Sweet Julia Grace Foundation
Rainy Day Program · About this organization
What you get
Help with housing, utilities, gas, food or formula, delivered meals, medical travel and lodging, and other crisis costs. The amount isn't published. Ask.
How to start
Use Refer a Raindancer or contact the foundation. Describe your child's medical situation and the bills or other help you need.
Good to know
- There isn't a published list of paperwork to gather; ask staff what they need.
The details, as published
Sweet Julia Grace Foundation’s Rainy Day Program supports newborns through age 18 in a serious medical crisis or with a serious, medically fragile, or complex condition who live in the published Northern Virginia or Kanawha and Putnam County, West Virginia service areas. Concrete assistance includes house payments, utilities and other crucial nonmedical bills, gas, restaurant and grocery cards, specialized-care travel and lodging, crisis expenses, medically required formula or food, and delivered meals. A parent, guardian, social worker, or care team contacts the foundation or founder Sara Knight, after which staff determine Raindancer enrollment and available help without a published long application process.
What help you may get
Household Bills And Cash Assistance
Rainy Day Program — household bills and cash assistance
Sweet Julia Grace Foundation’s Rainy Day Program supports newborns through age 18 in a serious medical crisis or with a serious, medically fragile, or complex condition who live in the published Northern Virginia or Kanawha and Putnam County, West Virginia service areas. Concrete assistance includes house payments, utilities and other crucial nonmedical bills, gas, restaurant and grocery cards, specialized-care travel and lodging, crisis expenses, medically required formula or food, and delivered meals. A parent, guardian, social worker, or care team contacts the foundation or founder Sara Knight, after which staff determine Raindancer enrollment and available help without a published long application process.
Amount not published · As Needed
Can cover
- Delivered meals
- Gas gift cards
- Grocery gift cards
- House payments
- Housing, lodging, and travel for specialized care
- Medical food or formula
- Restaurant gift cards
- Unexpected crisis expenses
- Utilities and other crucial nonmedical bills
- The reviewed official pages do not publish a dollar award limit.
- The foundation describes ongoing support but publishes no award-frequency ceiling.
Lodging Near Treatment
Rainy Day Program — lodging near treatment
Sweet Julia Grace Foundation’s Rainy Day Program supports newborns through age 18 in a serious medical crisis or with a serious, medically fragile, or complex condition who live in the published Northern Virginia or Kanawha and Putnam County, West Virginia service areas. Concrete assistance includes house payments, utilities and other crucial nonmedical bills, gas, restaurant and grocery cards, specialized-care travel and lodging, crisis expenses, medically required formula or food, and delivered meals. A parent, guardian, social worker, or care team contacts the foundation or founder Sara Knight, after which staff determine Raindancer enrollment and available help without a published long application process.
Amount not published · As Needed
Can cover
- Delivered meals
- Gas gift cards
- Grocery gift cards
- House payments
- Housing, lodging, and travel for specialized care
- Medical food or formula
- Restaurant gift cards
- Unexpected crisis expenses
- Utilities and other crucial nonmedical bills
- The reviewed official pages do not publish a dollar award limit.
- The foundation describes ongoing support but publishes no award-frequency ceiling.
Meals And Food
Rainy Day Program — meals and food
Sweet Julia Grace Foundation’s Rainy Day Program supports newborns through age 18 in a serious medical crisis or with a serious, medically fragile, or complex condition who live in the published Northern Virginia or Kanawha and Putnam County, West Virginia service areas. Concrete assistance includes house payments, utilities and other crucial nonmedical bills, gas, restaurant and grocery cards, specialized-care travel and lodging, crisis expenses, medically required formula or food, and delivered meals. A parent, guardian, social worker, or care team contacts the foundation or founder Sara Knight, after which staff determine Raindancer enrollment and available help without a published long application process.
Amount not published · As Needed
Can cover
- Delivered meals
- Gas gift cards
- Grocery gift cards
- House payments
- Housing, lodging, and travel for specialized care
- Medical food or formula
- Restaurant gift cards
- Unexpected crisis expenses
- Utilities and other crucial nonmedical bills
- The reviewed official pages do not publish a dollar award limit.
- The foundation describes ongoing support but publishes no award-frequency ceiling.
Practical Items And Home Help
Rainy Day Program — practical items and home help
Sweet Julia Grace Foundation’s Rainy Day Program supports newborns through age 18 in a serious medical crisis or with a serious, medically fragile, or complex condition who live in the published Northern Virginia or Kanawha and Putnam County, West Virginia service areas. Concrete assistance includes house payments, utilities and other crucial nonmedical bills, gas, restaurant and grocery cards, specialized-care travel and lodging, crisis expenses, medically required formula or food, and delivered meals. A parent, guardian, social worker, or care team contacts the foundation or founder Sara Knight, after which staff determine Raindancer enrollment and available help without a published long application process.
Amount not published · As Needed
Can cover
- Delivered meals
- Gas gift cards
- Grocery gift cards
- House payments
- Housing, lodging, and travel for specialized care
- Medical food or formula
- Restaurant gift cards
- Unexpected crisis expenses
- Utilities and other crucial nonmedical bills
- The reviewed official pages do not publish a dollar award limit.
- The foundation describes ongoing support but publishes no award-frequency ceiling.
Travel And Transportation
Rainy Day Program — travel and transportation
Sweet Julia Grace Foundation’s Rainy Day Program supports newborns through age 18 in a serious medical crisis or with a serious, medically fragile, or complex condition who live in the published Northern Virginia or Kanawha and Putnam County, West Virginia service areas. Concrete assistance includes house payments, utilities and other crucial nonmedical bills, gas, restaurant and grocery cards, specialized-care travel and lodging, crisis expenses, medically required formula or food, and delivered meals. A parent, guardian, social worker, or care team contacts the foundation or founder Sara Knight, after which staff determine Raindancer enrollment and available help without a published long application process.
Amount not published · As Needed
Can cover
- Delivered meals
- Gas gift cards
- Grocery gift cards
- House payments
- Housing, lodging, and travel for specialized care
- Medical food or formula
- Restaurant gift cards
- Unexpected crisis expenses
- Utilities and other crucial nonmedical bills
- The reviewed official pages do not publish a dollar award limit.
- The foundation describes ongoing support but publishes no award-frequency ceiling.
Why this may help
Practical Items And Home Help: Crisis expenses and daily essentials are included, but specific goods or home services need checking.
Check the main eligibility rules
Diagnosis
B-ALL is in scope. A child age 0–18 with B-ALL can fall within the program’s serious-illness or medical-crisis scope in the named Virginia and West Virginia areas.
Age
Age 0 to age 18, measured at application.
- The official page states newborn through age 18.
Treatment status
No specific treatment status is published.
Financial need is required.
- The program addresses families struggling with crisis-related expenses but publishes no numerical income rule.
Where you live and where your child is treated
Where your family lives
You must live in: Surrounding areas of Kanawha County, West Virginia; Surrounding areas of Putnam County, West Virginia; Within one hour’s drive of Bristow, Virginia.
- The child must live in one of the foundation’s published Virginia or West Virginia service areas.
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, Healthcare Team, Parent Or Guardian, Social Worker
- Program staff confirm whether the child is within the Raindancer age, medical, and service-area rules.
- Provide any medical or expense information requested by staff.
- Staff discuss available Rainy Day assistance and delivery arrangements.
- Submit the official Refer a Raindancer form or contact the foundation and describe the child’s medical crisis or serious condition, age, residence, and current family need.
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.
- Gift cards and meals may be sent or arranged; payment mechanics for bills, lodging, and travel are not published.
Availability and timing
| Program | Active |
|---|---|
| Applications | Call To Confirm |
| Funding or space | Not Published |
| Application window | Call First |
| Last checked | Aug 24, 2026 |
- Current official program and 2026 West Virginia pages describe active services and provide direct contact information.
- The site provides a referral form and directs families and referring professionals to contact the foundation; no formal public deadline is stated.
- No processing lead time is published.
Limitations and things to confirm
- No award cap, formal application, documentation list, or current capacity is published.
- Residence must be within the published Virginia or West Virginia service area.
- The child must be newborn through age 18 and meet the serious-illness, medical-crisis, or medical-fragility rule.
- Does the family’s address fall within the current West Virginia or Virginia service boundary?
- How are approved bills, lodging, and travel paid or arranged?
- What dollar and frequency limits apply to each type of help?
- What medical and financial documents are required?
- Which benefits and funding are available now?
Official sources
Program details were last verified Aug 24, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.
- Raindancer Program — Sweet Julia Grace Foundation · checked Aug 23, 2026
- Rainy Day Program — Sweet Julia Grace Foundation · checked Aug 24, 2026
- Rainy Day Program — Sweet Julia Grace Foundation · checked Aug 23, 2026
- Refer a Raindancer — Sweet Julia Grace Foundation · checked Aug 24, 2026
- Refer a Raindancer — Sweet Julia Grace Foundation · checked Aug 23, 2026
- Sweet Julia Grace Foundation in West Virginia · checked Aug 24, 2026
- Sweet Julia Grace Foundation in West Virginia · checked Aug 23, 2026
- Raindancer Life-Changing Gifts and Adaptive Support · checked Aug 24, 2026