Nos Oignons is a 10 years old French non-profit association living on donations, dedicated to running Tor exit nodes in France, to improve the diversity of the network. A bit like Emerald Onions in Seatle, Zwiebelfreunde in Germany, The Foundation for Applied Privacy in Austria, Artikel10 in the Netherlands, DFRI in Sweden, …
Full-disclosure, I'm part of its administrative council, and the system administrator team.
A bit less than 1 on 100 connections are going through one of our 14 relays, we're providing a capacity of symmetric 600Mbit/s to the network and are amongst the top20 exit families. To keep our machines running, we need money: we're still afloat, but barely.; thanks to recurring donations, but we would like to have some margin and to spawn a new relays: a single machine costs us, per day, around 30€.
This is why we're doing a donation campaign in 2023: more sustainability, resilience, and hopefully new exit nodes! We even did a video for the occasion:
Of course, goodies as in "postcards and posters" for you should you give more than respectively 10€ and 50€. Our yearly budget is about 12,000€, and a bit more than 80% of it goes directly to pay relays, you can find all the details here.
Help us to help the tor network in France, donate to Nos Oignons!