Footsteps for Fertility Foundation grants
Its deadlines, award, application fee and who can apply, read on the program's own site and checked against its posted dates on October 18, 2026.
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It posts no application dates: Grants are drawn at random at each Footsteps walk event, and a national application is offered from time to time. Award: Typically $5,000 in money when funding allows (less if the treatment costs less), or a basic IVF cycle donated by a partner clinic. Application fee: $30 per event application plus $35 event registration per person; $100 per couple for the national application. Who can apply: Anyone who meets SART's definition of infertility. For an event grant you must register for and attend the local event, and be present if you are drawn.
When to apply to the Footsteps for Fertility grant
Dates exactly as the program posts them. A round enters here only once the program has said when it runs.
No set dates
Grants are drawn at random at each Footsteps walk event, and a national application is offered from time to time
In the program's own words: Drawn at random right after each Footsteps walk event; a national application, also drawn at random, is offered from time to time.
What the Footsteps for Fertility grant pays and who can apply
As the program states them on its own site, read October 18, 2026.
- Award
- Typically $5,000 in money when funding allows (less if the treatment costs less), or a basic IVF cycle donated by a partner clinic
- Application fee
- $30 per event application plus $35 event registration per person; $100 per couple for the national application
- Who can apply
- Anyone who meets SART's definition of infertility. For an event grant you must register for and attend the local event, and be present if you are drawn.
- Where you must live
- Any US state
- Pays for
- IVF, frozen embryo transfer and IUI. The donated grant covers the in-house clinic costs of a basic IVF cycle.
- The catch
- Winners are drawn at random, not chosen on need, and event grants require being at the event. The donated cycle excludes medications, blood work, anesthesia, donor sperm or eggs and adopted embryos.
Footsteps for Fertility Foundation grants: common questions
When is the Footsteps for Fertility grant deadline?
It posts no application dates: Grants are drawn at random at each Footsteps walk event, and a national application is offered from time to time Drawn at random right after each Footsteps walk event; a national application, also drawn at random, is offered from time to time.
How much does the Footsteps for Fertility grant pay?
Typically $5,000 in money when funding allows (less if the treatment costs less), or a basic IVF cycle donated by a partner clinic.
Who can apply for the Footsteps for Fertility grant?
Anyone who meets SART's definition of infertility. For an event grant you must register for and attend the local event, and be present if you are drawn.
Is there an application fee for the Footsteps for Fertility grant?
Yes: $30 per event application plus $35 event registration per person; $100 per couple for the national application.
What does the Footsteps for Fertility grant pay for?
IVF, frozen embryo transfer and IUI. The donated grant covers the in-house clinic costs of a basic IVF cycle. Winners are drawn at random, not chosen on need, and event grants require being at the event. The donated cycle excludes medications, blood work, anesthesia, donor sperm or eggs and adopted embryos.
Other grants that pay for the same care
Every grant is competitive, so apply to each one you qualify for. Open ones first; never ranked by award.
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