Gold In Fight
Emergency Financial Grant · About this organization
What you get
Help with gas for hospital trips, housing costs, meals, other urgent bill requests reviewed by the organization, and utility bills.
How to start
Send the online assistance form with your child's care-team contact and bill details, then email a copy of the bill.
Good to know
- Only one application is permitted per rolling 12 months.
- The program does not publish a standard award ceiling or income rule.
The details, as published
A parent or guardian may apply for Gold In Fight bill assistance when a child has cancer treatment in Maryland, including through two years after treatment. Published examples include rent, utilities, groceries, gas for hospital travel, meals, and other urgent essentials. Families may apply once per rolling 12 months, submit one bill and provider contact for verification, and use the public form; no numeric child-age rule, award cap, medical-expense policy, or decision time is published.
What help you may get
Household Bills And Cash Assistance
Emergency Financial Grant — household bills and cash assistance
A parent or guardian may apply for Gold In Fight bill assistance when a child has cancer treatment in Maryland, including through two years after treatment. Published examples include rent, utilities, groceries, gas for hospital travel, meals, and other urgent essentials. Families may apply once per rolling 12 months, submit one bill and provider contact for verification, and use the public form; no numeric child-age rule, award cap, medical-expense policy, or decision time is published.
Amount decided by the program · Once Per 12 Months
Can cover
- Gas for hospital trips
- Housing costs
- Meals
- Other urgent bill requests reviewed by the organization
- Utility bills
- The application asks for the amount and bill to be paid; no standard ceiling is published.
- Families may apply once every rolling 12 months.
Meals And Food
Emergency Financial Grant — meals and food
A parent or guardian may apply for Gold In Fight bill assistance when a child has cancer treatment in Maryland, including through two years after treatment. Published examples include rent, utilities, groceries, gas for hospital travel, meals, and other urgent essentials. Families may apply once per rolling 12 months, submit one bill and provider contact for verification, and use the public form; no numeric child-age rule, award cap, medical-expense policy, or decision time is published.
Amount decided by the program · Once Per 12 Months
Can cover
- Gas for hospital trips
- Housing costs
- Meals
- Other urgent bill requests reviewed by the organization
- Utility bills
- The application asks for the amount and bill to be paid; no standard ceiling is published.
- Families may apply once every rolling 12 months.
Travel And Transportation
Emergency Financial Grant — travel and transportation
A parent or guardian may apply for Gold In Fight bill assistance when a child has cancer treatment in Maryland, including through two years after treatment. Published examples include rent, utilities, groceries, gas for hospital travel, meals, and other urgent essentials. Families may apply once per rolling 12 months, submit one bill and provider contact for verification, and use the public form; no numeric child-age rule, award cap, medical-expense policy, or decision time is published.
Amount decided by the program · Once Per 12 Months
Can cover
- Gas for hospital trips
- Housing costs
- Meals
- Other urgent bill requests reviewed by the organization
- Utility bills
- The application asks for the amount and bill to be paid; no standard ceiling is published.
- Families may apply once every rolling 12 months.
- The published monetary limit is shared across the listed benefit components.
Why this may help
Meals And Food: Meals can be included among the urgent bills you ask the organization to help pay.
Travel And Transportation: Gas for hospital trips can be included in an emergency grant request.
Check the main eligibility rules
Diagnosis
B-ALL is in scope. The official program serves children with cancer or children with serious medical conditions that include cancer; pediatric B-ALL is within that scope.
Age
The program does not publish an age limit.
- The application describes a child but does not publish a numerical age limit.
Treatment status
Active Treatment
- A provider must verify the patient or diagnosis.
- The family must provide the name and contact number of the child’s oncologist or social worker for treatment verification.
Financial need is required.
- No numerical income threshold is published on the reviewed pages.
Where you live and where your child is treated
Where your family lives
Residence coverage is not published clearly; confirm with the program.
Where your child is treated
Treatment must be in: The child must be receiving cancer treatment in Maryland..
- The child must be receiving cancer treatment in Maryland.
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: Parent Or Guardian
- Complete the online family assistance request.
- Confirm that the child is receiving cancer treatment in Maryland and that no assistance was received in the prior rolling 12 months.
- Email a copy of the bill to the organization.
- Identify the bill, payee, amount, account information, and the child’s oncologist or social worker.
- The organization reviews the request and contacts the family.
Ways to apply or ask
- Email · goldinfight@goldinfight.org — Email a copy of the bill requested for payment.
- Online Portal · Open form or page
Documents to prepare
- Child and guardian contact information
- Copy of the bill requested for payment
- Oncologist or social-worker contact information
- The request form collects vendor and account information so the requested bill can be paid.
Availability and timing
| Program | Active |
|---|---|
| Applications | Open |
| Funding or space | Fund Dependent |
| Application window | Rolling |
| Last checked | Aug 24, 2026 |
- The official site presented the program as active on the verification date.
- One application is allowed in each rolling 12-month period and up to two years after treatment.
- The official program description states that applications are reviewed quickly but does not publish a fixed turnaround time.
Limitations and things to confirm
- Only one application is permitted per rolling 12 months.
- The program does not publish a standard award ceiling or income rule.
- The public application currently limits eligibility to children receiving cancer treatment in Maryland.
- Confirm nationwide versus Maryland grant access, age, cap, medical bills, direct payment, decision time, privacy, and language access.
- Does the Maryland-treatment restriction on the live application supersede the About page’s nationwide-service statement, and what award cap, decision time, and payment confirmation apply?
Official sources
Program details were last verified Aug 24, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.
- About Us — Gold In Fight · checked Aug 23, 2026
- Request Assistance — Gold In Fight · checked Aug 23, 2026
- Emergency Financial Grant · checked Aug 24, 2026
- Emergency Financial Grant · checked Aug 24, 2026