Miracle Travel Works
Financial Assistance · About this organization
What you get
Reimbursement toward your child’s medical travel, lodging and food.
How to start
Complete Miracle Travel Works’ family application with your child’s treatment details and estimated trip costs.
Good to know
- Keep itemized receipts. You need them for reimbursement, not the first application.
- Apply before traveling when possible so MTW can consider reserving money for your trip.
The details, as published
You can request help paying for a trip to your child’s urgent medical care. Fill out the family application with the treatment details and your estimated costs. Keep itemized receipts for reimbursement, even when you apply before the trip.
What help you may get
Travel And Transportation
Medical travel reimbursement
You can request reimbursement for airfare, gas, a rental car and hospital parking connected with your child’s medical trip.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Airfare
- Gas
- Rental car
- Hospital parking
Lodging Near Treatment
Medical-trip lodging reimbursement
You can include the cost of lodging needed for your child’s medical trip in the reimbursement request.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Lodging connected with medical travel
Meals And Food
Medical-trip food reimbursement
You can include food costs connected with your child’s medical trip in the reimbursement request.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Food connected with medical travel
Why this may help
Lodging Near Treatment: You can include lodging in your treatment-travel reimbursement request.
Meals And Food: You can include food costs connected with the medical trip.
Check the main eligibility rules
Diagnosis
B-ALL is in scope. Diagnosis fit is inferred from the inclusive cancer or serious-illness wording. Other requirements and availability still apply.
Age
Age 0 to age 18.
Treatment status
No specific treatment status is published.
- Travel must be for urgent medical treatment of the child’s serious illness or injury.
- Apply before travel when possible so funds can be considered for reservation in advance.
Where you live and where your child is treated
Where your family lives
You must live in: IA, MO, AR, NE, IL, MI.
- Primary residence must be in one of the six listed states. This policy took effect May 15, 2026.
Where your child is treated
Treatment-location rules are not published clearly; confirm with the program.
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: Parent Or Guardian
- Create the account on the family application and enter your child’s treatment and estimated travel costs.
- Keep itemized receipts and send them for reimbursement. They are not required with the first application.
Ways to apply or ask
- Web Form · Open form or page
- Email · applications@miracletravelworks.org
Documents to prepare
- Itemized receipts: Required before reimbursement, but not required with the initial application.
- Liability waiver in the application: The form marks acceptance of its liability waiver as required.
- Brief testimonial after receiving help: The application says a brief testimonial is required after receiving the donation. A child’s picture is requested separately.
Availability and timing
| Program | Active |
|---|---|
| Applications | Open |
| Funding or space | Not Published |
| Application window | Not Published |
| Last checked | Sep 25, 2026 |
- The page says reimbursement is offered for up to three months after the initial travel date. It does not clearly define this as a submission deadline, a covered-expense period, or both. Confirm this before relying on a cutoff.
Limitations and things to confirm
- You need itemized receipts before MTW can reimburse travel expenses.
- You must send a brief testimonial after receiving help.
- Confirm the reimbursement cap, payment timing and how the three-month period is applied.
- The age band is explicit, but the page does not specify whether age is measured at application, first travel or treatment.
- Confirm whether the photo-release checkbox is optional. It is not marked with the required-field symbol used for the liability waiver.
Official sources
Program details were last verified Sep 25, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.
- miracletravelworks.org/for-families/family-application · checked Sep 25, 2026