How Do I Donate to Research That Could End Dialysis?

Cardio Renal Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charity organization. Your donation advances our mission to provide a solution beyond dialysis.

Most kidney charities ask for help coping with dialysis. This page exists because some donors are looking for something else: a charity working on the problem itself — research aimed at a future where dialysis is no longer the default treatment for kidney failure. If that is the search that brought you here, this explains what the Cardio Renal Foundation funds, and how giving to that work actually happens.

The Problem Worth Solving

Dialysis is one of modern medicine's genuine miracles and one of its heaviest burdens. It keeps hundreds of thousands of Americans alive — at the price of hours tethered to a machine, several days a week, for the rest of a person's life, alongside the strain it places on the heart. For decades, the basic approach has barely changed. The Cardio Renal Foundation was built on a simple conviction: a fundamentally different approach to removing excess fluid from the body is worth pursuing, seriously and publicly, until dialysis becomes the last resort rather than the first answer.

What Your Gift Funds

• Research support directed at new approaches to fluid removal and cardio-renal care — the long, unglamorous work of turning a better idea into a tested one.
• Free public education — the plain-language library on this site, read by patients and families searching at 2 AM for answers about symptoms, stages, labs, and choices. It carries no ads and no paywall, because the people who need it most are the least able to pay for it.
• Advocacy for public funding — research at the scale this problem deserves will not be financed by bake sales. A counted, organized public of patients, families, and supporters is how that funding gets argued for.

Ways to Give to This Work

• A one-time or monthly gift through the Donate button on this site — monthly gifts matter more than their size suggests, because research support has to be plannable.
• From your IRA: if you are 70½ or older, a qualified charitable distribution lets you give directly from your IRA with no tax on the transfer — and it can satisfy your required minimum distribution. Our legal name is Cardio Renal Foundation Inc, EIN 33-4359765.
• Stock, bequests, and memorial gifts each have their own guides in this library — for many donors they are the most tax-efficient routes available.
• The pledge: if you are not ready to give, adding your name below still counts. Funders and lawmakers fund what they can see — a public that has signed its name to ending the dialysis default is part of the evidence.

For any of these routes, you can reach the Foundation directly:

• Email: donations@cardiorenalfoundation.org
• Phone: (646) 770-3946
• Our legal name and EIN: Cardio Renal Foundation Inc, 33-4359765

A Straight Word About Timelines

Research does not run on donation-page promises, and we will not pretend otherwise: nobody honest can tell you a breakthrough arrives in a given year. What a gift here buys is real but unspectacular — researchers supported, education published and kept free, and a public case for funding that grows harder to ignore. People who give to research are buying a direction, not a date. If that trade makes sense to you, you are exactly the donor this foundation was built for.

Giving from a donor-advised fund? You can recommend a grant to the Cardio Renal Foundation from your donor-advised fund at any time — just name Cardio Renal Foundation Inc, EIN 33-4359765, as the grantee. You will also find us in the PayPal Giving Fund — see our Donor Advised Fund page for how it works.

At the Cardio Renal Foundation, support from readers like you keeps this education free and the research moving. Build the future. Be the answer.

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