The Jack Strong Foundation
Financial Assistance Grant · About this organization
What you get
Up to $500 per request for household expenses, treatment gas, lodging and meals, medical costs and supplies, and medicines insurance does not cover.
How to start
Fill in every page of the application. Have diagnosis confirmation ready.
Good to know
- Board approval is not promised.
- Ask how long a grant decision will take.
The details, as published
Need-based grants of up to $500 per family per year may help with medical costs, uncovered medication or supplies, treatment lodging, gas, meals, or household expenses. The child must be under 18 and in active cancer treatment; a parent or guardian applies and a social worker or physician verifies the medical section.
What help you may get
Household Bills And Cash Assistance
Financial Assistance Grant — household bills and cash assistance
Need-based grants of up to $500 per family per year may help with medical costs, uncovered medication or supplies, treatment lodging, gas, meals, or household expenses. The child must be under 18 and in active cancer treatment; a parent or guardian applies and a social worker or physician verifies the medical section.
Up to $500 · Once Per 12 Months
Can cover
- Everyday household living expenses
- Gas for treatment travel
- Lodging for treatment travel
- Medical expenses
- Medical expenses and supplies
- Medications not covered by insurance
- Treatment lodging, gas, and meals
- Uncovered medications
- Grants are up to $500 per family per year.
- The public ceiling is one annual family maximum of $500.
Lodging Near Treatment
Financial Assistance Grant — lodging near treatment
Need-based grants of up to $500 per family per year may help with medical costs, uncovered medication or supplies, treatment lodging, gas, meals, or household expenses. The child must be under 18 and in active cancer treatment; a parent or guardian applies and a social worker or physician verifies the medical section.
Up to $500 · Once Per 12 Months
Can cover
- Everyday household living expenses
- Gas for treatment travel
- Lodging for treatment travel
- Medical expenses
- Medical expenses and supplies
- Medications not covered by insurance
- Treatment lodging, gas, and meals
- Uncovered medications
- Grants are up to $500 per family per year.
- The public ceiling is one annual family maximum of $500.
Medical And Insurance Costs
Financial Assistance Grant — medical and insurance costs
Need-based grants of up to $500 per family per year may help with medical costs, uncovered medication or supplies, treatment lodging, gas, meals, or household expenses. The child must be under 18 and in active cancer treatment; a parent or guardian applies and a social worker or physician verifies the medical section.
Up to $500 · Once Per 12 Months
Can cover
- Everyday household living expenses
- Gas for treatment travel
- Lodging for treatment travel
- Medical expenses
- Medical expenses and supplies
- Medications not covered by insurance
- Treatment lodging, gas, and meals
- Uncovered medications
- Grants are up to $500 per family per year.
- The public ceiling is one annual family maximum of $500.
Travel And Transportation
Financial Assistance Grant — travel and transportation
Need-based grants of up to $500 per family per year may help with medical costs, uncovered medication or supplies, treatment lodging, gas, meals, or household expenses. The child must be under 18 and in active cancer treatment; a parent or guardian applies and a social worker or physician verifies the medical section.
Up to $500 · Once Per 12 Months
Can cover
- Everyday household living expenses
- Gas for treatment travel
- Lodging for treatment travel
- Medical expenses
- Medical expenses and supplies
- Medications not covered by insurance
- Treatment lodging, gas, and meals
- Uncovered medications
- Grants are up to $500 per family per year.
- The public ceiling is one annual family maximum of $500.
- The published monetary limit is shared across the listed benefit components.
Why this may help
Lodging Near Treatment: The grant can go toward lodging while you travel for treatment.
Medical And Insurance Costs: Uncovered medications, medical expenses and supplies can be included in the grant request.
Travel And Transportation: Gas for treatment travel is one of the expenses the grant can cover.
Check the main eligibility rules
Diagnosis
B-ALL is in scope. A child under 18 in active treatment for B-ALL falls within the published pediatric-cancer scope.
Age
Age 0 to age 17, measured at application.
- The page uses “child” and “pediatric cancer” without a numerical age rule.
Treatment status
No specific treatment status is published.
Financial need is required.
- The program requires treatment-related financial need but publishes no numerical income rule.
Where you live and where your child is treated
Where your family lives
You must live in: East Coast of the United States.
- The family must be in West Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, or the foundation’s East Coast service area.
- The named states are retained; the additional East Coast area has no org-defined state list and is unresolved. No regional enumeration invented.
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
- Complete every page of the application.
- Complete the financial-assistance application on the official page.
- Email the signed form to JackStrongFoundation@gmail.com or mail it to P.O. Box 395, Bridgeport, WV 26330.
- Obtain the social-worker and/or physician medical verification.
- Provide information about the child’s treatment-related financial need and requested expense.
- The foundation board reviews and processes the application.
- Wait for the foundation to communicate its decision.
Ways to apply or ask
- Downloadable Form · Open form or page — Two-page non-fillable PDF; all pages must be completed and signed.
- Email · JackStrongFoundation@gmail.com — Email the complete signed package.
- Mail — Mail the complete signed package to P.O. Box 395, Bridgeport, WV 26330.
Documents to prepare
- Completed application
- Medical verification signed by a social worker and/or physician
- The board approves grants; the public page does not state whether payment goes to the family or a vendor.
Availability and timing
| Program | Active |
|---|---|
| Applications | Open |
| Funding or space | Fund Dependent |
| Application window | Rolling |
| Last checked | Aug 24, 2026 |
- The current official program page still links the two-page application PDF; the PDF itself has no recent revision label.
- Awards depend on donations received.
- Awards depend on donations.
- No processing lead time is published.
Limitations and things to confirm
- Awards depend on donations and board review.
- Board approval is not guaranteed.
- No income threshold, review time, payment method, or detailed documentation rule is published.
- The annual maximum is $500.
- The family must be within the published multistate or East Coast service area.
- The financial need must be connected to the child’s cancer treatment.
- The form contains medical-information and publicity permissions; review them before submission.
- Is intake active in 2026, how is financial need documented, and how are approved expenses paid?
Official sources
Program details were last verified Aug 24, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.
- Financial Assistance — The Jack Strong Foundation · checked Aug 23, 2026
- Financial Assistance Grant · checked Aug 26, 2026
- Financial Assistance Grant · checked Aug 26, 2026