What $3,000 Means to a Family

Fertility treatment forces families into impossible math.

You sit down and look at the numbers. You look at your savings. You look at the cost of the next cycle. And then you make a decision that no one should have to make — whether you can afford to try for the family you want.

That's the reality for most families in Ohio. And it's the reality that drives everything we do at Pursuit of Rainbows.

What Treatment Actually Costs

A single IVF cycle in Ohio typically runs between $15,000 and $25,000 out of pocket. That's one attempt — with no guarantees. Many families go through multiple cycles.

IUI is more accessible, often $300 to $1,500 per cycle, but rarely works on the first try. Fertility preservation — freezing eggs or embryos — can run $5,000 to $10,000 before annual storage fees begin.

For most Ohio families, insurance covers little to none of it. Every appointment, every injection, every monitoring visit comes out of pocket. The financial pressure doesn't let up — it compounds. And at some point, families are forced to choose between continuing treatment and everything else.

That decision — whether to keep going — is one of the hardest things a person can face. It shouldn't come down to money. But it does.

What $3,000 Opens Up

$3,000 doesn't solve the whole problem. But it moves people forward when they've run out of forward.

It can cover the monitoring appointments and bloodwork that happen before a single IUI procedure — costs that add up fast and often catch families off guard.

It can cover a full round of medications for a cycle that insurance has already denied.

It can be the exact amount that separates a family from trying again this year versus waiting — again — while time works against them.

For families facing unexplained infertility, every cycle matters. Every month matters. A grant that moves someone forward by one cycle isn't a small thing. It might be everything.

That's what $3,000 means. Not a solution. A door that was closed, opened.

Growing What We Can Give

Our grants are $3,000 today. But that's not where we intend to stop.

The more we raise, the more we can give — more families, larger grants, more doors opened. Every dollar that comes into this foundation goes back out to Ohio families who are making that impossible calculation and need something to tip the scale.

We want to be that something. For more people. Every year.

Run for Rainbows: This Sunday, April 19

This Sunday, we're hosting our first Run for Rainbows 5K at the Dublin Community Rec Center in Dublin, Ohio — right in the middle of National Infertility Awareness Week.

Every registration. Every donation. Every person who shows up or shares this — it all goes directly toward growing what we're able to give. More funding means more grants. It means reaching families we haven't been able to reach yet. It means the grant amount can grow.

You don't have to run. You can walk. You can donate from across the state. You can share this with one person who's in the middle of their own impossible math right now.

All of it adds up. All of it matters.

Registration is open at pursuitofrainbows.org. We hope to see you Sunday.

I know what it feels like to stare at those numbers. To want something so badly and feel the distance between where you are and where you need to be.

That distance is what this foundation exists to close. Come help us close it.