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Kelly Anne Dolan Memorial Fund

Uninsured Family Expenses Financial Assistance · About this organization

What you get

Help with family expenses that insurance does not cover. The amount isn't published. Ask.

How to start

Give your social worker or care team the unpaid bills and treatment details so they can upload a request through the secure portal.

Good to know

  • A healthcare professional must refer the family.
  • Only unmet expenses associated with your child's serious condition are considered.

The details, as published

B-ALL is in scope Open Care team starts the request

Provider-referred help with eligible uninsured family expenses for families of children with serious illness or disability in the fund's Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware service area; payment and award details depend on the reviewed request.

Go to the official program ↗

What help you may get

Household Bills And Cash Assistance

Uninsured Family Expenses Financial Assistance — household bills and cash assistance

Provider-referred help with eligible uninsured family expenses for families of children with serious illness or disability in the fund's Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware service area; payment and award details depend on the reviewed request.

Amount not published

Can cover

  • Adaptive equipment
  • Cable
  • Car payments
  • Electricity
  • Gas utility
  • Medical copays
  • Other essential needs not covered by insurance
  • Phone
  • Rent
  • Water
  • No award ceiling is published.

Medical And Insurance Costs

Uninsured Family Expenses Financial Assistance — medical and insurance costs

Provider-referred help with eligible uninsured family expenses for families of children with serious illness or disability in the fund's Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware service area; payment and award details depend on the reviewed request.

Amount not published

Can cover

  • Adaptive equipment
  • Cable
  • Car payments
  • Electricity
  • Gas utility
  • Medical copays
  • Other essential needs not covered by insurance
  • Phone
  • Rent
  • Water
  • No award ceiling is published.

Practical Items And Home Help

Uninsured Family Expenses Financial Assistance — practical items and home help

Provider-referred help with eligible uninsured family expenses for families of children with serious illness or disability in the fund's Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware service area; payment and award details depend on the reviewed request.

Amount not published

Can cover

  • Adaptive equipment
  • Cable
  • Car payments
  • Electricity
  • Gas utility
  • Medical copays
  • Other essential needs not covered by insurance
  • Phone
  • Rent
  • Water
  • No award ceiling is published.

Travel And Transportation

Uninsured Family Expenses Financial Assistance — travel and transportation

Provider-referred help with eligible uninsured family expenses for families of children with serious illness or disability in the fund's Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware service area; payment and award details depend on the reviewed request.

Amount not published

Can cover

  • Adaptive equipment
  • Cable
  • Car payments
  • Electricity
  • Gas utility
  • Medical copays
  • Other essential needs not covered by insurance
  • Phone
  • Rent
  • Water
  • No award ceiling is published.

Why this may help

Practical Items And Home Help: Adaptive equipment and other essential needs outside insurance can be included in your request.

Travel And Transportation: Car payments can be considered alongside the other essential bills insurance does not cover.

Check the main eligibility rules

Diagnosis

B-ALL is in scope. The published program scope includes pediatric cancer or serious childhood illness, so pediatric B-ALL is within the diagnosis category.

Age

The program does not publish an age limit.

  • The official pages use the word child without publishing a numeric age limit.

Treatment status

No specific treatment status is published.

  • A provider must verify the patient or diagnosis.
  • A healthcare professional must submit the referral.

Financial need is required.

  • No numeric income limit is published on the reviewed official pages.
  • The request must address an unmet cost related to the child’s condition and not covered by medical insurance.

Where you live and where your child is treated

Where your family lives

You must live in: DE, NJ, PA.

  • The family may reside in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, or Delaware.

Where your child is treated

Treatment must be connected to: A child receiving care in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, or Delaware may be referred..

  • A child receiving care in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, or Delaware may be referred.

How to get started

Set up the ask for my social worker

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: Healthcare Team, Social Worker

  1. A healthcare professional creates or signs into the secure portal.
  2. The fund reviews the request and pays an approved creditor directly.
  3. The referrer submits basic information about the child’s condition and treatment course.
  4. The referrer uploads bills for essential needs not covered by insurance.

Ways to apply or ask

Documents to prepare

  • Basic information about the child’s condition and treatment course
  • Bills for the requested essential needs
  • Approved bills are paid directly to creditors or vendors.

Availability and timing

ProgramActive
ApplicationsOpen
Funding or spaceFund Dependent
Application windowRolling
Last checkedAug 24, 2026
  • The current official page invites healthcare professionals to submit applications through the active portal.
  • The current official pages direct professionals to the active portal and do not publish a deadline.
  • The organization history states that it generally responds to critical needs within 24–72 hours.

Limitations and things to confirm

  • A healthcare professional must refer the family.
  • No numeric age limit, award ceiling, frequency rule, or complete eligibility checklist is public.
  • Only unmet expenses associated with the child’s serious condition are considered.
  • What award limit, frequency rule, income review, and expense exclusions apply?
  • What numeric age limit does the fund currently use?
  • Which healthcare-professional roles may create a portal account without prior approval?

Official sources

Program details were last verified Aug 24, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.

Official program