Written by a parent, not a doctor. Nothing here is medical advice.
Support organization
MBA Opens Doors Foundation helps families with critically or chronically ill or seriously injured children remain in their primary homes during treatment. The Home Grant Program pays one current rent or first-mortgage payment up to $2,000 for eligible families referred by a social worker at one of 14 network children's hospitals; a family may receive only one grant. Applications follow a monthly cycle and can close at a hospital before the first when its monthly funding maximum is reached. A separate Southern California wildfire Disaster Relief Program has different CHLA, care-duration, hardship, multi-month, and deadline rules, but its remaining funds and current intake status are not published. The foundation also publishes English/Spanish grant guidance and two curated third-party family-resource directories.
Helps families with critically ill or injured children remain in their homes while the child is receiving treatment.
Network-hospital social-worker grants for one current rent or first-mortgage payment, plus a status-uncertain CHLA wildfire-relief branch.
Two months of housing help after a wildfire, with a possible third month. The amount isn't published. Ask.
Helps with: Household Bills And Cash Assistance
Where: Local rules apply
Care team must start: No
Up to $2,000 for one month of current rent or first-mortgage payments.
Helps with: Household Bills And Cash Assistance
Where: Local rules apply
Care team must start: Yes
Resource Directory
An undated downloadable workbook contains 46 national and Greater Washington referrals spanning cancer aid, food, housing, shelter, youth programs, disability, hospice, camps, dreams, and community services. The directory includes stale-looking HTTP links and uneven geography labels, so every third-party service must be independently verified before a family relies on its eligibility or contact data.
Topics: camps, cancer aid, community services, disability, dreams, food, hospice, housing, shelter
Resource Directory
The public resource page refers families to Homeowner-Help.org, Family Reach, the Colorado Homeownership Coalition, and the Dan Jansen Foundation/Jane Jansen Beres Family Aid Fund for homeowner hardship, cancer financial barriers, Colorado mortgage trouble, or leukemia-related family aid. These outside services are not MBA Opens Doors offerings and must be verified with their owners.
Topics: cancer financial support, Colorado mortgage assistance, homeowner hardship, leukemia family aid
Organization details were last verified Aug 24, 2026. Program availability can change.
