Tom Coughlin Jay Fund Foundation
Financial Support · About this organization
What you get
Emergency help with rent, mortgage, utilities, groceries, phone or cable bills, and treatment travel. The amount isn't published. Ask.
How to start
Your social worker starts the request. Get in touch with your child's hospital social worker.
Good to know
- Your child must be in active treatment or within six months after treatment.
- Requests are accepted while your child is in active treatment or within six months after treatment.
The details, as published
The Tom Coughlin Jay Fund provides temporary emergency assistance for essential household expenses to families dealing with childhood cancer in defined East Coast service areas. A child or young adult age 0–22 with B-ALL qualifies when the patient is in active treatment or within six months after treatment and lives in an eligible North Florida, South Georgia, Northern New Jersey, or New York City county or borough. A hospital social worker requests and submits the application, and approved support may address rent or mortgage, utilities, food and groceries, phone or cable bills, and transportation to treatment.
What help you may get
Household Bills And Cash Assistance
Financial Support — household bills and cash assistance
The Tom Coughlin Jay Fund provides temporary emergency assistance for essential household expenses to families dealing with childhood cancer in defined East Coast service areas. A child or young adult age 0–22 with B-ALL qualifies when the patient is in active treatment or within six months after treatment and lives in an eligible North Florida, South Georgia, Northern New Jersey, or New York City county or borough. A hospital social worker requests and submits the application, and approved support may address rent or mortgage, utilities, food and groceries, phone or cable bills, and transportation to treatment.
Amount decided by the program · As Needed
Can cover
- Cable
- Electricity
- Food and groceries
- Mortgage
- Phone
- Rent
- Transportation to and from treatment
- Water
- No standard award amount is published on the current official page.
- The official page describes temporary emergency assistance; repeat limits are not published.
Meals And Food
Financial Support — meals and food
The Tom Coughlin Jay Fund provides temporary emergency assistance for essential household expenses to families dealing with childhood cancer in defined East Coast service areas. A child or young adult age 0–22 with B-ALL qualifies when the patient is in active treatment or within six months after treatment and lives in an eligible North Florida, South Georgia, Northern New Jersey, or New York City county or borough. A hospital social worker requests and submits the application, and approved support may address rent or mortgage, utilities, food and groceries, phone or cable bills, and transportation to treatment.
Amount decided by the program · As Needed
Can cover
- Cable
- Electricity
- Food and groceries
- Mortgage
- Phone
- Rent
- Transportation to and from treatment
- Water
- No standard award amount is published on the current official page.
- The official page describes temporary emergency assistance; repeat limits are not published.
Travel And Transportation
Financial Support — travel and transportation
The Tom Coughlin Jay Fund provides temporary emergency assistance for essential household expenses to families dealing with childhood cancer in defined East Coast service areas. A child or young adult age 0–22 with B-ALL qualifies when the patient is in active treatment or within six months after treatment and lives in an eligible North Florida, South Georgia, Northern New Jersey, or New York City county or borough. A hospital social worker requests and submits the application, and approved support may address rent or mortgage, utilities, food and groceries, phone or cable bills, and transportation to treatment.
Amount decided by the program · As Needed
Can cover
- Cable
- Electricity
- Food and groceries
- Mortgage
- Phone
- Rent
- Transportation to and from treatment
- Water
- No standard award amount is published on the current official page.
- The official page describes temporary emergency assistance; repeat limits are not published.
- The published monetary limit is shared across the listed benefit components.
Why this may help
Meals And Food: Food and grocery costs are part of the temporary emergency assistance.
Travel And Transportation: Travel to and from treatment can be included alongside essential household bills.
Check the main eligibility rules
Diagnosis
B-ALL is in scope. The official program serves children with cancer or children with serious medical conditions that include cancer; pediatric B-ALL is within that scope.
Age
Age 0 to age 22, measured at application.
- The official page serves children and young adults ages 0–22.
Treatment status
Active Treatment
- A provider must verify the patient or diagnosis.
- A hospital social worker must request and submit the application.
Financial need is required.
- The official page states that support is available regardless of socioeconomic status when cancer-care costs make bills difficult to pay.
- The family must be struggling to keep up with essential bills because of the costs of cancer care.
Where you live and where your child is treated
Where your family lives
You must live in: Published program service area in US-FL; Published program service area in US-GA; Published program service area in US-NJ; Published program service area in US-NY.
- The existing four-state mapping is correct, but eligibility is limited to a published list of North Florida, South Georgia, Northern New Jersey, and New York City counties or boroughs. State-only matches still need local confirmation.
- The family must reside in one of the published service-area counties or New York City boroughs.
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? Yes. Ask your child’s social worker or care team to begin the request.
Who can start: Social Worker
- Confirm the patient’s age, treatment status, and residence within a listed service area.
- Contact the child’s hospital social worker.
- The foundation works with the hospital team to process approved household-expense support.
- The social worker requests the current application, verifies the family’s circumstances, and submits it to the Jay Fund.
Ways to apply or ask
- Email · support@tcjayfund.org — Email the foundation with process questions.
- Hospital Workflow · Open form or page — Contact the hospital social worker, who requests and submits the application.
- Online Portal · Open form or page
- Phone · 904-543-2599 — Call the foundation with process questions.
- Email · support@tcjayfund.org — Official program-information and registration contact.
Documents to prepare
- Bills or vendor information requested by the foundation
- Diagnosis and treatment-status verification
- Hospital social-worker application
- Residence verification
- The program pays or assists with approved essential household expenses in coordination with the hospital social worker.
Availability and timing
| Program | Active |
|---|---|
| Applications | Open |
| Funding or space | Fund Dependent |
| Application window | Rolling |
| Last checked | Aug 23, 2026 |
- The official site presented the program as active on the verification date.
- Requests are accepted while the patient is in active treatment or within six months after treatment.
Limitations and things to confirm
- A hospital social worker must submit the application.
- Only the listed North Florida, South Georgia, Northern New Jersey, and New York City localities are eligible.
- The current page does not publish award limits or repeat-assistance rules.
- The patient must be in active treatment or within six months after treatment.
- What current award ceilings, documentation requirements, repeat-assistance rules, and payment methods apply?
Official sources
Program details were last verified Aug 23, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.
- Financial Support — Tom Coughlin Jay Fund · checked Aug 23, 2026
- Financial Support During Childhood Cancer — Tom Coughlin Jay Fund · checked Aug 23, 2026