Fox Family Foundation
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Founded during our own IVF journey

IVF grants for the Cystic Fibrosis community.

Cystic Fibrosis is a genetic disease that often makes IVF the only path to parenthood. We founded the Fox Family Foundation to remove the financial barrier, drive awareness and education, and build a community so no one goes through it alone.

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Dominique and Charlie Fox at home
Our Story
Charlie as a kid, mid-treatment in his airway clearance vest
Charlie as a teenager, holding paperwork from an early CFTR-modulator drug trial
Charlie's morning Cystic Fibrosis treatment
Preparing IVF medications
An IVF monitoring appointment
Before Dominique's egg retrieval
Just after the procedure
Meeting our embryo for the first time
Why this matters now

Cystic Fibrosis is a progressive, life-threatening genetic disease that affects the lungs and digestive system.

Over the past decade, breakthrough treatments have transformed CF care, and many people are now living longer, healthier lives, and starting families of their own. A lesser-known side effect is male infertility, which affects most men with Cystic Fibrosis, and even some carriers who never develop the disease themselves.

40,000
people are living with Cystic Fibrosis in the United States1
~1 in 30
Americans carries the Cystic Fibrosis gene, most without knowing it2
>95%
of men with Cystic Fibrosis cannot naturally conceive and need IVF to have biological children4
37%
historical infertility rate among women with Cystic Fibrosis, versus 15% in the general population4
The financial barrier

For Cystic Fibrosis couples, IVF is often the path to parenthood.

More people with Cystic Fibrosis are living healthy lives and starting families than ever before. Still, most insurance doesn’t cover fertility treatment at all, and the journey is expensive, often taking more than one cycle to have a child.

The cost of a single Cystic Fibrosis IVF journey
Cystic Fibrosis carrier & genetic testing$300 – $500
Sperm extraction (MESA / TESE)$6,000 – $16,000
One IVF cycle (retrieval + transfer)$12,000 – $20,000
Medications & monitoring$3,000 – $7,000
Pre-implantation genetic testing$3,000 – $7,000
Total$24,300 – $50,500
Typical U.S. ranges. Out-of-pocket costs vary by clinic, insurance, and plan.3
Our fundraising goal

A fund that lives on.

Our founding goal is $1,000,000, enough to help dozens of Cystic Fibrosis couples afford IVF and build the programs our community needs. Every dollar raised goes directly toward that work, and this is just the beginning of what we hope to build.

$102,600
raised toward our $1,000,000 founding goal

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The Fox Family Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization (EIN 30-1492395). Contributions are tax-deductible.