Financial Assistance for Children and Teens
This fact sheet lists sources of financial assistance available to children and teenagers who are affected by cancer, including transportation and scholarship resources. Check with each agency or organization to see if you qualify for help.
Financial Assistance
Andrew McDonough B+ Foundation
302-563-8389
Provides financial assistance to families of children with cancer for prescription medications not covered by insurance. They can also help with travel costs for treatment, mortgage payments or rent, and more.
Clayton Dabney Foundation
This foundation offers gifts, last wishes and financial assistance, which will facilitate quality of family life and create everlasting memories for low-income families of children under 18 with late stage cancer.
Family Reach
Provides financial assistance to families with a child or parent with cancer. They can help with mortgage, rent, utilities, lodging, and other non-medical expenses.
Oracle Health Foundation
www.oraclehealthfoundation.org/
816-201-1569
This foundation provides funding for children with whose families can’t afford medical care, equipment, vehicle modifications, or displacement related to care.
Friends 4 Michael
617-657-9630
Provides financial assistance for children who have been diagnosed with brain cancer. This fact sheet lists sources of financial assistance available to children and teenagers who are affected by cancer, including transportation and scholarship resources. Check with each agency or organization to see if you qualify for help.
Go 4 The Goal
Provides wish granting, assistance with household bills, travel for treatment, tuition assistance for education and enrichment activities and more. Requires referral from social worker or child life specialist.
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
800-955-4572
Offers financial assistance with insurance premiums and co-pays for specific blood cancers.
National Children’s Cancer Society
314-241-1600
Provides financial assistance for travel, lodging and other expenses.
Pinky Swear Foundation
952-974-9600
This foundation can help with financial assistance for families of children with cancer to help with rent, mortgages, car payments and car repairs, groceries, gas, childcare and more.
United Healthcare Children’s Foundation
855-698-4223
Provides financial assistance for medical costs not covered by insurance.
Travel Assistance
Alex’s Lemonade Stand
866.333.1213
Funding for transportation and lodging is available for eligible families who are financially burdened by traveling away from their home hospital for care that is only available elsewhere.
Compass to Care
563-231-0458
Funding for travel expenses to get to treatment.
Miracle Flights
800-359-1711
Helps fly children who are struggling with serious cancers and other debilitating diseases to specialized medical treatment centers across the U.S.
Patient Airlift Services (PALS)
631-694-PALS (7257)
Arranges volunteer medical flights for those who cannot afford commercial or charter flights.
Scholarships
Beyond the Cure Ambassador Scholarship Program
The National Children’s Cancer Society provides scholarships to childhood cancer survivors.
Cancer for College
760-599-5096
Provides college scholarships to cancer patients and survivors. Applicants must be U.S. citizens.
General Assistance
Children’s Cancer Association
503-244-3141
CCA’s Kids’ Cancer Pages is a national resource directory for families facing childhood cancer.
The Make-A-Wish Foundation
800-722-9474
Grants the wish of children diagnosed with a life-threatening medical condition.
The information provided here is purely informational and does not imply endorsement from CancerCare nor does it guarantee eligibility for assistance.
Edited by Leeann Medina-Martinez, LCSW
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