Grants
The Sia Foundation funds open-source work on Sia. New grant intake is paused while the Foundation reviews its grants strategy.
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While intake is paused
Existing grants continue. Project ideas and questions about the program go to the #grants-program channel on the Sia Discord. Updated guidance will be published on this page.
Who can receive a grant
Software funded by a grant is released under an open-source license approved by the Open Source Initiative. Grants are paid in USD to a bank account registered in your name or your entity’s.
For compliance reasons the Foundation cannot fund residents of jurisdictions under increased FATF monitoring, under active OFAC sanctions, or that fail its bank compliance checks, and it cannot pay bank accounts located there. As of February 2026 that list is:
- Afghanistan
- Algeria
- Angola
- Belarus
- Bolivia
- British Virgin Islands
- Bulgaria
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- China
- Côte d’Ivoire
- Cuba
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Eritrea
- Haiti
- Iran
- Iraq
- Kenya
- Laos
- Lebanon
- Liberia
- Mali
- Monaco
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nepal
- North Korea
- Palestine
- Republic of the Congo
- Russia
- South Sudan
- Syria
- Ukraine (sanctioned regions)
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Yemen
Templates
The proposal templates from the program so far, and the report template grantees send each month.