Building operational and financial infrastructure for civil society

interalia is a fiscal host: a legally registered non-profit organisation (a German gGmbh), who holds and manages funds on behalf of other groups who don't have the operational capacity or who choose not to. By doing so, we take fiscal and legal responsibility for what happens with those funds.

Our mission

Interalia enables and empowers members of civil society working at the intersection of tech and social justice to advance their core missions, by taking care of their operations and finances as they evolve.

Who we work with

Individuals or unregistered groups

Informal small teams who want to receive funds without worrying about operations, taxes, or accounting.

Established teams

Who want more independence than at their original fiduciary home, or who need to seek new organisational homes and continue funding relationships.

Philanthropy

Wanting to distribute money in ways that is operationally difficult within their own infrastructure.

Non-EU based organisations

Looking for a European home for their operations, so they can apply for Europe-specific funding or receive tax-free donations within Germany.

Time-bound teams

Who come together for a specific purpose (e.g. an event) and need to host funds for a specific amount of time.

The change we want to see

We work to support the tech and society ecosystem, understood as anyone working on topics related to the impact of technology and data on our society, in the broadest sense. We see an urgent need for more joined-up operational infrastructure across civil society, and we dream of a network of fiscal hosts, providing a shared infrastructure of operational support, knowledge and resources, which strengthens the resilience of the civil society ecosystem, transforming our relationships with each other to be centred around care instead of competition.

Our team

Paula Grünwald

she/her

Co-Executive Director

Paula likes to describe herself as radical administrator and has helped various non-profits over the last two years build up and/or maintain healthy operational structures. Before that she has been working as Director of Strategy at the Center for the Cultivation of Technology, a fiscal host that supports open-source technologists. Prior to joining CCT, she worked for the Goethe-Institute Freiburg as head of administration.

Kristina Klein

she/her

Co-Executive Director

Kristina is an executive with experience in non-profit management. She has served as Executive Director of a fiscal host supporting open-source projects. She worked with the United Nations in New York and Yangon — as part of the UN General Assembly in New York and the UN Refugee Agency in Myanmar. She also served as CEO of the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany, where she remains a board member.

Advisory council

Michael Brennan

he/him

Member

Michael Brennan is an expert in technology and philanthropy strategy whose work spans civil society, academia, and the public sector. He co-founded initiatives such as the Spyware Accountability Initiative and the Green Screen Coalition. Previously, Michael served as a Senior Program Officer at the Ford Foundation, overseeing a global grantmaking portfolio focused on technology & society.

Lukasz Król

he/him

Member

Łukasz is a digital security trainer and researcher who focuses on NGO and journalist security. He currently works at Internews and Lighthouse Reports, building training content for and advising at-risk individuals all over the world. Łukasz is based in Warsaw/Warszawa, Poland.

Vivian Kube

she/her

Member

Dr. Vivian Kube is a lawyer specializing in freedom of information, strategic litigation, and the protection of civic spaces. She advises national and international human rights organizations and is part of the legal team at FragDenStaat. Vivian brings extensive experience and innovative legal strategies to her work.

Zara Rahman

she/her

Member

Zara Rahman is a co-founder of interalia, who developed the research and strategy before moving to the Advisory Council in 2025. She is a feminist writer, researcher and non-profit leader who has worked across various social movements and organisations over the past 15 years. She currently works at SUPERRR Lab, working towards building radical hope and political imagination.

hvale vale

they/them

Member

hvale vale (small letters as per bell hooks) is a feminist activist and writer of words. They sit, walk, run and sometimes dance at the intersections and explorations of peoples, community, systems and practices, autonomous tech infrastructure, organizing and holding spaces. Since 2017 hvale works at APC (Association for Progressive Communications) as Operations Managers.