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Interior Alaska Cancer Association

Financial Assistance · About this organization

What you get

The fund pays bills straight to the company for treatment travel, rides, housing, utilities, prescriptions, childcare, groceries and gas, for anyone with cancer. They don't say how much they give.

How to start

Download the application, fill in every field, ask your child's doctor for a signed letter, and email both to info@interioralaskacancer.org.

Good to know

  • You need to live in the Interior more than half the year.
  • The fund helps only when no other program or insurance covers the cost.

The details, as published

B-ALL is in scope Open

The Interior Alaska Cancer Association, an all-volunteer Fairbanks nonprofit, pays bills directly to vendors for cancer patients and their families who live in Interior Alaska more than six months a year. Help can cover travel to treatment, local transportation, housing and utilities, prescriptions insurance does not cover, childcare, groceries and gas. Applicants send the application with a signed physician statement by email; the fund helps only when no other program or insurance covers the cost, and no amount is printed.

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What help you may get

Household Bills And Cash Assistance

Housing, utility and other bills paid to the vendor

Housing and utility bills and other requests paid directly to the vendor.

Amount not published · As Needed

Can cover

  • housing
  • utilities
  • gas
  • No amount or cap is printed; the board may set limits.

Travel And Transportation

Travel to treatment and local transportation

Travel expenses to treatment locations and local transportation, paid to the vendor.

Amount not published · As Needed

Can cover

  • travel to treatment locations
  • local transportation
  • gas
  • No amount or cap is printed; the board may set limits.

Medical And Insurance Costs

Non-covered prescriptions and treatment costs

Prescriptions insurance does not cover and treatment costs, paid to the vendor.

Amount not published · As Needed

Can cover

  • non-covered prescriptions
  • treatment costs
  • No amount or cap is printed; the board may set limits.

Lodging Near Treatment

Hotel costs

Hotel costs while traveling for treatment, paid to the vendor.

Amount not published · As Needed

Can cover

  • hotel costs
  • No amount or cap is printed; the board may set limits.

Meals And Food

Groceries

Groceries and food, paid to the vendor.

Amount not published · As Needed

Can cover

  • groceries
  • No amount or cap is printed; the board may set limits.

Childcare

Childcare

Childcare costs, paid to the provider.

Amount not published · As Needed

Can cover

  • childcare
  • No amount or cap is printed; the board may set limits.

Why this may help

Medical And Insurance Costs: The fund can pay prescriptions and treatment costs your insurance leaves unpaid.

Lodging Near Treatment: The fund can pay hotel costs while you travel for treatment.

Meals And Food: The fund can pay for your groceries.

Childcare: The fund can pay a childcare bill for your other children.

Check the main eligibility rules

Diagnosis

B-ALL is in scope. The fund helps cancer patients and families in Interior Alaska with no diagnosis or age limit printed; a child with B-ALL fits.

Age

The program does not publish an age limit.

  • No age limit is printed on the pages read.

Treatment status

Active Treatment

  • The physician statement must confirm the patient is currently in the physician's care for cancer.
  • A signed statement from the patient's physician (MD or DO licensed in Alaska) confirming current cancer care.
  • Help is given only when no comparable agency, insurance or other program assistance is available.

Financial need is required.

  • No income limit is printed; the fund is for financial challenges during treatment.
  • Payer of last resort after other programs and insurance.

Where you live and where your child is treated

Where your family lives

You must live in: Interior Alaska as defined by the IACA board (a map on the Services page), including Fairbanks, North Pole, Eagle, Tok, Delta Junction, Nenana, Anderson, Healy, Cantwell and more; other parts of Alaska are not served.

  • The applicant must be a resident of Interior Alaska, as defined by the IACA Board of Directors, and must reside in Interior Alaska for greater than 6 months out of the year.
  • Includes: Fairbanks, North Pole, Eagle, Tok, Delta Junction, Nenana, Anderson, Healy, Cantwell and more.

Where your child is treated

Treatment-location rules are not published clearly; confirm with the program.

  • No treating hospital is required; the physician who signs must be licensed in Alaska.

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, Patient

  1. Download the application and state the type and amount of help needed.
  2. The physician signs a statement confirming current cancer care.
  3. Email the application and statement to the association.

Ways to apply or ask

Documents to prepare

  • Financial Assistance Application stating the type and amount requested
  • Signed physician statement confirming current cancer care
  • Payments go directly to the vendor; no cash is given.

Availability and timing

ProgramActive
ApplicationsOpen
Funding or spaceFund Dependent
Application windowRolling
Last checkedSep 29, 2026
  • Application page read 2026-09-29 offers the current form and email submission.
  • Decisions are made as soon as possible; no deadline is printed.

Limitations and things to confirm

  • Payer of last resort: help only when no other program or insurance covers the cost.
  • No amount is printed and the board may set limits.
  • All-volunteer organization.

Official sources

Program details were last verified Sep 29, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.

Official program