Spare Key
Help Me Bounce · About this organization
What you get
Help with mortgage, rent, car payments, utilities, and other approved bills with a valid servicer account.
How to start
Register in Help Me Bounce, add your funding goals, public story and photo, and sign the waiver; your social worker verifies the medical crisis.
Good to know
- Medical care must have significantly reduced your income and increased your expenses.
- Your campaign story and photo will be public.
The details, as published
A U.S. family facing a verified medical crisis can create a public crowdfunding campaign for household bills after showing reduced income and increased expenses; a medical professional confirms the crisis, and payments go directly to bill servicers.
What help you may get
Household Bills And Cash Assistance
Crowdfunded household bill payments
An approved family receives a public Help Me Bounce campaign with funding goals for major bills such as mortgage, rent, car payments, and utilities; donor funds are paid directly to the attached bill servicer, not to the family.
Amount decided by the program · As Needed
Can cover
- Mortgage
- Rent
- Car payments
- Utilities
- Other approved bills with a valid servicer account
Does not cover
- Cash paid directly to the applicant
- The family proposes funding goals, but no minimum, maximum, or guaranteed funding amount is published.
- The campaign is active for six months and may be renewed for another six months; families may remain eligible while facing a medical crisis.
Check the main eligibility rules
Diagnosis
B-ALL is in scope. The official program materials explicitly include cancer within the broader critical-illness population, so a family facing pediatric B-ALL can qualify if all medical-crisis and financial-impact rules are met.
Age
The program does not publish an age limit.
- The program serves a family member of any published age; no minimum or maximum age is stated.
Treatment status
Active Treatment, Maintenance Treatment, Relapse Or Recurrence, Palliative Or Hospice
- The family must currently be facing a medical crisis whose care has significantly reduced income and increased expenses; precise treatment-status labels are not published.
- A social worker or medical professional must certify that the family is experiencing a critical illness or serious injury.
- Each funding goal must identify a bill servicer and a valid account reference through the secure application so payment can be made directly.
Financial need is required.
- Spare Key publishes no income ceiling, but requires a demonstrated significant reduction in income and increase in expenses caused by the medical care.
- Medical care must have caused a demonstrated significant reduction of income.
- Medical care must have caused a demonstrated significant increase in expenses.
Where you live and where your child is treated
Where your family lives
You must live in: United States.
- The applicant must reside in the United States.
Where your child is treated
No treatment-location restriction is published.
- No named hospital, provider network, or treatment-state restriction is published; the verifying professional may be the family's social worker or medical professional.
Where the service, camp, stay, or experience happens
- Help Me Bounce — Approved campaigns are published and shared online; this delivery channel does not itself set residence eligibility.
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, Patient, Caregiver
- Review the current Help Me Bounce guidelines, public-profile terms, and financial-impact requirements.
- Create a Help Me Bounce account and complete the family application, funding goals, public story, and photo.
- Respond to the program's verification email and confirm or deny that the family is facing a medical crisis.
- Sign the online waiver and submit the complete application.
- Review the submitted and professionally verified application and notify the family by phone or writing.
- If approved, share the public campaign page with the family's network and keep its story current.
Ways to apply or ask
- Online Portal · Open form or page — The public registration page is live; the full application appears after account creation.
- Phone · (952) 406-8872 — Use for questions before registration; the published application route remains the online portal.
- Email · support@helpmebounce.org — Use for questions before registration; do not email confidential application data.
Documents to prepare
- Brief email confirmation from a hospital social worker or medical professional that the family is facing a medical crisis
- Current bill or servicer information for each funding goal, including a secure valid account reference
- Help Me Bounce online waiver accepting publication, program, and accuracy terms
- Approved campaigns are published for up to six months and may be renewed for an additional six months.
- Funds raised are paid directly to the servicer associated with each approved funding goal; no funds are paid directly to the applicant.
Availability and timing
| Program | Active |
|---|---|
| Applications | Open |
| Funding or space | Fund Dependent |
| Application window | Rolling |
| Last checked | Aug 27, 2026 |
- The public registration page is live. Completion does not guarantee approval or payment, and assistance depends on funds raised and otherwise available through the program.
- The registration page was live on the research date; approval and funding are not guaranteed and support depends on available funds.
- The guidelines say families are notified within 72 hours after successful submission; the review starts after final submission and professional verification.
Limitations and things to confirm
- Approval, bill payment, and any amount raised are not guaranteed.
- The campaign is public and displays family/state, photos, story, funding goal amounts, and bill details the family authorizes for publication.
- The full post-registration question set is account-gated; additional current portal fields or documents may be required.
- Payments go directly to a valid bill servicer and never directly to the applicant.
- What additional questions, uploads, and validation rules appear after account registration in the current Help Me Bounce portal?
- What current limits, if any, apply per funding goal, campaign, family, bill category, or renewal?
Official sources
Program details were last verified Aug 27, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.
- Apply For Aid | Help Me Bounce · checked Aug 27, 2026
- Help Me Bounce Assistance Guidelines · checked Aug 27, 2026
- How it Works | Help Me Bounce · checked Aug 27, 2026
- What is Spare Key? · checked Aug 27, 2026
- Medical Professional Resources - Spare Key · checked Aug 27, 2026
- Program - Spare Key · checked Aug 27, 2026