Families Raising Hope
Financial Assistance Program · About this organization
What you get
One-time help with an urgent housing, utility, grocery, or treatment-travel crisis. The amount isn't published. Ask.
How to start
Send the initial request. Full forms are expected within 24–48 hours; ask the treating office about sending verification.
Good to know
- Assistance is discretionary and subject to available funds.
- One award per patient.
The details, as published
Families Raising Hope provides one-time, discretionary, fund-dependent help to an Arizona cancer patient already receiving qualifying active therapy who faces an immediate crisis threatening essential housing, utilities, groceries, or transportation to treatment. The patient or immediate caregiver submits the public initial request, receives full forms within 24–48 hours, and the treating office sends treatment verification directly. Effective January 1, 2026, anyone previously assisted cannot reapply; no award cap or final decision time is published.
What help you may get
Household Bills And Cash Assistance
Financial Assistance Program — household bills and cash assistance
Families Raising Hope provides one-time, discretionary, fund-dependent help to an Arizona cancer patient already receiving qualifying active therapy who faces an immediate crisis threatening essential housing, utilities, groceries, or transportation to treatment. The patient or immediate caregiver submits the public initial request, receives full forms within 24–48 hours, and the treating office sends treatment verification directly. Effective January 1, 2026, anyone previously assisted cannot reapply; no award cap or final decision time is published.
Amount not published · One Time
Can cover
- Gas needed to travel to and from cancer treatment
- Groceries during food insecurity
- Past-due or disconnected utilities
- Past-due rent or mortgage in an eviction or foreclosure crisis
- No public award amount or ceiling is stated.
- Effective 2026-01-01, assistance is limited to one time per patient.
Meals And Food
Financial Assistance Program — meals and food
Families Raising Hope provides one-time, discretionary, fund-dependent help to an Arizona cancer patient already receiving qualifying active therapy who faces an immediate crisis threatening essential housing, utilities, groceries, or transportation to treatment. The patient or immediate caregiver submits the public initial request, receives full forms within 24–48 hours, and the treating office sends treatment verification directly. Effective January 1, 2026, anyone previously assisted cannot reapply; no award cap or final decision time is published.
Amount not published · One Time
Can cover
- Gas needed to travel to and from cancer treatment
- Groceries during food insecurity
- Past-due or disconnected utilities
- Past-due rent or mortgage in an eviction or foreclosure crisis
- No public award amount or ceiling is stated.
- Effective 2026-01-01, assistance is limited to one time per patient.
Travel And Transportation
Financial Assistance Program — travel and transportation
Families Raising Hope provides one-time, discretionary, fund-dependent help to an Arizona cancer patient already receiving qualifying active therapy who faces an immediate crisis threatening essential housing, utilities, groceries, or transportation to treatment. The patient or immediate caregiver submits the public initial request, receives full forms within 24–48 hours, and the treating office sends treatment verification directly. Effective January 1, 2026, anyone previously assisted cannot reapply; no award cap or final decision time is published.
Amount not published · One Time
Can cover
- Gas needed to travel to and from cancer treatment
- Groceries during food insecurity
- Past-due or disconnected utilities
- Past-due rent or mortgage in an eviction or foreclosure crisis
- No public award amount or ceiling is stated.
- Effective 2026-01-01, assistance is limited to one time per patient.
Why this may help
Meals And Food: An urgent grocery crisis can be included in a one-time request.
Travel And Transportation: Treatment-travel costs can be covered as part of an urgent financial crisis.
Check the main eligibility rules
Diagnosis
B-ALL is in scope. The program accepts any cancer in active treatment and publishes no age exclusion, so pediatric B-ALL is within the diagnosis scope.
Age
The program does not publish an age limit.
- The official page publishes no numerical age restriction.
Treatment status
Active Treatment
- A provider must verify the patient or diagnosis.
- The medical provider’s office must submit the Verification of Treatment form directly.
- The patient must be a legal U.S. citizen; permanent residency alone is expressly not accepted.
Financial need is required.
- The reviewed official pages do not publish a numerical income rule.
- Future, current-but-not-due, and anticipated expenses do not meet the dire-need definition.
- The applicant must face a documented immediate financial crisis threatening access to essential living necessities.
Where you live and where your child is treated
Where your family lives
You must live in: AZ.
- The patient must currently reside in Arizona and provide proof of an Arizona address.
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, Patient
- Ask the medical provider’s office to submit the Verification of Treatment directly.
- Complete the application and provide proof of Arizona address plus the urgent bill or receipt.
- Have the treating office submit Verification of Treatment directly; patient or caregiver submission disqualifies the request.
- Read the eligibility criteria and submit the initial online request.
- Receive the private application, checklist, and treatment-verification form by email within 24–48 hours.
- Submit the initial request as the patient or immediate caregiver.
- Wait for a discretionary decision based on need, urgency, and available funds.
- Watch for an email within 24–48 hours containing the application checklist, Application for Assistance, and Verification of Treatment.
Ways to apply or ask
- Online Portal · Open form or page
Documents to prepare
- Completed Application for Assistance
- Documented receipts or bills for the immediate crisis
- Proof of Arizona address, including a current Arizona driver’s license as stated on the page
- Verification of Treatment submitted directly by the medical provider’s office
- Approved funds are paid directly to the institution or organization providing the requested service.
- The organization may issue assistance as a gift card when it considers that appropriate.
Availability and timing
| Program | Active |
|---|---|
| Applications | Open |
| Funding or space | Fund Dependent |
| Application window | Rolling |
| Last checked | Aug 24, 2026 |
- The initial request form was active on 2026-08-23; funds are expressly limited and distributed based on need, urgency, and availability.
- The initial request form was available on the research date.
- Initial forms are emailed within 24–48 hours; final decision timing is not published.
- The program emails the required forms within 24–48 hours after the initial request; final-decision timing is not published.
Limitations and things to confirm
- Arizona residence and U.S. citizenship are required.
- Assistance is discretionary and subject to available funds.
- One award per patient.
- The crisis must involve an overdue or immediate essential need, not a future or current-but-not-due expense.
- The treating office must submit treatment verification directly.
- Are medical bills, copays, lodging, car payments, and repairs operationally eligible under the urgent-crisis rule?
- How does a pediatric patient satisfy the Arizona driver-license requirement?
- What maximum award, final timing, income review, and current fund capacity apply?
Official sources
Program details were last verified Aug 24, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.
- Request Assistance - Families Raising Hope · checked Aug 23, 2026
- Financial Assistance Program · checked Aug 24, 2026
- Financial Assistance Program · checked Aug 24, 2026