Helping dialysis patients
live — not just manage.

Built by a patient, for patients.

More than 800,000 Americans live with kidney failure — over 500,000 of them on dialysis. Most of them have quietly given up on travel — on seeing family in other states, on attending a wedding or a graduation, on any experience that requires logistics they don’t know how to navigate. The Moore Foundation exists to change that.

We were founded by someone who knows the chair firsthand. That perspective shapes everything we do: we don’t just hand people a brochure and wish them luck. We walk alongside patients, help them plan real trips to real places, and remove the barriers — practical and financial — that stand between a dialysis patient and the life they still want to live.

Our mission is simple and specific: make travel possible for people whose treatment schedules and costs have made it feel impossible. Not someday. Now — while it still matters to them.

We chose this focus deliberately. There is no shortage of organizations funding kidney research, and that work is essential. But almost no one is working on the day-to-day quality of life of the person on dialysis right now — the person who isn’t waiting for a scientific breakthrough but for a way to attend their daughter’s wedding next month. That gap is where we live. Research asks “how do we cure this?” We ask a smaller, more immediate question: “how do we help this person live fully today?” Both questions matter. We’ve chosen the one that isn’t being answered.

Everything we build is judged against a single test: does it get a real patient to a real place they otherwise couldn’t reach? If it does, we do it. If it doesn’t, it’s a distraction. That discipline is how a small charity stays honest and how it earns the trust of the people it serves and the people who fund it.

What dialysis really takes from you.

Let me tell you what most people never see.

I am on dialysis. Three times a week, I sit in a chair for hours while a machine does the work my kidneys can’t. I’m on the transplant list. I manage a family, a company, and a life from Tampa — in the hours between sessions. And I built this Foundation because I know exactly what happens to a person’s world when their body puts them on a schedule they never chose.

Dialysis doesn’t just tie you to a machine. It ties you to a place. A standard patient needs treatment every two to three days, at a specific center, with a specific team. Miss it, and you don’t just feel bad — you get dangerously ill. So the moment you start dialysis, an invisible fence goes up around your life. The wedding in another state. The grandchild’s birth across the country. The trip you always promised yourself. All of it quietly slips out of reach, because arranging treatment somewhere else feels impossible.

And here is what almost no one tells you: it doesn’t have to be impossible. Dialysis centers exist in nearly every city. Patients have the right to travel and be treated away from home. But the coordination — finding a chair at your destination, confirming your insurance, handling the flights and the transfers, managing the timing — is a maze most people give up on before they even start. Not because they don’t want to go. Because no one ever showed them the way.

I’ve sat in that chair and watched people around me shrink their own lives down to the size of a treatment schedule. Good people. People with family who love them and places they still dream of seeing. They stopped dreaming because the logistics beat them. That is the problem The Moore Foundation exists to solve — and it is a solvable problem. That’s the part that keeps me going between sessions.

The Life Book: one book per person, kept somewhere safe.

A serious illness teaches you fast: families lose precious time hunting for papers, phone numbers, and wishes. The Life Book is a free, large-print organizer that tells the people you trust where your important papers are, who to call, and what you want.

A charity — accountable by design.

The Moore Foundation is being formed as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization — the same legal framework as your church, the Red Cross, or any charity you’ve trusted before. That designation carries real, enforceable meaning:

This is not a business. It is not an investment vehicle. It is a charity, and it is one of the most regulated entity types in the United States.

Where are we in the process? We are in formation — filing our Articles of Incorporation, building the board, and preparing the full IRS application. We’re doing this in the right order, the right way, with no shortcuts. Donations become tax-deductible once 501(c)(3) approval is granted.

The questions people ask us most.