Tommy Fund for Childhood Cancer
Fund for Families · About this organization
What you get
Help with car payments, mortgage, other approved family needs, rent and utilities.
How to start
Your social worker sends the referral. Have copies of your bills ready.
Good to know
- Treatment must occur in the named Tommy Fund/Yale New Haven–affiliated network.
- Bills are paid directly.
The details, as published
The Tommy Fund’s Fund for Families directly pays approved rent, mortgage, utility, car-payment, and other needs for pediatric hematology and oncology patients receiving care in its Yale New Haven–affiliated network. The official page names the New Haven and Trumbull centers and other locations in Connecticut, New York, and Rhode Island. A parent or guardian completes the application with bills and returns it through the child’s social worker; the organization says applications are reviewed weekly.
What help you may get
Household Bills And Cash Assistance
Fund for Families — household bills and cash assistance
The Tommy Fund’s Fund for Families directly pays approved rent, mortgage, utility, car-payment, and other needs for pediatric hematology and oncology patients receiving care in its Yale New Haven–affiliated network. The official page names the New Haven and Trumbull centers and other locations in Connecticut, New York, and Rhode Island. A parent or guardian completes the application with bills and returns it through the child’s social worker; the organization says applications are reviewed weekly.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Car payments
- Mortgage
- Other approved family needs
- Rent
- Utilities
- The official pages do not publish a standard award amount or cap.
- The application asks how many times the family previously received support but publishes no limit.
Meals And Food
Fund for Families — meals and food
The Tommy Fund’s Fund for Families directly pays approved rent, mortgage, utility, car-payment, and other needs for pediatric hematology and oncology patients receiving care in its Yale New Haven–affiliated network. The official page names the New Haven and Trumbull centers and other locations in Connecticut, New York, and Rhode Island. A parent or guardian completes the application with bills and returns it through the child’s social worker; the organization says applications are reviewed weekly.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Car payments
- Mortgage
- Other approved family needs
- Rent
- Utilities
- The official pages do not publish a standard award amount or cap.
- The application asks how many times the family previously received support but publishes no limit.
Travel And Transportation
Fund for Families — travel and transportation
The Tommy Fund’s Fund for Families directly pays approved rent, mortgage, utility, car-payment, and other needs for pediatric hematology and oncology patients receiving care in its Yale New Haven–affiliated network. The official page names the New Haven and Trumbull centers and other locations in Connecticut, New York, and Rhode Island. A parent or guardian completes the application with bills and returns it through the child’s social worker; the organization says applications are reviewed weekly.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Car payments
- Mortgage
- Other approved family needs
- Rent
- Utilities
- The official pages do not publish a standard award amount or cap.
- The application asks how many times the family previously received support but publishes no limit.
Why this may help
Meals And Food: The fund pays approved household needs; ask whether a food expense can be included.
Travel And Transportation: Car payments are among the bills paid directly through the fund.
Check the main eligibility rules
Diagnosis
B-ALL is in scope. The official organization and application explicitly serve children undergoing cancer treatment through the Tommy Fund Pediatric Hematology & Oncology Center, so a pediatric B-ALL patient in that network is within scope.
Age
The program does not publish an age limit.
- The program uses “child,” “children,” and “pediatric” but publishes no numeric age limit.
Treatment status
Active Treatment
- A provider must verify the patient or diagnosis.
- The application collects the child’s oncologist, social worker, and treatment location.
- The completed form and bills are returned to the social worker.
Financial need is required.
- The application collects estimated monthly family expenses, income, checking, savings, and other assets, but publishes no threshold.
- The application asks about prior Tommy Fund support, assistance from other organizations, and community fundraising.
Where you live and where your child is treated
Where your family lives
Residence coverage is not published clearly; confirm with the program.
Where your child is treated
Treatment must be through: The patient must be undergoing treatment at the Tommy Fund Pediatric Hematology & Oncology Center at Yale New Haven or Trumbull, or an affiliate location described by the program in Connecticut, New York, or Rhode Island..
- The patient must be undergoing treatment at the Tommy Fund Pediatric Hematology & Oncology Center at Yale New Haven or Trumbull, or an affiliate location described by the program in Connecticut, New York, or Rhode Island.
Where the service, camp, stay, or experience happens
- Connecticut — Connecticut — Connecticut
- New York — New York — New York
- Rhode Island — Rhode Island — Rhode Island
- New Haven, Connecticut — New Haven, Connecticut
- Trumbull, Connecticut — Trumbull, Connecticut
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: Parent Or Guardian, Patient, Social Worker
- Attach copies of the bills requested for direct payment.
- Complete every field on the application.
- Contact the child’s Tommy Fund Pediatric Hematology & Oncology Center social worker.
- Return the application and bills to the social worker.
Ways to apply or ask
- Downloadable Form · Open form or page
- Hospital Workflow — The family returns the completed, signed application and copies of bills to the treating-center social worker. The public sources do not identify who forwards the packet onward.
Documents to prepare
- Completed application
- Copy of each bill requested for direct payment
- Approved rent, mortgage, utility, car-payment, or other bills are paid directly.
Availability and timing
| Program | Active |
|---|---|
| Applications | Open |
| Funding or space | Not Published |
| Application window | Rolling |
| Last checked | Aug 23, 2026 |
- The current official page offered an application and stated that applications are reviewed weekly.
- Applications are reviewed weekly.
- The organization says it reviews applications weekly.
Limitations and things to confirm
- Bills are paid directly.
- The application collects income and assets but the decision formula and award cap are not published.
- Treatment must occur in the named Tommy Fund/Yale New Haven–affiliated network.
- Is assistance subject to available funds?
- May HEROS or other survivorship-clinic patients receive Fund for Families assistance when they are no longer undergoing treatment?
- What income, asset, or hardship rule is used to approve requests?
- What is the maximum award and repeat-award limit?
- What numeric age limit defines a pediatric patient for this fund?
- Which “other needs” can be paid?
- Which affiliate locations in New York and Rhode Island are included?
Official sources
Program details were last verified Aug 23, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.
- Application for Assistance · checked Aug 23, 2026
- Requesting Financial Support · checked Aug 23, 2026