STATE SPECIFIC:

• Florida: Assisted Fertility Program in Jacksonville offers $5,000 IVF (excluding medication) for households making under $50,000 per year.

• Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Indiana or Missouri: Kevin J. Lederer Life Foundation offers IVF cycle grants or financial grants up to $10,000 for individuals or couples seeking treatment in IL and who live in IL, WI, IA, IN or MO.

• Illinois: Angels of Hope offers $15,000 IVF grants to married couples living in Will and Grundy Counties and who can demonstrate hardship. Applications are reviewed in the Spring and Fall of each year.

• Louisiana: Sarah’s Laughter in Baton Rouge offers a $10,000 grant for patients to be treated at a SART-registered clinic.

• New York and Connecticut: Nest Egg Foundation provides eligible individuals or couples up to $10,000 to be used for IVF at 1 of 2 eligible Connecticut-based clinics. Additional eligibility requirements, including diagnostic requirements apply.

• New York: The State of New York earmarks nearly $1M per year for residents who earn under $195,000 per year and who are good candidates for IVF. We did a thorough rundown of the program here.

• North Carolina: Pay it Forward Foundation helps couples pay for additional fertility treatment when past procedures have failed & grants for fertility preservation and treatment for military personnel and cancer patients.

• Ohio: Madeleine Gordon Gift of Life Foundation provides IVF grants to married couples in the greater Cincinnati area.

• Parental Hope annually awards multiple grants that cover the full cost of one cycle of IVF or one Frozen Embryo Transfer. Additionally, in association with the Institute for Reproductive Health in Cincinnati, Ohio, one cycle of IVF is raffled off at Parental Hope's annual fundraiser during National Infertility Awareness Week.

• Tennessee: Starfish Fertility Foundation offers IVF grants to any person living within 100 miles of Nashville.

• Texas: Fertility Foundation of Texas awards $12,000 IVF grants twice a year for patients living in Central Texas and who earn $100,000 or less.

• Utah, Idaho, Washington: Footsteps for Fertility works with roughly 10 local clinics to provide either in-kind treatment at $10,000 per grant or $5,000 in cash grants.

• PRESCRIPTION ASSISTANCE: Compassionate Care Program allows eligible patients to save 25%, 50%, or 75% off the self-pay price of EMD Serono’s fertility medications. Eligibility based on income.

• Eligible self-pay patients can receive a discount, via rebate, off their out-of-pocket costs on select EMD Serono fertility medications through GO Direct Rebate.

CLINIC SPECIFIC:

• One IVF cycle (medications included): is made available annually in April through Northern California Fertility Medical Center.

• CNY: gives away a free IVF cycle monthly. Eligibility requirements vary from month to month.

• UCSF: runs an innovative, no-frills program for patients living in the Bay Area. When we reviewed the data it looked like costs were about 15% of an IVF cycle with success rates of about 40% as good. Here's our synopsis of the program.

• HRC: offers a 40% IVF discount to active duty personnel and veterans. Locations that participate are; Oceanside, Laguna Hills, Newport Beach, Fullerton, Rancho Cucamonga, Pasadena, Encino, Westlake Village, and West LA.

• University of Iowa: offers 50% discounts for veterans (with a DD214) on retrievals and transfers. U.S. cancer patients who earn under $100,000 per year are eligible for a 35% discount per retrieval. Patients with a family history of Huntington's Disease may be eligible for a free IVF cycle (first come, first serve).

• The Busch Foundation provides IVF grants for NC state residents through a Bundle of Joy Fund and only those who are being treated at REACH Fertility in Charlotte are eligible.

• Shady Grove Fertility provides typically at least one IVF cycle grant per year in coordination with The Cade Foundation.

• Houston Fertility Institute participates in the Sparkles of Life program that provides 5 steeply-discounted IVF cycles per year.

• Tennessee Reproductive Medicine: offers 35% off of IVF treatment for a patient or spouse who is part of a military, police, sheriff, or firefighter unit.

• The Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine (CCRM): offers a 20% discount for non-injured active-duty military personnel.

• Samantha's Gift of Hope: is a monetary award that has been distributed quarterly to chosen families who joined, qualified for, and applied successfully to the IVF 100% Success Guaranteed Plan at Reproductive Gynecology & Infertility.

• Spring Together Fertility Grant: is giving 4 patients financial assistance up to $17,500 in both New York and the SF Bay area to be used at the Spring Fertility Clinic