Financial Assistance
American Kidney Fund
- Address: 6110 Executive Blvd., Suite 1010 Rockville, MD 20852
- Phone: (800) 638-8299
- Email: helpline@kidneyfund.org
- Website: www.akfinc.org
The American Kidney Fund provides limited grants to needy dialysis patients, kidney transplant recipients and living kidney donors to help cover the costs of health-related expenses, transportation and medication. They provide information and support for kidney donation and transplantation, as well as general education and information on kidney disease.
American Liver Foundation
- Address: 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 603 New York, NY 10038-4810
- Phone: (800) 465-4837, 1-800-GOLIVER
- Email: webmail@liverfoundation.org
- Website: www.liverfoundation.org
The American Liver Foundation, a national voluntary health organization, has established a Transplant Fund to assist patients and families in fundraising efforts for liver transplantation. The Foundation acts as a trustee of funds raised on behalf of patients to help pay for medical care and associated transplantation expenses, which may include expenses related to a living liver donation.
American Living Organ Donor Fund
- Address: 40357 Featherbed Lane Lovettsville VA 20180
- Email: info@helplivingdonorssavelives.org
- Website: www.ALODF.org
American Living Organ Donor Fund (ALODF) provides financial support for living kidney donors. Our mission is to serve American living organ donors. We will work to protect their rights and help them achieve their goal of saving the life of a relative or friend in the safest way possible.
American Organ Transplant Association
- Address: 3335 Cartwright Road Missouri City, TX 77459
- Contact: Ellen Gordon Woodall, Executive Director
- Phone: (281) 261-2682
- Fax: (281) 499-2315
- Website: www.a-o-t-a.org
The American Organ Transplant Association is a private, non-profit group that provides free or reduced airfare and bus tickets to transplant recipients and their families. AOTA publishes a newsletter. Patients interested in AOTA's services must be referred by their physician. The association also assists people with setting up trust funds and fund raising. No administrative fee is charged.
American Transplant Foundation - Denver Colorado
- Address: 600 17th Street, Suite 2515 South Denver, CO 80202
- Main Website: http://www.americantransplantfoundation.org
- Patient Assistance: http://www.americantransplantfoundation.org/programs/pap/
- Phone: (303) 757-0959
- Fax: (303) 757-2990
The Patient Assistance Program is designed for the most vulnerable patients with significant financial hardship.
Help Hope Live
- Address: 100 MATSONFORD RD #100 RADNOR, PA 19087
- Phone: (800) 642-8399
- Website: www.helphopelive.org
Help Hope Live is an online platform helping families create individual pages to support community-based fundraising for loved ones with unmet medical related expenses.
Izzie’s Gifts of Hope Foundation
- Website: www.izziesgifts.org
The Isabelle Christenson Memorial Scholarship awards a scholarship to an individual or family member of someone directly impacted by organ donation, including transplant candidates, recipients and donor family members.
National Living Donor Assistance Center (NLDAC)
- Address: 2461 S. Clark Street, Suite 640 Arlington, VA 22202
- Phone: (703) 414-1600
- Fax: 703-414-7874
- Email: NLDAC@livingdonorassistance.org
- Website: www.livingdonorassistance.org
If you know someone who is considering becoming a living organ donor (kidney, lung, liver) the National Living Donor Assistance Center (NLDAC) may be able to pay for up to $6,000 of the living donor’s (and his or her companion’s) travel and lodging expenses. The transplant center where the recipient is waiting will apply on the living donor’s behalf. Visit the NLDAC Web site at www.livingdonorassistance.org for more details and to read about general eligibility requirements and how the program works.