How Do I Set Up a Monthly Donation?

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

Ask any charity what kind of gift it values most and the honest answer is rarely the biggest one. It is the monthly one. A recurring gift — $10, $25, $50 a month, automatically — does something a one-time gift cannot: it lets the work be planned. This page explains why monthly giving is the backbone of serious research fundraising, and how it works here.

Why Recurring Gifts Punch Above Their Size

• Research runs on schedules, not windfalls. Supporting researchers, producing education, and maintaining a public campaign all have monthly costs. Income that arrives monthly can be committed monthly; income that arrives in surprises mostly cannot.
• The math compounds quietly. $25 a month is $300 a year — more than most one-time gifts — and monthly donors tend to stay for years, which makes them the most valuable supporters a charity has.
• It smooths the year. Charitable giving spikes in December and starves in July. The work does not. Monthly donors are the reason a foundation can keep publishing and funding through the quiet months.
• It is gentler on the giver, too. A meaningful annual total, divided into pieces small enough not to feel, is how most people actually sustain generosity.

How Monthly Giving Works Here

• Use the Donate button anywhere on this site and choose the monthly option, with the amount that fits your life. Every amount on the page is a suggestion, not a tier — there are no levels and no names for them.
• Your first gift runs immediately; the same amount follows each month. You will receive a receipt for every gift, and a donor portal where your giving lives in one place.
• You are in control. Pause, change, or stop a monthly gift whenever you like through the donor portal, or with one email to donations@cardiorenalfoundation.org. No phone tree, no retention script. A monthly gift that has to be trapped is a gift that was never really given.

What a Monthly Gift Supports

The Cardio Renal Foundation funds research aimed at a future where dialysis is no longer the default treatment for kidney failure, and publishes the free, plain-language education library you are reading now — the articles patients and families find at 2 AM when a symptom or a lab result has frightened them. Monthly donors are the floor under both: the reason the next article gets written and the research support does not pause between campaigns.

If dialysis has touched your family, you already know the shape of the problem: three sessions a week, every week, without end. Fighting it should look the same — steady, every month, without end, until the default changes.

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.

This article is informational only. Recurring gifts can be changed or cancelled at any time as described above.