271 organizations
We are still writing the honest guide for this category. In the meantime, the organizations below are ready to help.
Kim's Hope is a nonprofit that helps people in the United States who have glioblastoma, a brain cancer, and their families. It gives financial aid for care at home, travel for treatment, medicine and treatment costs, regular bills, and one education grant for a child or grandchild of a glioblastoma patient. One current page says new financial aid applications are temporarily closed, so families should check the website or call before applying.
8 services
Julia’s Wings Foundation helps families of children with rare blood and bone marrow diseases, including aplastic anemia, MDS, and PNH. It gives short-term financial help for costs like travel, lodging, medicine, co-pays, rent, utilities, and other living expenses during treatment.
3 services
Triumph Foundation is a nonprofit that helps children, adults, and veterans with spinal cord injury or paralysis. It offers grants, loaner wheelchairs, free equipment exchange, peer support, care packs, employment help, and adaptive sports, mostly for people in Southern California, with some grant support across the United States.
13 services
Patches of Light is a Hilliard, Ohio nonprofit that helps families with critically or terminally ill children. They help with urgent needs like rent or mortgage, utilities, gas, groceries, parking, travel, and other emergency costs so families can stay close during treatment.
4 services
Caring For Others, Inc. is an Atlanta nonprofit that helps people and families facing poverty or a short-term crisis. They provide food, clothing, furniture, school and student support, disaster relief, and some emergency financial help for bills when funds are available.
11 services
Trans Lifeline is a trans-led nonprofit that supports trans and questioning people by phone. Its hotline connects callers with trans and nonbinary peer operators for crisis and non-crisis support, and it also shares resources and ID-change information.
7 services
Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research is an Atlanta-based nonprofit that raises money for childhood cancer research and family support. Its Family Emergency Fund gives limited emergency grants for families of children and young adults in cancer treatment, and its research grants fund pediatric cancer researchers.
6 services
The DONNA CareLine is a free support line for people with breast cancer. It is run by Patient Advocate Foundation in partnership with The DONNA Foundation and helps patients deal with health insurance, medical bills, financial stress, disability benefits, and getting care.
4 services
The National Living Donor Assistance Center helps people who are going through the process to donate an organ while living. It can help pay for some non-medical costs like travel, lost wages, and dependent care during evaluation, surgery, and follow-up.
2 services
The Pinetop Perkins Foundation is a nonprofit based in Clarksdale, Mississippi. It teaches blues music through workshops and gives emergency help to older professional blues musicians through the Pinetop Assistance League.
5 services
Cancer Cartel gives one-time financial grants to people with cancer. The money can help with everyday costs like housing, utilities, groceries, and transportation while the person is in treatment or recently finished treatment.
3 services
The Farm Service Agency is part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It helps farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners with farm loans, disaster recovery, conservation, safety net, price support, and other farm programs through local USDA Service Centers and online tools.
10 services
Rescuing Hope is a Marietta-based nonprofit that fights sex trafficking through survivor support, public awareness, and training. They help sex trafficking survivors make action plans, connect to housing and jobs, build life skills, get clothing and goods, and apply for education or small-business support.
11 services
American Living Organ Donor Fund helps people who are donating an organ while alive. They help donors find financial help and may give grants for donation-related costs like lost wages, travel, lodging, child care, and caregiver needs.
8 services
finEQUITY is a New York-based nonprofit that helps people and families affected by incarceration build financial stability. They offer free online services for financial coaching, credit monitoring, bank account matching, credit building, and credit-and-debt education.
11 services
Arms Wide Open Childhood Cancer Foundation is a national nonprofit that helps children with cancer and their families. It funds safer childhood cancer research, gives monthly financial grants to East Coast families in hardship, and runs bereavement, mental wellness, advocacy, and awareness programs.
7 services
The Air & Space Forces Association, still called AFA, is a national nonprofit that supports Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Its Wounded Airmen & Guardians Program gives approved grants for needs like rent, utilities, gas, travel, adaptive equipment, and caregiver support, but requests must go through Air Force Wounded Warrior staff.
5 services
The Anthony Rizzo Family Foundation is a nonprofit started by Anthony Rizzo to help children and families who are fighting cancer. It gives direct financial and emotional support, and its grant applications are currently limited to families in Florida, New York, Illinois, and New Jersey.
4 services
That Others May Live Foundation supports U.S. Air Force rescue personnel and their families. They help with scholarships, emergency tragedy funds, hardship support, and programs for rescue warriors and families.
6 services
The Actors Fund now operates as the Entertainment Community Fund, continuing The Actors Fund services. It helps people who work in performing arts and entertainment with emergency money help, career counseling, health insurance guidance, housing information, mental health support, and programs for older adults.
12 services
