World-class cancer care exists.
Too many families can't get to it.
When John Angelo left his final treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering, he asked a simple question. The JRA Foundation was built to answer it — covering the costs that insurance won't, so every family can focus on healing.
"I don't know how people who don't have the means do this, and access care."
John Robert Angelo · Leaving Memorial Sloan Kettering
He was talking about toll receipts. About parking. About the quiet, compounding costs that add up over months of treatment — the ones insurance never covers. His question became our purpose.
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Direct assistance for the costs between diagnosis and care.
Transportation
Gas, mileage, rideshare, tolls. Cancer centers are often hours from home. Getting there — repeatedly, over months — costs money families haven't budgeted for.
Lodging
Early procedures, extended treatment days, out-of-area specialists. Sometimes a hotel is unavoidable. Insurance never covers it.
Parking
Major cancer centers charge $30–60 per visit. Over a full treatment cycle, that becomes a real, recurring burden on top of everything else.
Meals
All-day chemotherapy means someone needs to eat. A caregiver sitting with a patient for eight hours needs to eat. These costs compound over months.
This is what too many families live with for months.
The machines, the drives, the waiting rooms. The JRA Foundation exists to make sure the cost of getting here is never the reason someone doesn't come back.
See Our ImpactHelp a family get to treatment.
When you give to the JRA Foundation, you're not funding a research study or a clinical trial. You're paying for a family's gas tank on the way to chemotherapy. You're covering a parking garage bill. You're buying dinner for a caregiver who's been sitting in a hospital since 7am.
It's immediate. It's tangible. And it changes what's possible for that family.