GRANT RESTRICTIONS
- Patient household must be up to 300% of Federal Poverty Line.
- Mission Cancer Foundation will not provide any one individual with more than $500 of assistance per calendar year.
- Assistance is awarded on a first come first served basis after confirming eligibility and subject to the availability of funds in the foundation’s financial assistance program.
- Patients will not be eligible for assistance unless they meet the Foundation’s financial need eligibility criteria.
- The foundation may ask at any time for further documentation to support a patient’s eligibility, including after any grant has been extended. Any falsification of an application is fraudulent and subject to potential criminal penalties and civil damages.
- In all cases, the patient will already be under the care of a physician with an oncology treatment regimen in place at the time of application.
- Grants are awarded to patients aged 18+.
- Financial assistance will be awarded directly to assist with expenses (We do not reimburse; we pay creditors directly). Applicants must supply copies of the bill, late notice, mortgage statement or lease agreement as well as a payment address and phone.
- An applicant for financial assistance from the Foundation shall automatically be disqualified from receiving assistance if he or she is a member of the Foundation’s Board of Directors, or a family member of such a director. For this purpose, a “family member” shall include the director’s spouse, ancestors, children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, and the spouses of his or her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. Such term shall also include a trust, conservatorship, Uniform Transfers to Minors Act account or other beneficial arrangement for the benefit of a director’s family member.
GEOGRAPHIC REQUIREMENTS
You must be receiving active oncology treatment in or reside in the following Central Iowa counties to be considered: Adams, Adair, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Carroll, Cass, Clarke, Dallas, Decatur, Greene, Guthrie, Hamilton, Jasper, Lucas, Madison, Mahaska, Marion, Marshall, Monroe, Polk, Poweshiek, Ringgold, Story, Taylor, Union, Warren, Wayne, Webster.
INCOME REQUIREMENTS
# in Household |
300% Federal Poverty Line |
1 |
$43,740 |
2 |
$59,160 |
3 |
$74,580 |
4 |
$90,000 |
5 |
$105,420 |
6 |
$120,840 |
7 |
$136,260 |
8 |
$151,680 |