Grantee Directory

Projects and organizations funded by the Interledger Foundation, working to expand access to digital financial services around the world.

The Work in Practice

Interledger grantees work across the world in different financial environments, from regions with limited infrastructure to highly connected digital economies. They include community-based organizations, researchers, technologists, and advocates who build infrastructure, advance research, shape policy, and expand how financial systems work in practice.

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  1. Interledger Ambassador: Sheena Allen

    Ambassadorships & Fellowships

    40 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Sheena Allen

    Financial Exclusion in the Southern U.S. : The Real Whys, Challenges, and the [Potential] Role of Digital Inclusion study investigates the financial exclusion faced by unbanked, underbanked, and neglected individuals in the Southern U.S. By prioritizing direct engagement, it seeks to uncover systemic and behavioural barriers that may be overlooked using traditional research methods.

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  3. Interledger Ambassador: Smriti Parsheera

    Ambassadorships & Fellowships

    60 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: India
    Project lead: Smriti Parsheera

    Smriti Parsheera, Conducting Research On Digital And Financial Inclusion In India. The Project Includes Organizing A Brainstorming Workshop Prior To Field Research, Convening Researchers Specializing In Digital And Financial Inclusion Alongside Payments Sector Practitioners. This Collaborative Approach Will Inform The Research Methodology And Ensure Comprehensive Investigation Of Payment System Challenges And Opportunities In The Indian Market. The Initiative Supports The Foundation's Mission To Advance Financial Inclusion Through Evidence-Based Research And Stakeholder Engagement.

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  4. Interledger Ambassador: Victoria Coker

    Ambassadorships & Fellowships

    60 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Victoria Coker

    Victoria Coker championed financial inclusion and economic justice through education for underserved groups, specifically highlighting Black voices. This project aims to instruct participants on payment technologies and emerging media to foster narrative shifts and broaden access to digital financial tools. Such efforts align with our mission to provide equitable access to innovation and empower marginalized communities through advocacy and tech education.

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  5. Interledger Ambassador: Stephanie Perrin

    Ambassadorships & Fellowships

    60 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Canada
    Project lead: Stephanie Perrin

    Stephanie Perrin, Developing A Strategic Framework To Position Interledger Networks As Privacy-Enhanced Payment Options For Vulnerable Populations. The Project Will Focus On Protecting The Financial Privacy And Security Of Key Groups Including Disabled Individuals, Elderly Populations, And Temporary Foreign Workers Who Face Heightened Risks In Traditional Payment Systems. This Initiative Supports The Foundation's Mission To Advance Financial Inclusion And Secure Payment Solutions For Marginalized And Underserved Communities.

  6. The People's Clearinghouse

    Digital Financial Services

    899 975 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Mexico
    Project lead: Isabel Cruz, Roberto Valdovinos

    The Peopleā€™s Clearing House (PCH) project builds an ILP-enabled payment platform that connects community banks and savings cooperatives in Mexico to each other, the national RTGS system, and global remittance networks. By enabling digital payments and account-based remittances, the initiative strengthens local financial institutions, expands access to capital, and empowers underserved communities to drive inclusive economic growth.

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  7. The Parallel Society

    Future Money Grant

    25 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Germany
    Project lead: Xiaoji Song

    The Parallel Society is an educational storytelling game that promotes financial inclusion and equity awareness. The program uses interactive narrative featuring two charactersā€”a Lebanese migrant in Barcelona and a villager in rural China's Henan provinceā€”to illustrate the universal challenges of financial exclusion across different global contexts. Through gameplay, participants learn about the behavioral and psychological impacts of limited access to financial services, while exploring solutions for greater financial equity. The program serves educational and charitable purposes by raising awareness of economic barriers faced by underserved populations worldwide.

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  8. Liminal Matter

    Future Money Grant

    25 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: France
    Project lead: Lena Ghaninejad

    Liminal Matter is a mixed-media installation combining grains (barley), black obsidian/coltan and 3D hologram technology. The installation aims to illustrate the evolution of money from tangible matter that originates directly from the Earth (grains, food & stones), into an increasingly immaterial entity which leaves more people behind as financial systems complexify and access to technology remains limited -thus asking the question: how can we best share the planet's resources?

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  9. Loose Chains

    Future Money Grant

    25 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Mia Wright-Ross

    Loose Change (Chains) reimagines a structure by which the litter of Hope based lottery tickets can be collected, recycled, and reflected (by Black & Brown Community Liaisons) to question the theologies of money, poverty, wealth, gain, loss, and hope that persists through the Capitalist White Supremacist's systems that prevails within the history and legacy of the U.S. Lottery

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  10. Sikhula Sonke - Living Archives of Afrofuturist Village Banking

    Future Money Grant

    25 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Zambia
    Project lead: Esther Mwema

    The audio-visual art exhibition will build an imagery that shifts mindsets about wealth and how it is defined. Sikhula Sonke is an isiXhosa phrase which means ā€˜we grow together.ā€™ The living archives will present stories of elders from Southern Africa whose knowledge can inform Afro-futurist financial systems that are not centered on Capitalism. The mixed media visual artwork will depict alternative systems based on archival research on the same topic so that the Afrocentric storytelling will serve as a continuation of archives, hence becoming living archives shaping an Afro-futurist imagining of financial systems based on village banking.

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