Phoenix Stone Foundation

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“990-ez Part III line 31 supplement to follow (Additional program services with accomplishments for 2024): (1) Grants payed: In May, we paid $440 to send 4 nurses at Methodist Childrens Hospital to the Texas Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology Conference. In August we paid $1,440 to send 14 nurses at Methodist Childrens Hospital to a conference by the Association of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses. We paid 4 separate cancer patient families with economic hardship $500 to help them with end-of-life expenses ($2,000 total paid). Thus, in total, we paid $3,840 in grants in 2024. (2) The Admission Day support program provides a gift card to a nearby restaurant for patients who are transferring from the outpatient clinic to the hospital for inpatient care. We gave $5,300 worth of gift cards to 325 patients in 2024. (3) Bone Marrow Transplant Support Bags provide some comfort and joy in the midst of the extended hospital stay associated with a bone marrow transplant. Inside are personalized gifts that can help brighten the days in such long hospital stays. In 2024 we provided 14 of these BMT Support Bags to patients at Methodist Childrens Hospital for a total cost of $3,550. (4) When families are given the tragic news that their child is at the end of their life, we provide support boxes with items that are meant to provide some measure of stress relief and comfort. We provided support to 19 families facing this terrible situation in 2024 for a total of $4,750. (5) We offer gift cards to families who are having to go through a day of scans to check on the progress of their childs cancer or the effect of their childs treatments. These are meant to provide something to look forward to after the anxiety of such an ordeal. Four families asked for scan day support in 2024 for a total of $200. (6) We meet periodically with the nurses and social work teams at Dell Childrens Hospital and Methodist Childrens Hospital, and we ask them of any needs that they have that we might be able to help with. In 2024, we were able to provide multiple items for teens and children to use at the outpatient clinic as they received treatments and check-ups, such as: art supplies, books, headphones, buzzy bees (these provide pain relief during shots), etc. We estimate that these requests provided support for between 300 to 400 patients in 2024 for a total of $6,643.22”