Apply for assistance
Surro Strong Foundation exists to stand beside gestational carriers who have been left with unexpected bills or ongoing health needs after bringing someone else’s child into the world.
We provide grants to help cover surrogacy-related medical, hospital, and postpartum psychological care expenses that have become the surrogate’s responsibility, including care that falls outside the time limits or scope of the gestational carrier contract.
If you are a surrogate facing personal financial liability for pregnancy, delivery, or postpartum care within the past two years, you are invited to apply for assistance through our confidential grant review process.
We provide grants to help cover surrogacy-related medical, hospital, and postpartum psychological care expenses that have become the surrogate’s responsibility, including care that falls outside the time limits or scope of the gestational carrier contract.
If you are a surrogate facing personal financial liability for pregnancy, delivery, or postpartum care within the past two years, you are invited to apply for assistance through our confidential grant review process.
Supporting Documentation:
Surro Strong Foundation provides grants to gestational carriers (surrogates) who have become personally responsible for medical or psychological related expenses stemming from their surrogacy experience or postpartum recovery. Eligible circumstances include both unpaid or unreimbursed bills and postpartum care that falls outside the coverage or time limits of the GC contract.
Applicants must meet all of the following criteria:
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- Gestational carrier status: You served as a gestational carrier under a written surrogacy agreement for intended parents, whether arranged privately or through an agency.
- Covered circumstances: You have incurred financial liability arising from:
- Medical or hospital bills issued to you as the patient of record related to pregnancy, labor, delivery, or postpartum recovery.
- Nonpayment by the intended parents, agency, or escrow account.
- Escrow mismanagement or closure that left surrogacy-related expenses unpaid.
- Postpartum medical or psychological care that was not covered by the GC contract, whether because of a contractual time limit, category exclusion (e.g., therapy or mental health services), or other gap in coverage.
Timing: The pregnancy, delivery, or postpartum period giving rise to the expense must have occurred within the past two years.
Residency: Applicants must reside in the United States or its territories.
Residency: Applicants must reside in the United States or its territories.
Required Documents
Please have digital copies (PDF or JPG) ready to upload with your application:
Applicants must meet all of the following criteria:
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- Identification: Government-issued ID such as a driver’s license or passport.
- Surrogacy Agreement: Executed copy of your GC contract, with the option to redact unrelated personal details.
- Billing or Claim Records: Hospital, clinic, or insurance documents showing charges in your name as the patient of record.
- Postpartum Care Documentation: Records of psychological or medical care received after delivery that were either outside your contract’s coverage period or not reimbursable under its terms.
- Correspondence: Emails or written communications with intended parents, agencies, escrow providers, or insurers showing your efforts to obtain payment or clarification.
For Direct Payments to Collectors (if requesting): Collection notice/letter, creditor statement with current balance/account number, provider payment instructions (e.g., invoice or billing portal details), and your signed authorization allowing us to contact and pay them directly on your behalf.
All submissions are handled confidentially and used strictly for eligibility review.
All submissions are handled confidentially and used strictly for eligibility review.
Grant Application
