Jake’s Help From Heaven Medical Travel Application
Jake’s Help from Heaven, founded in 2011, is a non-profit dedicated to supporting individuals with complex medical needs and disabilities resulting from congenital or childhood-onset diseases. Our primary objective is to improve the livelihoods of these persons as they confront the challenges of managing lifelong, debilitating illness.
Please read the following requirements carefully. Incomplete applications or those submitted in unacceptable formats will not be reviewed.
Grant Eligibility:
- Grants are limited to individuals living within 100 miles of Saratoga Springs, New York.
- Grants are restricted to individuals with complex medical needs and disabilities resulting from congenital or childhood-onset diseases. Applicants of all ages with lifelong, debilitating illnesses are welcome to apply.
Grant Criteria:
- A post-appointment letter or complete discharge notes from the treating doctor indicating reason(s) for treatment and the treatment dates are REQUIRED.
- Completed Expense Worksheet with all columns totaled. Applications will not be reviewed if the worksheet is not completed.
- Completion of the following application with the signature of pediatrician/primary care doctor or social worker.
- Receipts for reimbursement
- Applicants should submit their completed applications with all required documents at one time, and not in separate pieces.
- Electronic applications must be submitted in PDF format. We DO NOT accept jpegs or screenshots.
- There is a $2,500 cap per applicant per calendar year. Applicants may apply multiple times within a calendar year but are only eligible to be awarded a total of $2,500 within that year.
- Applicants requesting a grant of over $1,000 may be asked to submit a current income tax return or other financial information.
- Grants will be reviewed four times per year at the Board of Directors’ quarterly meetings. Approved grants will be awarded approximately 3 weeks after each meeting. Application deadlines and meeting dates can be found on Jakeshelpfromheaven.org.