Cancer Cartel
Warrior Grant · About this organization
What you get
$1,000 for childcare, everyday living expenses, gas, groceries, rent or mortgage and utilities.
How to start
Your social worker sends the referral. Have diagnosis confirmation and proof of income ready.
Good to know
- A patient or caregiver cannot apply directly; a qualified hospital- or cancer-center-employed care-team professional must submit.
- Only designated hospital/treatment-center professionals may apply.
The details, as published
Cancer Cartel awards a one-time unrestricted $1,000 grant directly to a person with cancer who is in treatment or within 12 months after completing treatment. Only an approved hospital- or treatment-center-employed licensed social worker, case manager, or patient navigator may apply, and the monthly portal typically fills within minutes.
What help you may get
Childcare
Warrior Grant — childcare
Cancer Cartel awards a one-time unrestricted $1,000 grant directly to a person with cancer who is in treatment or within 12 months after completing treatment. Only an approved hospital- or treatment-center-employed licensed social worker, case manager, or patient navigator may apply, and the monthly portal typically fills within minutes.
$1,000
Can cover
- Childcare
- Everyday living expenses
- Gas
- Groceries
- Rent or mortgage
- Utilities
- Approved applicants receive $1,000 in unrestricted financial assistance.
- Each approved care-team submitter may submit one patient per portal opening; the official pages do not publish a patient lifetime or annual award limit.
Household Bills And Cash Assistance
Warrior Grant — household bills and cash assistance
Cancer Cartel awards a one-time unrestricted $1,000 grant directly to a person with cancer who is in treatment or within 12 months after completing treatment. Only an approved hospital- or treatment-center-employed licensed social worker, case manager, or patient navigator may apply, and the monthly portal typically fills within minutes.
$1,000
Can cover
- Childcare
- Everyday living expenses
- Gas
- Groceries
- Rent or mortgage
- Utilities
- Approved applicants receive $1,000 in unrestricted financial assistance.
- Each approved care-team submitter may submit one patient per portal opening; the official pages do not publish a patient lifetime or annual award limit.
Meals And Food
Warrior Grant — meals and food
Cancer Cartel awards a one-time unrestricted $1,000 grant directly to a person with cancer who is in treatment or within 12 months after completing treatment. Only an approved hospital- or treatment-center-employed licensed social worker, case manager, or patient navigator may apply, and the monthly portal typically fills within minutes.
$1,000
Can cover
- Childcare
- Everyday living expenses
- Gas
- Groceries
- Rent or mortgage
- Utilities
- Approved applicants receive $1,000 in unrestricted financial assistance.
- Each approved care-team submitter may submit one patient per portal opening; the official pages do not publish a patient lifetime or annual award limit.
Practical Items And Home Help
Warrior Grant — practical items and home help
Cancer Cartel awards a one-time unrestricted $1,000 grant directly to a person with cancer who is in treatment or within 12 months after completing treatment. Only an approved hospital- or treatment-center-employed licensed social worker, case manager, or patient navigator may apply, and the monthly portal typically fills within minutes.
$1,000
Can cover
- Childcare
- Everyday living expenses
- Gas
- Groceries
- Rent or mortgage
- Utilities
- Approved applicants receive $1,000 in unrestricted financial assistance.
- Each approved care-team submitter may submit one patient per portal opening; the official pages do not publish a patient lifetime or annual award limit.
Travel And Transportation
Warrior Grant — travel and transportation
Cancer Cartel awards a one-time unrestricted $1,000 grant directly to a person with cancer who is in treatment or within 12 months after completing treatment. Only an approved hospital- or treatment-center-employed licensed social worker, case manager, or patient navigator may apply, and the monthly portal typically fills within minutes.
$1,000
Can cover
- Childcare
- Everyday living expenses
- Gas
- Groceries
- Rent or mortgage
- Utilities
- Approved applicants receive $1,000 in unrestricted financial assistance.
- Each approved care-team submitter may submit one patient per portal opening; the official pages do not publish a patient lifetime or annual award limit.
- The published monetary limit is shared across the listed benefit components.
Why this may help
Childcare: The unrestricted $1,000 grant can go toward childcare if that is where you need it.
Meals And Food: You can use the unrestricted $1,000 grant to buy groceries.
Practical Items And Home Help: The $1,000 grant has no spending restriction, so it can cover practical purchases you need.
Travel And Transportation: You can put the unrestricted $1,000 toward transportation costs.
Check the main eligibility rules
Diagnosis
B-ALL is in scope. All cancer types and no published age exclusion make pediatric B-ALL potentially eligible, but minor rules are unconfirmed.
Age
The program does not publish an age limit.
- The reviewed official grant pages do not publish a minimum or maximum age.
Treatment status
Active Treatment, Within One Year Post Treatment
- The patient must be in active cancer treatment or within 12 months of completing treatment.
- A provider must verify the patient or diagnosis.
- A licensed social worker, case manager, or patient navigator directly employed by a hospital or cancer treatment center must submit the application.
- Third-party organizations, nonprofits, independent patient advocates, patients, caregivers, family members, and friends cannot submit.
Financial need is required.
- The application asks for the area of greatest financial need, but the official pages do not publish an income ceiling or income-document rule.
- Awards depend on available funding and are not guaranteed.
Where you live and where your child is treated
Where your family lives
Residence coverage is not published clearly; confirm with the program.
- Official pages describe nationwide demand but do not publish a residence, citizenship, or U.S.-territory eligibility rule.
Where your child is treated
Treatment-location rules are not published clearly; confirm with the program.
- The submitting professional must be directly employed by a hospital or cancer treatment center.
How to get started
Set up the ask for my social worker
Does a social worker or care team need to start it? Yes. Ask your child’s social worker or care team to begin the request.
Who can start: Healthcare Team, Social Worker
- Allow up to 90 days for review; the submitting professional is notified if a grant is awarded.
- Applications are reviewed monthly in received order and as funds permit; allow up to 90 days.
- Ask the hospital or cancer center social work, case-management, or patient-navigation team whether an eligible employee is approved to submit.
- Family contacts an eligible oncology social worker, case manager, or navigator in advance.
- If funded, Cancer Cartel notifies the submitter, who contacts the patient.
- Prepare the patient's legal name, mailing address, phone, email, cancer diagnosis and diagnosis date, treatment status, area of greatest financial need, and required physician documentation.
- Submitter applies immediately when the portal appears; each submitter may submit one Warrior per opening.
- Submitter prepares patient identity, contact, diagnosis, treatment status, greatest need, and official physician PDF.
- The approved care-team professional submits through the online portal as soon as it opens.
Ways to apply or ask
- Hospital Workflow · Open form or page — The online submission portal appears on the official site only during an open cycle; the portal was closed when checked.
- Online Portal · Open form or page
Documents to prepare
- Cancer diagnosis and date of diagnosis
- Confirmation of treatment status
- Description of the area of greatest financial need
- Patient contact and mailing information
- PDF diagnosis sheet or official diagnosis documentation from the attending physician
- Cancer Cartel provides the approved applicant with unrestricted $1,000 financial assistance; the reviewed pages do not publish the payment instrument or disbursement schedule.
Availability and timing
| Program | Active |
|---|---|
| Applications | Application Window Closed |
| Funding or space | Fund Dependent |
| Application window | Dated |
| Last checked | Aug 27, 2026 |
- The Warrior Grant page currently says the portal is closed and identifies October 1, 2026 at 9:00 AM Pacific as the next opening.
- Page literally says 9:00 AM PST; October is daylight time, so retain as 9:00 AM Pacific Time.
- Portal typically fills within minutes and skips the otherwise expected September opening for an unpublished reason.
- The care-team FAQ says the portal generally opens on the first business day of each month at 9:00 AM Pacific and reaches capacity within minutes.
- When checked on 2026-08-27, the grant page said the portal was closed and published October 1 at 9:00 AM Pacific as the next opening.
- Prepare all required information before an opening because the portal typically reaches capacity within minutes.
- Applications are reviewed monthly as funding becomes available, and processing may take up to 90 days.
Limitations and things to confirm
- A patient or caregiver cannot apply directly; a qualified hospital- or cancer-center-employed care-team professional must submit.
- One lifetime award per Warrior.
- Only designated hospital/treatment-center professionals may apply.
- Portal capacity fills quickly; a complete submission does not guarantee funding.
- Review may take up to 90 days.
- Submitting a complete application does not guarantee funding, and processing may take up to 90 days.
- The grant requires attending-physician diagnosis documentation.
- The official pages do not publish an age limit, income threshold, repeat-award rule, or payment instrument.
- The patient must be in active treatment or within 12 months after completing treatment.
- The portal is available only during short openings and usually reaches capacity within minutes.
- Confirm minor eligibility/payment/consent, residence/territories, treatment definitions, submitter designation, payment instrument, unfunded notification, 12-month measurement, and skipped September cycle.
Official sources
Program details were last verified Aug 24, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.
- Who We Are — Cancer Cartel · checked Aug 24, 2026
- Warrior Grant · checked Aug 24, 2026
- Warrior Grant · checked Aug 24, 2026
- Warrior Grant · checked Aug 24, 2026