American Children’s Cancer Benevolence Fund
Benevolence Assistance · About this organization
What you get
Up to $1,500 per person or family per calendar year for housing, utilities, food, medical costs, funeral costs, treatment travel, and lodging.
How to start
Ask for an application, fill it in, and gather the documents it requests.
Good to know
- Approval and amount depend on documented need and available funds.
- The linked PDF filename dates from 2022; applicants should use the current request page or confirm that the PDF remains accepted.
The details, as published
American Children’s Cancer Benevolence Fund, a program administered by A Warriors Mission, offers case-by-case direct-pay grants for a child with cancer or a cancer survivor within four years of remission. The official site lists housing, utilities, food, medical care and prescriptions, funeral costs, transportation to treatment, and lodging near a distant medical facility as typical needs. A family or another person may request an application, submit the completed form and supporting documents, and the committee reviews requests first come, first served. Approval and the award amount depend on the family's documented need and current available funds.
What help you may get
Bereavement And Memorial Support
Benevolence Assistance — bereavement and memorial support
American Children’s Cancer Benevolence Fund, a program administered by A Warriors Mission, offers case-by-case direct-pay grants for a child with cancer or a cancer survivor within four years of remission. The official site lists housing, utilities, food, medical care and prescriptions, funeral costs, transportation to treatment, and lodging near a distant medical facility as typical needs. A family or another person may request an application, submit the completed form and supporting documents, and the committee reviews requests first come, first served. Approval and the award amount depend on the family's documented need and current available funds.
Amount decided by the program
Can cover
- Food
- Funeral expenses
- Housing and living expenses
- Lodging near a distant medical facility
- Medical expenses, treatment, and prescriptions
- Transportation to or from medical treatment
- Utilities
Does not cover
- Business investments, ventures, or other profit-producing uses
- Credit-card payoff except a possible crisis or emergency exception
- Fines, legal fees, and penalties from late payments or unlawful conduct
- School expenses and private-school tuition
- The amount for this component is committee-determined within the shared $1,500 per-person-or-family calendar-year cap.
- The standard cap is $1,500 per person or family per calendar year; unusual additional help may be considered as funding permits.
Household Bills And Cash Assistance
Benevolence Assistance — household bills and cash assistance
American Children’s Cancer Benevolence Fund, a program administered by A Warriors Mission, offers case-by-case direct-pay grants for a child with cancer or a cancer survivor within four years of remission. The official site lists housing, utilities, food, medical care and prescriptions, funeral costs, transportation to treatment, and lodging near a distant medical facility as typical needs. A family or another person may request an application, submit the completed form and supporting documents, and the committee reviews requests first come, first served. Approval and the award amount depend on the family's documented need and current available funds.
Amount decided by the program
Can cover
- Food
- Funeral expenses
- Housing and living expenses
- Lodging near a distant medical facility
- Medical expenses, treatment, and prescriptions
- Transportation to or from medical treatment
- Utilities
Does not cover
- Business investments, ventures, or other profit-producing uses
- Credit-card payoff except a possible crisis or emergency exception
- Fines, legal fees, and penalties from late payments or unlawful conduct
- School expenses and private-school tuition
- The amount for this component is committee-determined within the shared $1,500 per-person-or-family calendar-year cap.
- The standard cap is $1,500 per person or family per calendar year; unusual additional help may be considered as funding permits.
Lodging Near Treatment
Benevolence Assistance — lodging near treatment
American Children’s Cancer Benevolence Fund, a program administered by A Warriors Mission, offers case-by-case direct-pay grants for a child with cancer or a cancer survivor within four years of remission. The official site lists housing, utilities, food, medical care and prescriptions, funeral costs, transportation to treatment, and lodging near a distant medical facility as typical needs. A family or another person may request an application, submit the completed form and supporting documents, and the committee reviews requests first come, first served. Approval and the award amount depend on the family's documented need and current available funds.
Amount decided by the program
Can cover
- Food
- Funeral expenses
- Housing and living expenses
- Lodging near a distant medical facility
- Medical expenses, treatment, and prescriptions
- Transportation to or from medical treatment
- Utilities
Does not cover
- Business investments, ventures, or other profit-producing uses
- Credit-card payoff except a possible crisis or emergency exception
- Fines, legal fees, and penalties from late payments or unlawful conduct
- School expenses and private-school tuition
- The amount for this component is committee-determined within the shared $1,500 per-person-or-family calendar-year cap.
- The standard cap is $1,500 per person or family per calendar year; unusual additional help may be considered as funding permits.
Meals And Food
Benevolence Assistance — meals and food
American Children’s Cancer Benevolence Fund, a program administered by A Warriors Mission, offers case-by-case direct-pay grants for a child with cancer or a cancer survivor within four years of remission. The official site lists housing, utilities, food, medical care and prescriptions, funeral costs, transportation to treatment, and lodging near a distant medical facility as typical needs. A family or another person may request an application, submit the completed form and supporting documents, and the committee reviews requests first come, first served. Approval and the award amount depend on the family's documented need and current available funds.
Amount decided by the program
Can cover
- Food
- Funeral expenses
- Housing and living expenses
- Lodging near a distant medical facility
- Medical expenses, treatment, and prescriptions
- Transportation to or from medical treatment
- Utilities
Does not cover
- Business investments, ventures, or other profit-producing uses
- Credit-card payoff except a possible crisis or emergency exception
- Fines, legal fees, and penalties from late payments or unlawful conduct
- School expenses and private-school tuition
- The amount for this component is committee-determined within the shared $1,500 per-person-or-family calendar-year cap.
- The standard cap is $1,500 per person or family per calendar year; unusual additional help may be considered as funding permits.
Medical And Insurance Costs
Benevolence Assistance — medical and insurance costs
American Children’s Cancer Benevolence Fund, a program administered by A Warriors Mission, offers case-by-case direct-pay grants for a child with cancer or a cancer survivor within four years of remission. The official site lists housing, utilities, food, medical care and prescriptions, funeral costs, transportation to treatment, and lodging near a distant medical facility as typical needs. A family or another person may request an application, submit the completed form and supporting documents, and the committee reviews requests first come, first served. Approval and the award amount depend on the family's documented need and current available funds.
Amount decided by the program
Can cover
- Food
- Funeral expenses
- Housing and living expenses
- Lodging near a distant medical facility
- Medical expenses, treatment, and prescriptions
- Transportation to or from medical treatment
- Utilities
Does not cover
- Business investments, ventures, or other profit-producing uses
- Credit-card payoff except a possible crisis or emergency exception
- Fines, legal fees, and penalties from late payments or unlawful conduct
- School expenses and private-school tuition
- The amount for this component is committee-determined within the shared $1,500 per-person-or-family calendar-year cap.
- The standard cap is $1,500 per person or family per calendar year; unusual additional help may be considered as funding permits.
Travel And Transportation
Benevolence Assistance — travel and transportation
American Children’s Cancer Benevolence Fund, a program administered by A Warriors Mission, offers case-by-case direct-pay grants for a child with cancer or a cancer survivor within four years of remission. The official site lists housing, utilities, food, medical care and prescriptions, funeral costs, transportation to treatment, and lodging near a distant medical facility as typical needs. A family or another person may request an application, submit the completed form and supporting documents, and the committee reviews requests first come, first served. Approval and the award amount depend on the family's documented need and current available funds.
Amount decided by the program
Can cover
- Food
- Funeral expenses
- Housing and living expenses
- Lodging near a distant medical facility
- Medical expenses, treatment, and prescriptions
- Transportation to or from medical treatment
- Utilities
Does not cover
- Business investments, ventures, or other profit-producing uses
- Credit-card payoff except a possible crisis or emergency exception
- Fines, legal fees, and penalties from late payments or unlawful conduct
- School expenses and private-school tuition
- The amount for this component is committee-determined within the shared $1,500 per-person-or-family calendar-year cap.
- The standard cap is $1,500 per person or family per calendar year; unusual additional help may be considered as funding permits.
- The published monetary limit is shared across the listed benefit components.
Why this may help
Bereavement And Memorial Support: The grant can pay funeral expenses as well as costs during treatment.
Lodging Near Treatment: Lodging near a distant medical center is one of the costs this grant can pay.
Meals And Food: Food costs can be included in the same request as other essential bills.
Travel And Transportation: The grant includes transportation to and from treatment.
Check the main eligibility rules
Diagnosis
B-ALL is in scope. The official request pages accept assistance requests for a child with cancer, including U.S. families; B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia is a qualifying childhood cancer diagnosis.
Age
The program does not publish an age limit.
- The official pages use the term child but do not publish a numerical age limit.
Treatment status
No specific treatment status is published.
Financial need is required.
- The fund prioritizes persons with the greatest financial need but publishes no numerical income ceiling or household table.
- Approval is case by case and depends on the information and supporting documents submitted and the funds currently available.
Where you live and where your child is treated
Where your family lives
Residence coverage is not published clearly; confirm with the program.
- The organization describes serving U.S. families and families beyond the United States, but the assistance pages do not publish a residence boundary or jurisdiction-specific rules.
Where your child is treated
No treatment-location restriction is published.
How to get started
Does a social worker or care team need to start it? No. A required care-team start is not published; the family can use the available route below.
Who can start: Caregiver, Parent Or Guardian, Patient
- Complete the entire application and gather all supporting documents requested by the form.
- Respond if the committee requests further information by phone, mail, or email.
- Submit the application as early as possible because complete requests are reviewed first come, first served.
- Use the official request form to ask for an assistance application or download the linked application.
Ways to apply or ask
- Online Portal · Open form or page
- Online Portal · Open form or page
Documents to prepare
- Completed Benevolence Request Application
- Supporting documents required by the application for the requested product, service, or bill
- If approved, payment is made directly to the product or service provider identified in the application.
Availability and timing
| Program | Active |
|---|---|
| Applications | Open |
| Funding or space | Fund Dependent |
| Application window | Rolling |
| Last checked | Aug 27, 2026 |
- The current official page provides an active request route. Approval is case by case and expressly depends on current funds.
- Requests are accepted through the current page and reviewed first come, first served; no seasonal deadline is published.
- The current request page states that committee review may take from 5 to 90 business days.
- A minimum of 5 business days and a maximum of 90 business days according to the current request page.
Limitations and things to confirm
- Approval and amount depend on documented need and available funds.
- The standard assistance cap is $1,500 per person or family per calendar year; unusual repeat or additional help remains discretionary and funding-dependent.
- The linked PDF filename dates from 2022; applicants should use the current request page or confirm that the PDF remains accepted.
- The official pages do not publish a numerical age limit or precise geographic boundary.
- The review may take as long as 90 business days and incomplete supporting documents may void or delay a request.
- Is the PDF labeled 2022 still the current accepted application?
- What facts and circumstances qualify a family for an unusual repeat or above-cap award?
- What numerical age and geographic rules apply?
- What proof of diagnosis, income, and financial need is required with the current application?
Official sources
Program details were last verified Aug 24, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.
- Contact ACCBF · checked Aug 24, 2026
- Request Application for Assistance · checked Aug 24, 2026
- Request Assistance · checked Aug 24, 2026