Pay-it-forward healthcare
Care shouldn't stay pending
Donations fund real medical appointments and mental-health care for people who can't afford them. Your gift becomes someone's appointment — this week.
- 12K
- appointments funded
- $1.4M
- care delivered at cost
- 60+
- partner clinics
- 100%
- gifts go to care
Our approach
Measured impact. Lasting care.
We work with clinics in communities where care is most often postponed. We find the gaps — the appointments that never happen because of cost — and we fund them. We don't guess at progress. We count the appointments, and we publish what they cost.
12K
appointments funded
Our story
Standing with people whose care stays pending
An appointment that stays pending is rarely about not caring. It is almost always about cost — a bill weighed against rent, a shift that can't be lost, a co-pay that doesn't fit the month.
CitaPendiente exists to close that gap. We forward-fund basic medical appointments and mental-health care through a network of partner clinics, at their cost, with no dignity tax on the person receiving it.
Lasting change doesn't happen with a single donation or a news cycle. It happens when enough people decide that no one's care should stay pending.
What we fund
Programs built for the appointments that get skipped
Six programs, each covering the care most often postponed when money is tight.
How it works
Make a difference
Your contribution helps someone access the care they've been postponing — this week, not someday.
Your donation
100% of your gift goes directly to funding appointments. No overhead taken off the top, no hidden fees.
Our action
Partner clinics deliver the care and bill the fund at cost. The appointment is often scheduled within days.
Their care
Someone receives the medical or mental-health care they needed — and the appointment that stayed pending finally happens.
Stories behind impact
Stories behind impact
Real accounts from people whose pending care finally happened — anonymized, with consent.
12K
appointments
have been funded through CitaPendiente's programs, partner clinics, and supporters like you.
See our impactGive forward
Turn compassion into lasting care
92% of every gift goes directly to appointments. No overhead theater. Just care you can trace.
$25
A wellness check-up
Funds a routine screening or annual check-up for one person.
$60
A therapy session
Funds a full individual therapy session with a licensed clinician.
$120
Emergency care
Funds an urgent visit or acute treatment for someone in need.
Gifts of any size are welcome — these are just examples of what an appointment costs.
Get involved
Every person needs care they can actually reach
We partner with over 60 clinics and community organizations to deliver funded care. These partners don't wait for help — they lead it. You can too, as a volunteer, a clinic partner, or a monthly giver.
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