Thankfully, there are many other foundations that focus on different types of support, including financial assistance, emotional support, travel, and housing.
We have compiled lists of other foundations that can help with financial assistance and emotional-support services. Our lists are not exhaustive. There are additional resources available, many times focused more locally. Our nurse navigators are more than happy to help you try to find the additional resources you need.
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Financial Support
4 Ayden Strong Foundation provides financial assistance to families who may be experiencing hardship while seeking treatment, clinical trials, or more importantly making as many memories as possible until a cure is found.
Arms Wide Open helps families both financially and emotionally who are suffering hardship due to their child’s diagnosis of cancer, providing them with support during the most difficult time of their lives.
The B+ Foundation provides financial and emotional support to families of children with cancer nationwide.
This foundation provides financial assistance to families with children fighting Brain Cancer.
Dragon Master Foundation is proud to serve cancer patients and their families by creating connections and providing financial assistance, information, and resources.
Family Reach delivers financial education, financial coaching, resource navigation, and emergency relief funds to patients and caregivers facing a cancer diagnosis so no family must choose between their health and their home.
The Friends of Scott Foundation’s (FOS) mission is to help children with cancer and their families. We ensure they receive the emotional and financial support needed to cope with this devastating disease.
Gabriella’s Smile Foundation was created to provide financial support to families with children diagnosed with DIPG.
The Good Rx app compares pricing of prescribed drugs against the price assigned to drugs by your insurance provider.
Hogs for the Cause is a New Orleans based non-profit that provides financial assistance to families across the country with children undergoing treatment for brain cancer. Hogs currently operates as one of the premier sources of funding for pediatric brain cancer outreach services.
This Family Assistance Grant is a $500 financial assistance grant given to a family with a child diagnosed with DIPG brain cancer. This grant can be used for purposes that benefit the child including, but not limited to, travel expenses for treatment, medical expenses, lodging, airfare, food, gas, etc.
Max Cure provides financial support to low-income and military families who have a child battling cancer to help ease the burdens on the family while dealing with the diagnosis of their child. This foundation also provides families with access to counseling services, including psychiatric care and support-group activities.
Mission For Maureen assists qualifying brain cancer patients with everyday expenses. Assistance may come in the form of rent or mortgage payments, help with the electric or gas bill, or even gift cards to a local supermarket to help with the cost of food and medicines.
Family Financial Assistance Grants help ease the financial burdens associated with this disease and allow families to spend more quality time together.
Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation: Butterfly Fund
The Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation’s Butterfly Fund provides emergency financial assistance to families of children in treatment at partnering medical facilities. They assist with out-of-pocket expenses, such as housing, transportation, groceries, professional counseling, long-term rehabilitation, and other services that are often not covered by insurance.
Pinky Swear Foundation has provided more than $4.5 million in financial assistance and quality of life support. We’ve helped thousands of families whose children are bravely battling the ugliness of cancer. This foundation assists with paying for rent/mortgage, gas, groceries, auto expenses, and more!
Reflections of Grace provides financial, emotional, and educational support for the families of children affected by pediatric brain cancer.
Smiles for Sophie is dedicated to help relieve the financial burdens of families fighting DIPG.
Their mission is to fund awareness of Pediatric Brain Cancers while assisting families of children diagnosed with DIPG with the necessary financial support, and networking resources for treatment options during this traumatic period.
The mission of The Tyler Robinson Foundation is to strengthen families financially and emotionally as they cope with the tragedy of a pediatric cancer diagnosis by offsetting out-of-pocket life expenses.
Regional or State Specific
Angels of Hope provides emergency financial assistance and other programs to families in active treatment for any type of cancer, anywhere in Michigan.
Ethen Richardson Foundation (SC & GA)
This foundation provides financial and emotional support to the families of seriously and terminally ill children.
Isaiah Alonso Foundation (KY and GA)
This foundation provides financial assistance to families of kids with cancer in KY & GA.
New Day Foundation for Families provides financial assistance and emotional support to Michigan families facing cancer. New Day pays critical living expenses (direct to creditors) and offers professional counseling and grocery support to help patients maintain medical compliance and improve quality of life.
The M Family Foundation (Florida)
The M Family Foundation is a community-based non-profit organization in Florida that raises awareness and directly supports families battling ovarian and pediatric cancers. They understand every family has a different story to tell so at the M Family Foundation, they listen; and provide a tailored approach to support and help alleviate some of the financial pressures so parents and/or caretakers can just enjoy the important moments together. -
Travel Focus
Alex’s Lemonade Travel For Care
ALSF’s Travel For Care program ensures children battling childhood cancer have the financial assistance needed to travel (transportation and lodging) to clinical trials, experimental therapeutics, or treatment innovations not currently available at their local institution.
Angel Flight Central (AFC) serves people in need by arranging charitable flights for health care or other humanitarian purposes with the help of generous volunteer pilots.
Children’s Flight of Hope provides air transportation for young patients and their families to grant access to specialized medical care that might otherwise be out of reach.
The Marc Jr Foundation gifts families $500 to help reduce the financial stress that comes with a diagnosis. This money is to be used at your discretion, without stipulations or reimbursement forms. This money can be used for copays, travel expenses, alternative treatments, prescriptions, etc. It may also be used for a family night out – the zoo, a museum, movie, amusement park, etc.
Mercy Medical Angels provides free transportation to medical care. On the ground with gas cards, bus and train tickets and in the air with trips flown by volunteer pilots and the commercial airlines, Mercy Medical Angels ensures that no one in need is denied medical care because they don’t have transportation.
Ronald McDonald House programs, located near top children’s hospitals, allow parents who are far from home to stay close to their hospitalized child and benefit from the comforts of home without incurring hotel and food costs. Ronald McDonald Family Room programs offer a quiet respite for all families right in the hospital.
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Emotional Support
We provide cost-free, year-round, fun filled events we call adventures for the entire immediate family until the child turns 20 years of age. Our adventures consist of adventures in your home state and might include theme parks, zoos, sporting events, holiday party and more. We also have our Adventure in a Box which are activities the family can do at home.
Alex’s Lemonade Stand SuperSibs
ALSF’s SuperSibs program is dedicated to comforting, encouraging, and empowering siblings during their family’s battle against childhood cancer, so these children and teens can face the future with courage and hope.
Arms Wide Open helps families both financially and emotionally who are suffering hardship due to their child’s diagnosis of cancer, providing them with support during the most difficult time of their lives.
The B+ Foundation provides financial and emotional support to families of children with cancer nationwide.
Believe in Tomorrow Foundation (Respite housing)
Believe In Tomorrow developed the concept for the first pediatric respite program in the U.S. Respite housing provides these families with the opportunity to escape from the stressful routine of medical treatments at a relaxing mountain or beach location.
Children’s Brain Tumor Foundation (CBTF)
The Children’s Brain Tumor Foundation (CBTF) is the nation’s leader in quality of life programs for families impacted by brain and spinal cord tumors. They support families from the day of diagnosis and throughout the brain tumor journey.
Clayton Dabney for Kids with Cancer
Clayton Dabney for Kids with Cancer provides families in need with children in the last stages of terminal cancer, assistance in creating everlasting memories by providing last wishes, gifts, special events, family travel and financial assistance with household expenses.
Dragon Master Foundation is proud to serve cancer patients and their families by creating connections and providing financial assistance, information, and resources.
The Fly A Kite Foundation provides custom art packages for children with pediatric brain cancers. These packages are intended to provide a creative and therapeutic outlet for children suffering from diminished motor function.
The Friends of Scott Foundation’s (FOS) mission is to help children with cancer and their families. We ensure they receive the emotional and financial support needed to cope with this devastating disease.
Jesse Rees Foundation (NEGU Joy Jars)
ClubNEGU (Never Ever Give Up) is a free program for all Courageous Kids that are actively fighting cancer, their SuperSiblings, and Courageous Parents, too! Each registered ClubNEGU family receives a fun boost of joy each month. These gifts are delivered for the sole purpose of wanting them to feel encouraged, bring them smiles, create priceless memories and help them know they are not alone in this journey.
Love Not Lost is on a mission to revolutionize the way we grieve in America. By partnering with photographers nationwide, Love Not Lost offers free photo sessions to families facing a terminal illness.
The Love, Chloe mission provides hope for families facing a childhood cancer diagnosis with immediate financial and family support including the Monkey in My Chair program that keeps kids in cancer treatment connected to their classmates in school.
The Make-A-Wish Foundation helps fulfill the wishes of children with a critical illness between the ages of 2½ and 18 years old.
Max Cure provides financial support to low-income and military families who have a child battling cancer to help ease the burdens on the family while dealing with the diagnosis of their child. This foundation also provides families with access to counseling services, including psychiatric care and support-group activities.
Reflections of Grace provides financial, emotional, and educational support for the families of children affected by pediatric brain cancer.
The mission of The Tyler Robinson Foundation is to strengthen families financially and emotionally as they cope with the tragedy of a pediatric cancer diagnosis by offsetting out-of-pocket life expenses.
Regional Or State Specific
Angels of Hope provides emergency financial assistance and other programs to families in active treatment for any type of cancer, anywhere in Michigan.
Casey Cares Foundation (making memories)
Casey Cares helps keep families’ spirits high by arranging programming – whether it’s a simple movie night and a fresh pair of pajamas or attending a major sporting event. Casey Cares makes life a lot better by adding a personal touch throughout the year and making lasting memories for families throughout the Mid-Atlantic region, Florida and portions of the Midwest.
Ele’s Place is a healing center for grieving children, teens, young adults, and their families. Four Michigan locations support families throughout Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, Flint, Lansing, and beyond.
Ethen Richardson Foundation (SC & GA)
This foundation provides financial and emotional support to the families of seriously and terminally ill children.
The Jenna Kast Believe in Miracles Foundation (MI only)
The mission of Believe in Miracles is to enrich the lives of Michigan children suffering from life-threatening medical conditions by bringing joy and hope to their lives. The organization primarily offers 2nd wishes to kids in Michigan aged 3-21 that have relapsed and have already received their first wish from another organization. Believe in Miracles will meet the needs of suffering children by providing necessities or a fun-filled gift. -
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