Because the majority of St. Jude funding comes from generous donors, St. Jude has the freedom to focus on what matters most — saving kids regardless of their financial situation. Every dollar makes a difference.

$3

Help provide pediatric isolation masks to help protect patients with compromised immune systems.

$10

Help provide a new toy for hospital play areas or recreational areas at St. Jude housing facilities.

$36

Help provide a St. Jude family with meals for one day in the Kay Kafe, the St. Jude cafeteria.

$57

Help provide necessities for parents who may have hurriedly left home after their child's diagnosis.

$100

Help provide a platelet count test for two patients: Platelet counts are among the tests doctors use to monitor patient health during treatment.

$250

Help provide a meal card for a St. Jude family for one week: St. Jude provides patients and their families with meal cards for breakfast, lunch and dinner in Kay Kafe, the hospital's cafeteria.

$500

Help provide one platelet transfusion: During chemotherapy, the platelet count of patients can drop to dangerously low levels so platelet transfusions are essential for treatment.

$750

Help cover the cost of five days of oxygen for a St. Jude patient. During treatment, St. Jude patients may need oxygen to help their bodies function properly and aid in healing.

$1000

Help cover about two-thirds of the cost of one day of chemotherapy: Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall survival rate for childhood cancers from 20 percent when the hospital opened in 1962 to more than 80 percent today