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Your contribution directly funds hourly respite care, medical support, and emergency relief for family members carrying the heavy burden of ALS caregiving.
What your gift actually buys
We translate every donation into the one currency caregivers never have enough of: hours.
$50
Two hours of relief
Two hours of professional respite so a caregiver can attend their own medical appointment.
$250
A full day off
A single, uninterrupted day away from the house: the smallest grant we award.
$500
Twenty hours back
Roughly twenty hours of professional in-home care across a month of weekends.
$1,000
A quarter of breathing room
Our maximum single grant: sustained respite plus help with equipment or utilities.
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Every dollar, accounted for
How your donation is deployed
We are students. Nobody here draws a salary, rents an office, or bills the fund for travel. Our only deduction is the flat fee our fiscal sponsor takes from incoming donations, which pays for the 501(c)(3) status, the bookkeeping, the tax filings, and the card processing that make this fund legal and auditable.
93%
Direct respite & relief grants
Paid straight toward hourly professional respite care, lost-income relief, equipment, and utility emergencies for ALS families.
7%
Fiscal sponsorship fee
A flat fee deducted by our fiscal sponsor from incoming donations. It covers our 501(c)(3) status, bookkeeping and tax filing, and all card processing fees.
0%
Salaries & overhead
Every organizer is an unpaid student volunteer. No salaries, no office, no paid fundraising.
Verify us, don’t just trust us
Our fiscal sponsor publishes a live, public ledger of every transaction in and out of our account. You can audit us at any hour of any day, without asking our permission.
Advocacy
Why family caregiver support matters
The American care system has a structural blind spot. It will pay a licensed agency to send an aide into a home, but it will not pay, insure, or even formally recognize the wife, husband, or child already doing that work around the clock for free.
So the family absorbs it. A caregiver cuts their hours or leaves their job, losing income and employer health coverage at the same moment. Paid family leave, where it exists at all, is measured in weeks; ALS caregiving is measured in years. And when they finally hire professional relief for an afternoon, that bill is almost always paid out of pocket.
We treat that gap as the real emergency. Our grants are a stopgap, not a solution — so alongside them we publish anonymized data from every round and bring it to councils, school boards, and legislators who can change the policy underneath the problem.
Paid leave
Weeks, not years
Respite hours
Rarely reimbursed
Caregiver coverage
Often lost with the job
Tax deductibility & receipts
Cover The Caregiver is fiscally sponsored by The Hack Foundation (d.b.a. Hack Club), a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN: 81-2908499).
All donations are 100% tax-deductible to the full extent of the law. Instant tax receipts are emailed automatically upon donation.
Your receipt is issued by The Hack Foundation (d.b.a. Hack Club) and includes the sponsor’s EIN, 81-2908499, for your records. Keep it for your annual filing. If a receipt does not arrive within a few minutes, check your spam folder and then email us at[email protected].
Many employers match charitable gifts. Submitting a match through your employer’s portal under the fiscal sponsor’s name and EIN can double the respite hours your gift funds. Cover The Caregiver does not provide tax or legal advice; consult your own advisor.