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 last year, 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. to Ecuador, 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 in 2012.

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, 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 police 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 in 2010, 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 April 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.

Donations began to drop drastically in 2011, when WikiLeaks received only about $180,000 in donations, while its expenses increased to $850,000, up from about $519,000 the previous year.

Assange is being sought for questioning in Sweden on rape and coercion allegations stemming from separate sexual relations he had with two women in that country in August 2010. One woman told police that Assange pinned her down to have sex with her and that she suspected he intentionally tore a condom he wore. The second woman reported that he had sex with her while she was initially asleep, failing to wear a condom despite repeated requests for him to do so. Assange was in the country applying for residency so that he might benefit from Sweden’s strong press protection laws.

Assange has denied any wrongdoing, asserting that the sex in both cases was consensual. He has also accused the women of being part of a smear campaign to discredit him and WikiLeaks. He asserts that if he goes to Sweden to face questioning in the sex crimes case, he will be extradited to the U.S. to face criminal charges for publishing thousands of government documents leaked to him by Manning.

This week, one of the two Swedish women accusing him of sex crimes urged the Swedish government to pressure Ecuador to hand Assange over to Swedish authorities.

"Sweden must put pressure on Ecuador to get Assange handed over to Sweden," Elisabeth Massi Fritz, a lawyer for the woman, wrote in a statement published. "There has been much speculation in the media, much of it incorrect ... This is not about any kind of conspiracy as some media outlets have claimed. My client is a plaintiff and a victim."

Massi Fritz accused Assange of using his trouble in the U.S. as an excuse for not facing justice in Sweden.

"I can say that Assange's claims about his extradition to the US, where he according to his own account would face the death penalty, is merely a way of circumventing the law in various countries to avoid taking responsibility for the acts he is currently suspected of committing," Massi Fritz wrote.