Grants for Infertility Treatment

Where to Start for Information on Affording Fertility Treatment:

• Check out the following Creating a Family radio shows:

  • January 28, 2011: Grants for Fertility Treatment & Affordability Programs Offered by Infertility Clinics (Listen Now)

• Other Creating a Family Resources

  • CAF video on Grants for Fertility Treatment

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Grants for Fertility Treatment :

• Angels of Hope

  • Covers cost of fertility treatment

  • Must be married

  • Preference given to those living within 24 miles of the Morris, Illinois

  • Preference given to those early in the fertility treatment process with a high likelihood of success with treatment

  • Must have financial need

• BabyQuest Foundation

  • Provides financial assistance for those pursuing IUI, IVF, egg donation, and surrogacy
  • Open to singles, heterosexual, and same-sex couples under 40 years of age
  • Based on need
  • Must have health insurance to cover mother/prenatal care

• Bumps, Inc.

  • Covers cost of IVF

  • Preference give to childless couples

  • Does not cover cost of medication

  • Selection is based on the compelling nature of an applicants circumstances, their fertility history, financial situation and a number of other determining factors.

• Cade Foundation

  • $10,000 grant can be used for financing infertility treatment or domestic adoption

  • $50 application fee

  • Grant recipients are expected to participate in fundraising efforts and raise the amount of their award in the years following their grant.

• The Embracing Hope Grant at Fertile Dreams

  • $10,000 grant

  • Can be used at any infertility clinic

  • Based in part on financial need

  • Eligible couples have health insurance, but their insurance does not cover infertility costs

• Sharing Hope Financial Assistance Program at Fertile Hope

  • Works with companies to provide discounted banking services and donated medication for cancer patients

  • Eligibilty depends on type of cancer diagnosis, financial need, and must be prior to the beginning of fertility-damaging cancer treatments

• InterNational Council for Infertility Information Dissemination (INCIID)

  • Technically, this is not a grant. Certain infertility clinics have agreed to provide basic IVF coverage for no charge.

  • Recipients have to use the specific clinic, which may require travel.

  • $55 donation to INCIID is required before you apply

  • Applicant must not have insurance that covers fertility treatment

  • Applicants must prove financial need

  • Costs associated with egg or sperm donation or surrogacy are not covered.

  • Preference given to childless couples.

• The Madeleine Gordon Gift of Life Foundation

  • Married couples with no children together

  • Must live within 15 miles of the I 275 loop around Cincinnati

  • Must not have had a previous IVF attempt

  • Combined family income of less that $70,000

• New York State Infertility Demonstration Program

  • Must live in New York

  • Subsidizes IVF

• Pay-It-Forward Foundation
• Open to couples in states that do not mandate for infertility insurance coverage
• Meant to help couples who have had failed fertility procedures in the past
• Gives grants for couple who are pursuing IVF, donor egg IVF, and embryo adoption; military personnel who want to preserve fertility before deployment, and cancer patients who want to preserve fertility before treatment.
• Sparkles of Life
• Gives need-based grant to five couples every year to help with IVF costs
• Based in Texas; pays 1/3 of cost of treatment at Houston Fertility Institute

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