As WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange approaches the one-year anniversary of his confinement in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, a report released Wednesday reveals that donations to the secret-spilling site have dwindled to a trickle.

The organization managed to attract only $68,000 in donations, according to an accounting report published by the Wau Holland foundation (.pdf), a German nonprofit organization that processes most of the financial contributions for the group.

This despite constant pleadings for donations from Assange while the controversial leader remained holed up in the embassy to avoid legal proceedings in a sex crimes case in Sweden.

Last June, Assange snuck into the Ecuadorian embassy to seek asylum nine days before he was set to be extradited to Sweden. He was granted asylum by Ecuador last August. British authorities, however, have refused him passage out of the U.K., threatening to arrest him if he leaves the embassy.

Although money pouring in to WikiLeaks has trickled, the organization’s expenses have not. According to the Wau Holland report, expenses last year totaled more than $507,000.

“Since January 2013, the foundation has only been able to cover expenditures in essential infrastructure, such as servers,” the report states.

Those infrastructure costs totaled about $47,000. But an additional $400,000 in expenses was incurred to cover publishing campaigns and logistics.

The report does not disclose any salaries paid to Assange or WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnnson. It states only that “The coordination of the content related tasks is performed by Julian Assange on base of a project-contract. He is also responsible for the content related approval of tasks. This work was done voluntarily without any financial compensation in 2012.”

While donations to WikiLeaks have dropped drastically, the cost of keeping vigil over Assange while he remains ensconced at the embassy has risen to about $6.3 million in police costs, according to British officials.

The cost to British taxpayers is averaging $17,000 a day, according to the Daily Telegraph, which estimates that at least eight officers are on duty in and outside the embassy around the clock, waiting to arrest Assange if he leaves the premises.

With regard to donations to the group, they are down dramatically from the group’s heyday, when WikiLeaks collected more than $1 million in contributions following the publication of a video and documents leaked to it by former Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning.

In 2010, after the group published its first explosive leak from Manning — a video showing an Army helicopter firing on civilians in Iraq — donations reached their peak at more than $1.9 million. Money poured in through PayPal and bank money transfers.

About $700,000 of that came in November and December of 2010, after WikiLeaks and several newspapers began publishing a trove of U.S. diplomatic cables, also leaked by Manning.

PayPal froze WikiLeaks’ account at the end of 2010 asserting that it was in violation of the account’s terms of service. MasterCard, Visa and Bank of America also blocked donations to the group, though a French payment company later stepped in to re-open donation channels using MasterCard and Visa. Wau Holland lists the current donations for 2012, however, as coming only through bank transfers, checks and cash.

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