To donate miles/points or cash, please head to miles4migrants.org/donate. If the miles/points that you would like to donate are not listed on our website, this unfortunately means that we cannot accept them.

Please note we cannot earmark pledges/donations for a specific cause or population (see “Can my donation be earmarked” below).

We accept miles and points from most major airline and credit card programs. Miles4Migrants partners directly with the following airlines, allowing you to transfer your miles directly into Miles4Migrants pooled accounts:

• Delta Air Lines
• United Airlines
• Air Canada Aeroplan
• Alaska Airlines
• JetBlue Airways

Other commonly used miles/points:

• Southwest Airlines
• Flying Blue (Air France and KLM)
• American Express Membership Rewards
• Chase Ultimate Rewards
• Capital One Rewards
• Citi ThankYou Points

Because Miles4Migrants provides flights for both domestic (U.S.-Mexico border) cases and international cases, the number of miles required for a flight varies. Other considerations are whether we are flying just one person or several members of a family, award seat availability when the flight reservation is made, and which airlines fly the specific route needed. We are only able to combine pledges if they are donated to one of our pooled airline accounts, so each donor’s pledge is used by itself to cover the flight.

Some examples of miles requirements:

• 12,000-20,000 miles will fly one person within the U.S.
• 20,000 miles will fly one person from Afghanistan to Europe
• 25,000-40,000 miles will fly two people within the U.S.
• 40,000 miles will fly one person from Africa to the U.S. or Canada
• 42,500 miles will fly one person from the Middle East to the U.S.

Minor children need to be on the same reservation as the adult, which requires even larger pledges.  For example, if we are flying an Afghan family to Europe, the miles required might be:

• 60,000 miles for an adult and two minor children 
• 100,000 miles for an adult and four minor children

If you pledged miles to one of our pooled account partners, then you will receive instructions about how to transfer your miles to our account at the time you make your pledge on our website. Please check your spam folder if you do not see an email. Once you’ve successfully made the transfer, you’re done!

​If you pledged miles from another program, our Donor Engagement team will reach out to you with the next steps. Your pledge will then be in our queue, allowing the flight booking team to match it with an incoming travel request from one of our partners. Miles4Migrants works with partner NGO organizations to identify refugees or asylum seekers that are in need of flight assistance. Once a partner brings us an approved case in need of airfare, our flight booking team works to identify the best award flight options, and then matches the flight with a donor who has pledged the corresponding number of miles to the associated airline reward program. As the volume of flight requests varies, your donated miles may be needed within a matter of weeks, but it is likely that it could take longer to process your specific program/donation amount. We appreciate your patience. Don’t worry, we haven’t forgotten about you!

All miles and points are used to support members of the refugee community around the world, and cannot be earmarked for one particular population or destination country. We appreciate our donors entrusting our team to make the best use of all donations, ensuring that we can meet all flight requests.

Yes! Please head to miles4migrants.org/donate to donate. Cash donations help us cover the fees associated with each booking or the cost of a ticket that cannot be purchased with miles. As little as $5 can cover the fees for one U.S. domestic trip. $50 covers the fees for one international ticket, $300 covers the average cost of a one full domestic flight, and $500 covers the cost for a single average international flight.

Thank you again for your interest in supporting Miles4Migrants!

All contributions to Miles4Migrants are used solely to help refugees, asylees, and asylum-seekers. No funding or contributions are used to cover any personal costs of staff or volunteers, and under no circumstance is any donated money used for political activism or lobbying.  

The IRS recognizes the donation of airline miles or points as a gift from the airline to the charitable organization. Therefore, miles donated to Miles4Migrants are not considered tax-deductible by the individual donor. For further information, consult IRS Publication 526 and/or your personal tax advisor.

Miles4Migrants is registered as a nonprofit 501(c)(3) charity, and monetary donations may be tax deductible.

For each flight reservation made, Miles4Migrants determines the lowest cost reasonable itinerary for the number of people requested on the day that we scheduled a flight. We define “reasonable itinerary” as one layover or fewer and exclude low cost carriers because these flights often charge additional fees. We do not use the cost of the exact flight we have booked with points because it would often lead to an inflated cash value since cash prices do not always directly correlate with the award flight cost in miles. 

For example, if we received a flight request to fly two passengers from San Antonio to Philadelphia, and we booked those tickets using United Airlines miles, it may cost 30,000 miles and $11.20 in fees. Then we’d find the find the lowest cash cost one stop flight from SAT-PHL. If the lowest cost option was a $400 Delta flight, we would record the cash value as $800 ($400 x 2), even if the particular United flight reservation we made cost $900 per ticket, since in any realistic situation where someone had to pay cash, they would purchase the $400 flight, not that particular $900 flight.

Yes! Please head to miles4migrants.org/donate-crypto to donate your cryptocurrency. Donating cryptocurrency is a non-taxable event, meaning when you donate crypto to a registered charity, you do not recognize capital gains from the donation and can deduct it on your taxes. In other words, donating your crypto can often reduce your tax burden. This makes Bitcoin, Ethereum and other cryptocurrency donations one of the most tax efficient ways to support your favorite cause.

All miles and points are used to support members of the refugee community around the world, and cannot be earmarked for one particular population or destination country. We appreciate our donors entrusting our team to make the best use of all donations, ensuring that we can meet all flight requests.

Yes! Please head to miles4migrants.org/donate to donate. Cash donations help us cover the fees associated with each booking or the cost of a ticket that cannot be purchased with miles. As little as $5 can cover the fees for one U.S. domestic trip. $50 covers the fees for one international ticket, $300 covers the average cost of a one full domestic flight, and $500 covers the cost for a single average international flight.

Thank you again for your interest in supporting Miles4Migrants!