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How your support fights kidney disease on all fronts
Support our comprehensive programs that address the physical, emotional and financial burdens patients face, from prevention through transplant.
When you give to the American Kidney Fund (AKF), you do more than make a donation. You provide lifesaving assistance when patients have nowhere else to turn. You demonstrate that someone cares. And you join us in fighting kidney disease on all fronts: from prevention and research to treatment and transplant.
Your support can change the picture for the millions who have or are at risk for kidney disease today.
37 million Americans have kidney disease. But most don't know it.
Kidney disease is a top 10 leading cause of death in the U.S., but it's an illness with no warning signs and low awareness.
80%+ of dialysis patients cannot work due to the demands of their treatments.
Every success, milestone and breakthrough we achieve for patients and their families depends on caring and generous people like you. Your gift goes further when you give to AKF.
My kidney transplant would not have been possible without my daughter [living donor], the medical team, and my caretakers that all helped to make this happen. I truly wish everyone has this opportunity to receive a living donor and have the support that I received.
Here's what your donations to AKF helped us accomplish in 2022.
147 kidney transplants per month made possible with AKF's support, more than any other organization.
Nearly 75,000 dialysis and recent transplant patients were able to afford health care coverage and other treatment-related expenses.
$120,000 provided to nearly 500 kidney patients affected by natural disasters.
51 alumni and current AKF scientists advanced nephrology research.
completed our training course to educate others about the importance of living a healthy lifestyle
connected with their peers in our National Virtual Camp Program for pediatric kidney patients.
Learn about the various ways that you can financially support AKF to help us be there for patients and their families when they need us most.
You helped me tremendously by paying my premiums during my dialysis treatments. I am alive because there was help. I am a post kidney transplant recipient and try to help whenever I can.