If your cat or dog has cancer and you can’t afford treatment, you are not alone. Many people are in this same situation. Magic Bullet Fund gets a lot of applications and we have to make very hard decisions. We would like to help all of the families who apply, but we cannot.
We provide assistance for the cancer treatments surgery or chemotherapy only. The fund operates only in the U.S. We so not raise funds for experimental treatment or clinical trials. The fund does not provide assistance for other conditions, for treatment that has already been done, cancer treatment after the first course of treatment has failed, palliative care, or euthanasia.
We process applications as quickly as possible. Generally, there is a one to two week waiting time after we have received your application and documents requested. The waiting time often depends on our ability to collect information from your clinic.
This fund does not give grants. We raise donations for each cat and dog in the fund. Owners must participate in fundraising for their pet, to help us raise donations. For those who want to simply receive money, please apply instead to organizations that give grants.
We cannot assist for emergencies. We receive and review the application and then work to raise donations for that pet.
For emergency treatments or when funds are needed within 2 weeks, Magic Bullet Fund cannot help. Apply to other organizations.
Dogs up to 40 pounds must be 14 or younger
Dogs 40 – 80 pounds must be 12 or younger
Dogs 80-100 pounds must be 10 or younger
Dogs 100+ pounds must be 9 or younger
Each pet’s campaign is open to collect donations for a maximum of 30 days. If the goal amount is raised sooner, the campaign closes.
Each donator to a pet’s campaign, at the time of their donation, receives from the fund a thank you note and information for their accountant. At the end of the campaign, we email all who donated for that pet (email addresses hidden), to thank them again and to say that the campaign is closed. We share with the pet’s owner the names of the donors (unless they donated anonymously), not the amounts.
Any donations made for a pet that cannot be used for that pet’s treatments return to the General Fund to help us provide assistance for another pet’s cancer treatment.
About CareCredit
If you received credit from CareCredit (or any resource), we suggest that you do not charge through more than the treatment amount, at the time of each treatment. For example, don’t charge $1,000 for the clinic to hold as a credit on your account. We cannot make a payment if there is a credit balance on your account… and your veterinary clinic is not a bank!
Before you apply, have these documents on your computer, ready to upload:
Magic Bullet Fund
PO Box 149
Yorktown Heights NY 10598
(Write pet’s name in memo line)
