Kids Cancer Fund
Financial Assistance Grants · About this organization
What you get
Gas vouchers, food and activity gift cards, licensed therapy, lodging near treatment, appointment rides, toys, room decorations, posters or a personalized blanket. The amount is not published. Ask.
How to start
Do not submit a new request while the official page says request is suspended.
Good to know
- No exact opening date or deadline is published.
The details, as published
Kids Cancer Fund's one financial-assistance umbrella may fund comfort gifts, partial temporary lodging, licensed emotional-support services, necessary treatment transportation or gas vouchers, and food or family-activity gift cards for a child with cancer. A parent or guardian completes the public PDF and obtains physician signature and clinic stamp, but the organization was not accepting new applications on August 24, 2026 while moving to an undated late-Q3 schedule. No service-area boundary, fixed award, repeat rule, submission method, or response time is published.
What help you may get
Household Bills And Cash Assistance
Financial Assistance Grants — household bills and cash assistance
Kids Cancer Fund's one financial-assistance umbrella may fund comfort gifts, partial temporary lodging, licensed emotional-support services, necessary treatment transportation or gas vouchers, and food or family-activity gift cards for a child with cancer. A parent or guardian completes the public PDF and obtains physician signature and clinic stamp, but the organization was not accepting new applications on August 24, 2026 while moving to an undated late-Q3 schedule. No service-area boundary, fixed award, repeat rule, submission method, or response time is published.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Gas vouchers
- Gift cards for food and family activities
- Licensed therapy or psychological support for family members
- Temporary lodging near treatment
- Toys, room decorations, posters, or personalized blankets for a hospitalized child
- Transportation to and from medical appointments
- The current page does not publish award amounts or limits.
- No repeat-assistance rule is published on the current page.
Lodging Near Treatment
Financial Assistance Grants — lodging near treatment
Kids Cancer Fund's one financial-assistance umbrella may fund comfort gifts, partial temporary lodging, licensed emotional-support services, necessary treatment transportation or gas vouchers, and food or family-activity gift cards for a child with cancer. A parent or guardian completes the public PDF and obtains physician signature and clinic stamp, but the organization was not accepting new applications on August 24, 2026 while moving to an undated late-Q3 schedule. No service-area boundary, fixed award, repeat rule, submission method, or response time is published.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Gas vouchers
- Gift cards for food and family activities
- Licensed therapy or psychological support for family members
- Temporary lodging near treatment
- Toys, room decorations, posters, or personalized blankets for a hospitalized child
- Transportation to and from medical appointments
- The current page does not publish award amounts or limits.
- No repeat-assistance rule is published on the current page.
Meals And Food
Financial Assistance Grants — meals and food
Kids Cancer Fund's one financial-assistance umbrella may fund comfort gifts, partial temporary lodging, licensed emotional-support services, necessary treatment transportation or gas vouchers, and food or family-activity gift cards for a child with cancer. A parent or guardian completes the public PDF and obtains physician signature and clinic stamp, but the organization was not accepting new applications on August 24, 2026 while moving to an undated late-Q3 schedule. No service-area boundary, fixed award, repeat rule, submission method, or response time is published.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Gas vouchers
- Gift cards for food and family activities
- Licensed therapy or psychological support for family members
- Temporary lodging near treatment
- Toys, room decorations, posters, or personalized blankets for a hospitalized child
- Transportation to and from medical appointments
- The current page does not publish award amounts or limits.
- No repeat-assistance rule is published on the current page.
Practical Items And Home Help
Financial Assistance Grants — practical items and home help
Kids Cancer Fund's one financial-assistance umbrella may fund comfort gifts, partial temporary lodging, licensed emotional-support services, necessary treatment transportation or gas vouchers, and food or family-activity gift cards for a child with cancer. A parent or guardian completes the public PDF and obtains physician signature and clinic stamp, but the organization was not accepting new applications on August 24, 2026 while moving to an undated late-Q3 schedule. No service-area boundary, fixed award, repeat rule, submission method, or response time is published.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Gas vouchers
- Gift cards for food and family activities
- Licensed therapy or psychological support for family members
- Temporary lodging near treatment
- Toys, room decorations, posters, or personalized blankets for a hospitalized child
- Transportation to and from medical appointments
- The current page does not publish award amounts or limits.
- No repeat-assistance rule is published on the current page.
Travel And Transportation
Financial Assistance Grants — travel and transportation
Kids Cancer Fund's one financial-assistance umbrella may fund comfort gifts, partial temporary lodging, licensed emotional-support services, necessary treatment transportation or gas vouchers, and food or family-activity gift cards for a child with cancer. A parent or guardian completes the public PDF and obtains physician signature and clinic stamp, but the organization was not accepting new applications on August 24, 2026 while moving to an undated late-Q3 schedule. No service-area boundary, fixed award, repeat rule, submission method, or response time is published.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Gas vouchers
- Gift cards for food and family activities
- Licensed therapy or psychological support for family members
- Temporary lodging near treatment
- Toys, room decorations, posters, or personalized blankets for a hospitalized child
- Transportation to and from medical appointments
- The current page does not publish award amounts or limits.
- No repeat-assistance rule is published on the current page.
Why this may help
Meals And Food: Food gift cards can be part of the grant alongside other treatment-period assistance.
Check the main eligibility rules
Diagnosis
B-ALL is in scope. The official program serves families caring for a child with cancer, which includes a U.S. child age 0–18 with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Age
The program does not publish an age limit.
- The current program page uses the term child but does not publish a numerical age limit.
Treatment status
No specific treatment status is published.
Financial need is required.
- The program says grants assist families in need, but it publishes no numerical income rule or household table.
Where you live and where your child is treated
Where your family lives
Residence coverage is not published clearly; confirm with the program.
- The reviewed program page does not publish a residence boundary; the organization is based in Clovis, California.
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
- Do not submit a new request while the official page says intake is suspended.
- If intake reopens, use the application linked from the official page and follow its current submission instructions.
- Recheck the official Grant Information page in late Q3 or email the organization to ask whether applications have reopened.
Ways to apply or ask
- Online Portal · Open form or page
Documents to prepare
The program does not publish a document checklist. Ask before gathering paperwork.
- Lodging is paid to the hotel, motel, or rental manager; counseling is paid to the licensed therapist or psychologist; transportation may be paid to a provider or supplied by gas voucher.
Availability and timing
| Program | Temporarily Suspended |
|---|---|
| Applications | Closed |
| Funding or space | Not Published |
| Application window | Not Published |
| Last checked | Aug 24, 2026 |
- The current official page explicitly states: 'We are not accepting new applications at this time.' It says the grant schedule is being adjusted to later in the year, in late Q3, but gives no exact reopening date.
- No exact opening date or deadline is published.
- Official page says no new applications are being accepted and the schedule will shift to late Q3.
- The organization says it is moving the grant schedule to late Q3 and is not accepting new applications as of August 24, 2026; no exact reopening date is published.
- No review time is published, and intake is currently suspended.
Limitations and things to confirm
- New applications are not being accepted as of August 24, 2026.
- The canonical program text says new applications are not being accepted.
- The current page does not publish a numerical age rule, geographic boundary, award limits, financial threshold, referral rule, required documents, or repeat-assistance rule.
- The linked application may change when intake reopens.
- The page says late Q3 but does not publish an exact reopening date.
- What geography, age interpretation, treatment rule, amount, repeats, review time, and publicity-consent options apply?
- When will intake reopen and how should a completed form be submitted?
Official sources
Program details were last verified Aug 24, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.
- Financial Assistance Grants · checked Aug 24, 2026
- Financial Assistance Grants · checked Aug 24, 2026