27 organizations
We are still writing the honest guide for this category. In the meantime, the organizations below are ready to help.
Little Star Foundation is a nonprofit founded by Andrea Jaeger that helps children with cancer, children with life-threatening or life-changing conditions, and families in crisis. It offers financial help, educational scholarships, medical and hospital outreach support, and free sports, arts, and equine therapy programs. I did not verify an Atlanta office; the official contact address is in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, and the foundation says it helps families across the U.S. and globally.
6 services
Expect Miracles Foundation is a cancer nonprofit based in Boston. Its SAMFund grants help young adult cancer survivors ages 21 to 39 after treatment with living costs, family building costs, and other recovery needs. It also raises money for cancer research and runs fundraising events, including a 2026 event in Atlanta.
10 services
The Brooke Healey Foundation helps families dealing with pediatric cancer, especially brain cancer and DIPG. It gives financial help for bills and needed items, supports DIPG research, and awards scholarships to civically active students.
6 services
First Responders Children’s Foundation is a national nonprofit that helps children and families of first responders. It offers emergency grants, bereavement help, scholarships, free counseling in some states, community grants, and holiday toy programs.
10 services
The National Collegiate Cancer Foundation helps young adults whose lives have been affected by cancer. It gives need-based scholarships to college, university, and vocational students who are cancer survivors or who lost a parent or guardian to cancer.
3 services
The National Children’s Cancer Society helps children with cancer, their families, and childhood cancer survivors. They offer travel and emergency financial help, case-manager support, survivor resources, college scholarships, and global medical supply support.
12 services
Military Officers Association of America is a national military membership group based in Alexandria, Virginia. Its charities help service members, veterans, military spouses, caregivers, survivors, and families with crisis grants, education aid, career help, spouse professional development, and community outreach.
10 services
Step Up For Mental Health is a Chicago-based nonprofit that helps people and families understand mental health and find support. It offers peer support, help finding local services, small grants, kids programs, digital skills classes, Google Career Certificate scholarships, and Mental Health First Aid training.
11 services
Seeds of Fortune is a nonprofit online and hybrid program for students, especially young people from under-resourced communities. It helps students prepare for college, find scholarships and grants, learn money skills, build careers, and join leadership and business programs.
6 services
Children's Brain Tumor Foundation helps children, teens, young adults, survivors, parents, caregivers, and siblings affected by brain and spinal cord tumors. They offer support groups, one-on-one social worker support, mentoring, care kits, education help, scholarships, grants, creative programs, and retreats, with many programs online for families across the United States.
14 services
The National GRACE Foundation helps pediatric cancer patients and survivors get ready for college. They give free help with college admissions, financial aid, essays, scholarships, and advocacy with schools.
5 services
Army Emergency Relief is the official nonprofit of the U.S. Army. It helps eligible Soldiers, retired Soldiers, surviving spouses, and Army families with emergency money help, zero-interest loans, grants, scholarships, and some transition support.
12 services
The Max Foundation is a Seattle-based global health nonprofit, not an Atlanta local agency. It helps people with cancer and other critical illnesses in low- and middle-income countries get medicine, diagnostic testing, transportation help, education support, and patient support at no cost through partner doctors and institutions.
9 services
Blood Cancer United is the new name of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. It helps people with blood cancer and their families with free information, financial aid programs, clinical trial help, support groups, and advocacy.
17 services
4Sarah is a faith-based nonprofit that helps women and girls who are in the sex industry or have been affected by sex trafficking. They offer outreach, a hotline and help form, care-team support, help finding resources, and scholarships for education or job skills.
5 services
Children of the Night is a Los Angeles nonprofit that helps children and youth who are being sexually exploited or are at risk. They run a 24/7 hotline, case management, and free online tutoring so young people can get safe, get documents, find services, and work toward a high school diploma.
5 services
High Meadows School is a nonprofit, independent day school in Roswell for children age 3 through 8th grade. It offers progressive education on a 42-acre campus, with outdoor learning, arts, technology, Spanish, athletics, after-school care, summer camp, and need-based financial aid.
13 services
This is the Georgia Student Finance Commission (GSFC), the state agency that helps Georgia students pay for college and technical school. It runs the HOPE and Zell Miller scholarships and grants, manages the GAfutures website, and offers state grants and student loans. (Note: this listing was mislabeled as 'Georgia State University' and as a mental health/crisis service — it is neither.)
7 services
Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 1030 is a local, volunteer-run veterans group based in Cumming (Forsyth County), Georgia. They help veterans and their families with VA benefits and disability claims, emergency relief, support for homeless and hospitalized vets, and they award scholarships and run community fundraisers. Veterans can also join the chapter for fellowship at regular meetings and events.
4 services
The Blinded Veterans Association (BVA) is a national veterans group with an active Atlanta chapter that helps veterans who are blind or losing their vision. They help veterans file VA benefit and disability claims for free, connect with other blinded veterans through peer support, and join adaptive sports, recreation, and community events. They also offer scholarships for blinded veterans and their family members.
8 services
