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Electronic Frontier Foundation

U.S. civil-liberties advocacy (digital rights); libertarian-leaning on speech and privacy, generally aligned with left-of-center causes today

Owned byIndependent nonprofit, a 501(c)(3) membership organization based in San Francisco. It has no owner or parent company and is run by a board of directors and an executive director.
FundingMostly individual donations and memberships, which made up more than half of revenue as of 2022. Foundation grants were about 30%, and the rest came from corporate gifts, employee matching gifts, and court-awarded legal fees. Past funders include the MacArthur, Packard, Ford and Open Society foundations. Reported 2025 revenue was about $26 million.
On the administrationbroadly critical

Background

EFF was founded in 1990 by John Perry Barlow, Mitch Kapor and John Gilmore, after a Secret Service raid on a games publisher raised alarms about how the law treated computers. It built its name on early cases such as Bernstein v. Department of Justice, which established that code can be protected speech, and on suits over NSA surveillance. It runs the Deeplinks blog, Surveillance Self-Defense guides, and tools such as Privacy Badger and Certbot. It takes positions on privacy, encryption, copyright and patent reform, net neutrality, and platform and government censorship. It has criticized both Democratic and Republican administrations and has sometimes opposed tech companies. Critics from the right and from industry say its funders and views lean left and that it is hostile to some content moderation or copyright enforcement, while supporters see consistent civil-liberties principles. In 2026 it is representing unions (UAW, CWA, AFT) in a lawsuit against the administration's social media surveillance of noncitizens. A federal judge in New York let that case proceed, and EFF has also challenged other federal data-collection and surveillance efforts. Its posture toward the administration is adversarial, which follows from its stated mission rather than from partisan endorsement.

Sources

  1. Electronic Frontier Foundation (Wikipedia)
  2. Electronic Frontier Foundation (InfluenceWatch)
  3. Electronic Frontier Foundation (CharityWatch)
  4. Our Lawsuit Against the Trump Administration's Social Media Surveillance Moves Forward (EFF)
  5. Victory! Court Rejects Government Effort to Dismiss Social Media Surveillance Lawsuit (EFF)

Profile compiled 2026-10-20; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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