When you become a Circle Donor to the ISHLT Foundation, you make an enduring commitment to transform care for patients with advanced heart and lung disease. Here’s how your support makes a difference:

- Create a Lasting Impact: Circle Donors play a crucial role in building sustainable resources for the Foundation's long-term initiatives, helping to establish an endowment that will support ongoing research and education well
into the future.
- Accelerate Medical Innovation: Circle Donors help drive groundbreaking research and advancements in heart and lung transplantation, directly impacting patient outcomes and quality of life.
- Support Career Development: Your contributions provide critical funding for early-career clinician-scientists in their career development, ensuring skilled and passionate healthcare professionals will lead advancements in
the field.
- Exclusive Engagement Opportunities: Circle Donors gain access to special events, research updates, and insights into projects funded by their contributions.
- Recognition and Legacy: By joining as a Circle Donor, you will receive recognition from the ISHLT Foundation for your commitment, which will include personalized appreciation and acknowledgment in key publications, reports,
and Foundation events.
- Networking with Like-minded Community: As a Circle Donor, you’ll join a network of fellow philanthropists who share your dedication to advancing heart and lung disease care, creating valuable relationships within an
inspiring community.
If you would like to make a significant gift of $2,500 or more, consider joining one of the ISHT’s Foundation’s Circle Donor levels.
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$2,500+Consider becoming a ISHLT Foundation Sustaining Donor, our monthly giving program. As a monthly donor, your support sustains vital programs, grants, and initiatives that benefit clinicians and the patients they serve worldwide. Together, we can
drive the next wave of breakthroughs, offering hope and healing to patients and families around the world.
Why Become a Sustainer?
- Drive innovation through new research projects.
- Expand our grants program to develop more clinician-scientists.
- Ensure that every patient, regardless of location, has access to high-quality care.
Your monthly gift—whether $25, $50, or $100—helps us amplify our mission and enables you to continue shaping the future of advanced heart and lung care.
Click the link below and select “Monthly” under Donation Frequency to set up your recurring gift today!
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Let’s continue to make strides together. Your monthly support means more lives touched, more clinicians empowered, and more breakthroughs realized.
Institutional giving offers transformative benefits for the ISHLT Foundation, fueling impactful programs in heart and lung disease care and research. Here’s how it strengthens the Foundation’s mission:
Institutional donations provide stable funding for research, career development, and patient care, enabling advancements.
Institutional support funds programs for equitable, quality care, advancing global heart and lung transplantation standards.
Institutional gifts fuel new projects, expand research, support clinicians, and drive innovation.
Institutions gain the benefit of aligning with leaders in heart and lung transplantation, showcasing commitment to health and innovation.
Partnerships with institutions expand the ISHLT Foundation's reach, connecting with wider audiences and increasing support.
If you would like to make an institutional donation, email Shanita Anderson at shanita.anderson@ishlt.org or call +1-312-224-0009 for more information.
We make it easy to spread your donation over time with a pledge installment plan. Pledge your support today and pay over a period that works for you. Simply click the link to access the Pledge Form:
- Select the total amount you would like to donate.
- When you would like to complete your pledge.
- Choose a schedule: monthly, quarterly, or annually.
- Click Pledge Now to automatically set up your pledge.
Our team will provide reminders for each scheduled payment.
If you prefer to give by check, please make it payable to ISHLT Foundation and send it to:
ISHLT Foundation
141 West Jackson Blvd, Suite 1340
Chicago, Illinois 60604
USA
Include a note with your check indicating any specific designation for your gift.
Designation options:
- Area of Greatest Need
- Francis D. Pagani, MD Endowed Mentorship Award
- In honor or memory of someone
To pay by ACH or wire, please email the Foundation at foundation@ishlt.org or call +312-224-1277 for instructions.