Kentucky Elks Association
Jim Bob Kevil Kids with Cancer Financial Assistance · About this organization
What you get
Up to $1,000 per family each year for medical copays, equipment, travel, food, and other approved needs.
How to start
Your social worker starts the request. Give them a copy of your bill.
Good to know
- Other payment routes must first deny the requested service.
- The standard maximum is $1,000 per family per year.
The details, as published
The Jim Bob Kevil Kids with Cancer fund considers Kentucky residents under 18 who are receiving cancer treatment and need an eligible expense paid after other sources, including insurance, deny it. A physician or assigned social worker refers the family and a practitioner verifies the denial. Current categories include medical copays, equipment and supplies, treatment travel, food, and emergency independence-related equipment or services; standard help is capped at $1,000 per family per year, paid directly to vendors, while larger catastrophic requests may receive quarterly review.
What help you may get
Meals And Food
Jim Bob Kevil Kids with Cancer Financial Assistance — meals and food
The Jim Bob Kevil Kids with Cancer fund considers Kentucky residents under 18 who are receiving cancer treatment and need an eligible expense paid after other sources, including insurance, deny it. A physician or assigned social worker refers the family and a practitioner verifies the denial. Current categories include medical copays, equipment and supplies, treatment travel, food, and emergency independence-related equipment or services; standard help is capped at $1,000 per family per year, paid directly to vendors, while larger catastrophic requests may receive quarterly review.
Amount not published · Once Per 12 Months
Can cover
- doctor copays
- Doctor copays
- emergency equipment and services enabling patient independence when no outside funding is available
- Emergency equipment and services that enable the patient’s independence when no outside funding source is available
- food
- Food
- hospital copays
- Hospital copays
- medical equipment
- Medical equipment
- medical supplies
- Medical supplies
- medicine copays
- Medicine copays
- travel expenses
- Travel expenses
Does not cover
- Requests lacking an invoice when an invoice applies
- Services for which other payment routes have not first denied coverage
- Catastrophic expenses above $1,000 are evaluated quarterly and may be covered partially or in full.
- The standard maximum is $1,000 per family per year.
- The form publishes a dollar maximum per family per year, not a maximum number of awards.
Medical And Insurance Costs
Jim Bob Kevil Kids with Cancer Financial Assistance — medical and insurance costs
The Jim Bob Kevil Kids with Cancer fund considers Kentucky residents under 18 who are receiving cancer treatment and need an eligible expense paid after other sources, including insurance, deny it. A physician or assigned social worker refers the family and a practitioner verifies the denial. Current categories include medical copays, equipment and supplies, treatment travel, food, and emergency independence-related equipment or services; standard help is capped at $1,000 per family per year, paid directly to vendors, while larger catastrophic requests may receive quarterly review.
Amount not published · Once Per 12 Months
Can cover
- doctor copays
- Doctor copays
- emergency equipment and services enabling patient independence when no outside funding is available
- Emergency equipment and services that enable the patient’s independence when no outside funding source is available
- food
- Food
- hospital copays
- Hospital copays
- medical equipment
- Medical equipment
- medical supplies
- Medical supplies
- medicine copays
- Medicine copays
- travel expenses
- Travel expenses
Does not cover
- Requests lacking an invoice when an invoice applies
- Services for which other payment routes have not first denied coverage
- Catastrophic expenses above $1,000 are evaluated quarterly and may be covered partially or in full.
- The standard maximum is $1,000 per family per year.
- The form publishes a dollar maximum per family per year, not a maximum number of awards.
Practical Items And Home Help
Jim Bob Kevil Kids with Cancer Financial Assistance — practical items and home help
The Jim Bob Kevil Kids with Cancer fund considers Kentucky residents under 18 who are receiving cancer treatment and need an eligible expense paid after other sources, including insurance, deny it. A physician or assigned social worker refers the family and a practitioner verifies the denial. Current categories include medical copays, equipment and supplies, treatment travel, food, and emergency independence-related equipment or services; standard help is capped at $1,000 per family per year, paid directly to vendors, while larger catastrophic requests may receive quarterly review.
Amount not published · Once Per 12 Months
Can cover
- doctor copays
- Doctor copays
- emergency equipment and services enabling patient independence when no outside funding is available
- Emergency equipment and services that enable the patient’s independence when no outside funding source is available
- food
- Food
- hospital copays
- Hospital copays
- medical equipment
- Medical equipment
- medical supplies
- Medical supplies
- medicine copays
- Medicine copays
- travel expenses
- Travel expenses
Does not cover
- Requests lacking an invoice when an invoice applies
- Services for which other payment routes have not first denied coverage
- Catastrophic expenses above $1,000 are evaluated quarterly and may be covered partially or in full.
- The standard maximum is $1,000 per family per year.
- The form publishes a dollar maximum per family per year, not a maximum number of awards.
Travel And Transportation
Jim Bob Kevil Kids with Cancer Financial Assistance — travel and transportation
The Jim Bob Kevil Kids with Cancer fund considers Kentucky residents under 18 who are receiving cancer treatment and need an eligible expense paid after other sources, including insurance, deny it. A physician or assigned social worker refers the family and a practitioner verifies the denial. Current categories include medical copays, equipment and supplies, treatment travel, food, and emergency independence-related equipment or services; standard help is capped at $1,000 per family per year, paid directly to vendors, while larger catastrophic requests may receive quarterly review.
Amount not published · Once Per 12 Months
Can cover
- doctor copays
- Doctor copays
- emergency equipment and services enabling patient independence when no outside funding is available
- Emergency equipment and services that enable the patient’s independence when no outside funding source is available
- food
- Food
- hospital copays
- Hospital copays
- medical equipment
- Medical equipment
- medical supplies
- Medical supplies
- medicine copays
- Medicine copays
- travel expenses
- Travel expenses
Does not cover
- Requests lacking an invoice when an invoice applies
- Services for which other payment routes have not first denied coverage
- Catastrophic expenses above $1,000 are evaluated quarterly and may be covered partially or in full.
- The standard maximum is $1,000 per family per year.
- The form publishes a dollar maximum per family per year, not a maximum number of awards.
- The published monetary limit is shared across the listed benefit components.
Why this may help
Meals And Food: Food costs can be included alongside treatment-related equipment and copayments.
Medical And Insurance Costs: Doctor, hospital, and medicine copays, plus medical supplies and equipment, address costs of your child's care.
Travel And Transportation: Travel expenses can be considered alongside medical copays and equipment.
Check the main eligibility rules
Diagnosis
B-ALL is in scope. A Kentucky-resident child under 18 receiving treatment for any cancer, including B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, may be considered.
Age
Age 0 to age 17, measured at treatment period.
- The application says any child under 18 receiving treatment for cancer is eligible for consideration.
Treatment status
No specific treatment status is published.
- A provider must verify the patient or diagnosis.
- The family must be referred by a physician or assigned social worker.
- Written verification from a licensed or certified health care practitioner must state that the requested services were denied through other payment routes such as insurance.
- The application requires verification that the requested service has been denied through other routes of payment, including insurance.
- The application does not publish a household-income ceiling.
- A licensed or certified health care practitioner must verify that the requested services were denied through other payment routes such as insurance.
Where you live and where your child is treated
Where your family lives
You must live in: KY.
- The applicant must be a Kentucky resident.
- The applicant must not reside in a state facility.
Where your child is treated
No treatment-location restriction is published.
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: Parent Or Guardian, Caregiver, Physician, Social Worker
- Ask the child’s physician or assigned social worker to review eligibility and provide the required referral.
- Supply the family and treatment facts and any applicable supplier or vendor invoice.
- Prepare the required written verification that other payment routes denied the requested service.
- Complete the current official application in full, obtain the parent and social-worker signatures, and assemble the attachments.
- Email the complete packet to the address on the current application and handle all questions and follow-up.
Ways to apply or ask
- Downloadable Form · Open form or page — The PDF is four pages and not an AcroForm; modification permission is not published.
- Email · martincharliea@gmail.com — The current official application prints this submission address; because the required professional signature is the referring social worker’s, the modeled submitter is limited to that role.
Documents to prepare
- Completed and signed Kids with Cancer financial-assistance application
- Supplier or vendor invoice showing patient name and cost, when applicable
- Written practitioner verification that other payment routes denied the requested service
- All payments are made directly to vendors.
Availability and timing
| Program | Active |
|---|---|
| Applications | Not Published |
| Funding or space | Fund Dependent |
| Application window | Rolling |
| Last checked | Aug 24, 2026 |
- The official site provides the application and the form says funds are limited and no request is guaranteed.
- Catastrophic requests above $1,000 are evaluated quarterly; no separate submission dates are published.
- No processing lead time is published.
- Catastrophic expenses above $1,000 are evaluated quarterly; standard-request review timing is not published.
Limitations and things to confirm
- All payments go directly to vendors.
- Funding is limited and assistance is not guaranteed.
- Other payment routes must first deny the requested service.
- The applicant must be a Kentucky resident under age 18 and may not reside in a state facility.
- The standard maximum is $1,000 per family per year.
- What annual period, review time, signature route, state-facility definition, category caps, renewal, travel-payment, privacy, and secure-transmission rules apply?
Official sources
Program details were last verified Aug 24, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.
- Kentucky Elks Association Jim Bob Kevil Kids with Cancer Financial Assistance Application · checked Aug 27, 2026
- Jim Bob Kevil Kids with Cancer Financial Assistance · checked Aug 24, 2026
- Jim Bob Kevil Kids with Cancer Financial Assistance · checked Aug 27, 2026
- Jim Bob Kevil Kids with Cancer Financial Assistance · checked Aug 27, 2026