Katie's Handprint
Financial Grants · About this organization
What you get
Grants during active cancer treatment for food, groceries, medical bills, mortgage, essential bills, temporary housing, relocation, treatment travel, fuel and other essential expenses you choose.
How to start
Your social worker sends the referral.
Good to know
- You must be Alaskan and your child must be currently undergoing cancer treatment.
The details, as published
Katie's Handprint provides flexible financial grants through hospital social workers to Alaska families whose children are currently undergoing cancer treatment. Current official appeals identify treatment travel, housing, food, utilities, mortgage payments, medical bills, and other essential expenses, but a June 20, 2026 update reported funding strain and possible reductions from the $5,000 amount described in December 2025. Families should ask the child's social worker to confirm current intake, award size, and payment rules.
What help you may get
Household Bills And Cash Assistance
Financial Grants — household bills and cash assistance
Katie's Handprint provides flexible financial grants through hospital social workers to Alaska families whose children are currently undergoing cancer treatment. Current official appeals identify treatment travel, housing, food, utilities, mortgage payments, medical bills, and other essential expenses, but a June 20, 2026 update reported funding strain and possible reductions from the $5,000 amount described in December 2025. Families should ask the child's social worker to confirm current intake, award size, and payment rules.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Financial grant to reduce family financial strain during a child's active cancer treatment
- Food and groceries
- Medical bills
- Mortgage and other essential household bills
- Other family-selected essential expenses
- Temporary housing and relocation costs
- Treatment travel and fuel
- Utilities
- No standard family-grant amount or cap is published.
- The home page's separate “Hospice - 4 gifts at $20,000” impact statistic is not stated to be the ordinary financial-grant amount and must not be used as one.
- The official pages do not publish a repeat-grant or waiting-period rule.
Lodging Near Treatment
Financial Grants — lodging near treatment
Katie's Handprint provides flexible financial grants through hospital social workers to Alaska families whose children are currently undergoing cancer treatment. Current official appeals identify treatment travel, housing, food, utilities, mortgage payments, medical bills, and other essential expenses, but a June 20, 2026 update reported funding strain and possible reductions from the $5,000 amount described in December 2025. Families should ask the child's social worker to confirm current intake, award size, and payment rules.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Financial grant to reduce family financial strain during a child's active cancer treatment
- Food and groceries
- Medical bills
- Mortgage and other essential household bills
- Other family-selected essential expenses
- Temporary housing and relocation costs
- Treatment travel and fuel
- Utilities
- No standard family-grant amount or cap is published.
- The home page's separate “Hospice - 4 gifts at $20,000” impact statistic is not stated to be the ordinary financial-grant amount and must not be used as one.
- The official pages do not publish a repeat-grant or waiting-period rule.
Meals And Food
Financial Grants — meals and food
Katie's Handprint provides flexible financial grants through hospital social workers to Alaska families whose children are currently undergoing cancer treatment. Current official appeals identify treatment travel, housing, food, utilities, mortgage payments, medical bills, and other essential expenses, but a June 20, 2026 update reported funding strain and possible reductions from the $5,000 amount described in December 2025. Families should ask the child's social worker to confirm current intake, award size, and payment rules.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Financial grant to reduce family financial strain during a child's active cancer treatment
- Food and groceries
- Medical bills
- Mortgage and other essential household bills
- Other family-selected essential expenses
- Temporary housing and relocation costs
- Treatment travel and fuel
- Utilities
- No standard family-grant amount or cap is published.
- The home page's separate “Hospice - 4 gifts at $20,000” impact statistic is not stated to be the ordinary financial-grant amount and must not be used as one.
- The official pages do not publish a repeat-grant or waiting-period rule.
Medical And Insurance Costs
Financial Grants — medical and insurance costs
Katie's Handprint provides flexible financial grants through hospital social workers to Alaska families whose children are currently undergoing cancer treatment. Current official appeals identify treatment travel, housing, food, utilities, mortgage payments, medical bills, and other essential expenses, but a June 20, 2026 update reported funding strain and possible reductions from the $5,000 amount described in December 2025. Families should ask the child's social worker to confirm current intake, award size, and payment rules.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Financial grant to reduce family financial strain during a child's active cancer treatment
- Food and groceries
- Medical bills
- Mortgage and other essential household bills
- Other family-selected essential expenses
- Temporary housing and relocation costs
- Treatment travel and fuel
- Utilities
- No standard family-grant amount or cap is published.
- The home page's separate “Hospice - 4 gifts at $20,000” impact statistic is not stated to be the ordinary financial-grant amount and must not be used as one.
- The official pages do not publish a repeat-grant or waiting-period rule.
Travel And Transportation
Financial Grants — travel and transportation
Katie's Handprint provides flexible financial grants through hospital social workers to Alaska families whose children are currently undergoing cancer treatment. Current official appeals identify treatment travel, housing, food, utilities, mortgage payments, medical bills, and other essential expenses, but a June 20, 2026 update reported funding strain and possible reductions from the $5,000 amount described in December 2025. Families should ask the child's social worker to confirm current intake, award size, and payment rules.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Financial grant to reduce family financial strain during a child's active cancer treatment
- Food and groceries
- Medical bills
- Mortgage and other essential household bills
- Other family-selected essential expenses
- Temporary housing and relocation costs
- Treatment travel and fuel
- Utilities
- No standard family-grant amount or cap is published.
- The home page's separate “Hospice - 4 gifts at $20,000” impact statistic is not stated to be the ordinary financial-grant amount and must not be used as one.
- The official pages do not publish a repeat-grant or waiting-period rule.
Why this may help
Lodging Near Treatment: Temporary housing or relocation costs can be included in the flexible grant.
Meals And Food: Food and groceries are among the essential expenses you can select for assistance.
Medical And Insurance Costs: The flexible grant can go toward medical bills as well as household needs.
Travel And Transportation: Treatment travel and fuel can be included in the grant request.
Check the main eligibility rules
Diagnosis
B-ALL is in scope. The official page expressly serves Alaskan families whose children are currently undergoing cancer treatment, so a child age 0–18 in active treatment for B-ALL is within the stated scope.
Age
The program does not publish an age limit.
- The official pages say “children” and “childhood cancer” but publish no numerical age limit.
Treatment status
Active Treatment
- A provider must verify the patient or diagnosis.
- A hospital social worker must be involved in the grant request.
Financial need is required.
- The organization says the grants alleviate financial strain, but it publishes no income ceiling, household table, or formal means-test rule.
- The official site frames the grant as relief from financial strain caused by a child's cancer treatment, but does not publish the method used to assess need.
Where you live and where your child is treated
Where your family lives
You must live in: AK.
- The family must be an Alaskan family; the official site does not publish a minimum residence period or proof rule.
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? Yes. Ask your child’s social worker or care team to begin the request.
Who can start: Social Worker
- Ask the child's hospital social worker about a Katie's Handprint financial grant.
- Confirm the current eligible-expense, documentation, award, and payment rules through the social worker.
- Have the hospital social worker initiate or coordinate the request with Katie's Handprint.
Ways to apply or ask
- Hospital Workflow · Open form or page — The official site says financial grants are provided through hospital social workers; it does not publish a direct family application.
Documents to prepare
The program does not publish a document checklist. Ask before gathering paperwork.
- The official pages do not publish whether funds are paid to the family, a vendor, or by reimbursement.
Availability and timing
| Program | Active |
|---|---|
| Applications | Call To Confirm |
| Funding or space | Not Published |
| Application window | Call First |
| Last checked | Aug 24, 2026 |
- A June 20, 2026 appeal reported unprecedented application volume, serious strain on the grant fund, and possible award reductions.
- Current individual intake capacity, award size, and remaining funding are not published.
- The home page reports 193 grants, 143 families, 35 Alaska communities, and $653,250 total support as of 2026-03-20, confirming recent grant activity.
- The official site currently describes the grant and hospital-social-worker pathway.
- No public deadline or application window is published; the hospital social worker must confirm current intake.
- No review or payment timing is published.
Limitations and things to confirm
- A hospital social worker must initiate or coordinate the request.
- The current grant amount, frequency, financial test, required documents, review timing, payment method, and funding capacity are not published.
- The family must be Alaskan and the child must be currently undergoing cancer treatment.
- The official site does not publish the grant amount, frequency, expense categories, financial test, required documents, review timing, payment method, or current funding capacity.
- The separate hospice impact statistic is not an ordinary grant limit.
- Does Katie's Handprint pay the family, reimburse receipts, or pay vendors directly?
- How does a hospital social worker submit a request, and how long does review and payment take?
- Is intake currently open and how much funding remains available?
- What expenses can a grant pay, and what expenses are excluded?
- What financial-need test, income documents, bills, provider verification, or other records are required?
- What is the ordinary grant amount, annual or lifetime cap, and repeat-grant rule?
- What numerical age range does the program use for “children” or “childhood cancer”?
- What residence proof or duration establishes that a family is Alaskan?
Official sources
Program details were last verified Aug 24, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.
- Namesake, Founder, and Board of Directors — Katie's Handprint · checked Aug 24, 2026
- Namesake, Founder, and Board of Directors — Katie's Handprint · checked Aug 23, 2026
- Katie's Handprint Helping Families in Their Fight Against Childhood Cancer · checked Aug 24, 2026
- Katie's Handprint Helping Families in Their Fight Against Childhood Cancer · checked Aug 23, 2026
- News — Katie's Handprint · checked Aug 24, 2026