely independent from government grants, please take a minute and <a href="https://tails.net/donate/?r=giveahand">give us a hand</a>!**
