Who Are We
Our primary mission is to help living organ donors overcome the financial burdens associated with organ donation, but we will also provide assistance in whatever way we can to help donors make informed and safe decisions.
The American Living Organ Donor Fund
The American Living Organ Donor Fund is a 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity dedicated to serving living organ donors. We fully believe that helping living organ donors will make more donations possible, but our goal is to serve donors — to fill their needs, support their rights, and protect their interests. If doing so increases the number of donations, all the better, but increasing the number of transplants is not our top priority — living organ donors are.
All contributions made through the American Living Organ Donor Fund website go directly to helping American living organ donors and are tax deductible contributions. The Funds administrative costs in the past three years have averaged around 10% which is extraordinarily good for a charity. All our staff, except our accountant, are non-paid volunteers, we pay no rent, and spend very little on fundraising so most of your dollar goes where you want it to go — to help living organ donors.
KAREN & JOEY
“I am so grateful for the money the ALODF gave me. Neither one of us had been working and I was afraid the bills were going to catch up with us.”
The American Living Organ Donor Fund is dedicated to helping American living organ donors. We neither encourage nor discourage donation — we work with donors to help them make the most informed decision possible, and if they decide to donate, we work to make their donation experience as medically and financially safe as possible.
Giving an organ, like receiving one, is a life-changing event. We at the Fund believe living donors are heroes and should get all the financial and social support they need to limit the burdens of their donation.
In the United States, it costs more to donate an organ than to get one. This is because insurance, Medicare, and charities, are in place to help transplant recipients. Similar assistance is currently not available for living donors. With one study showing that 24% of donors who had originally wanted to donate, pulled out because of financial consideration. And other studies showing that it costs donors more to donate than most have savings in the bank, we realized that by helping living donors meet their expenses, we could help them save the lives of their intended organ recipients.
The rights and needs of Living Organ Donors are Our Priority
All revenue collected through this website will go directly towards helping living donors meet their expenses. If you would like to help us make the Fund a permanent charity, please consider sending a check to help us cover future administrative costs. Contact mikemitt@gmail.com for more information, or send your contribution directly to:
American Living Organ Donor Fund
C/O Spector Gadon & Rosen, P.C.
1635 Market Street
7th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103