Support the OSF HealthCare Cancer Institute
Donate to OSF Cancer InstituteWhen you give to OSF HealthCare Cancer Institute, you help bring hope, healing and advanced treatment to people facing cancer across Illinois and beyond. Your generosity supports life-saving research, leading-edge technology and compassionate programs that care for the whole person – body, mind and spirit. Because of donors like you, families can access world-class treatment and move forward with confidence and hope.
Why Your Gift Matters
Cancer affects every part of a person’s life – physical, emotional, financial and spiritual. Your gift helps ensure patients receive care regardless of their ability to pay, while supporting services that treat more than just the disease.
Philanthropy allows OSF HealthCare Cancer Institute to provide financial assistance, patient navigation, emotional and spiritual support, transportation help, and access to innovative treatments and clinical trials. Your support helps remove barriers to care, expands treatment options and gives patients and families strength when they need it most.
Your Impact in Action
$25
Your gift provides a mastectomy shirt for easy post-surgery wear.
$40
Your generosity gives 100 patients stress balls for treatment days.
$50
You help assemble a care pack filled with essentials for chemo patients.
Where Your Gift Goes
Phase 1 Clinical Trials
Your gift helps support early-phase clinical trials that explore new and advanced cancer treatments. These studies give patients access to emerging therapies while helping researchers discover safer and more effective care options.
CEFCU Teaching Kitchen
Your support helps patients and families learn how nutrition and holistic wellness can support healing. The teaching kitchen offers hands-on education and practical tools to help people manage side effects, strengthen recovery and improve overall well-being.
Lodging and Transportation
Cancer treatment often requires frequent travel. Your gift helps provide lodging and transportation assistance, which reduces stress and helps patients stay focused on healing rather than travel logistics or financial strain.
Screenings
Early detection saves lives. Donor support helps expand access to screenings that can identify cancer early – often before symptoms begin – giving patients the best chance for successful treatment and long-term health.
Navigation
Cancer can be overwhelming. Your gift supports financial and patient navigation programs that help families understand treatment options, coordinate care and connect with resources to help them move through their cancer journey with confidence.
Support Services
Your generosity helps fund support groups, educational programs, counseling services and community partnerships that care for emotional and spiritual needs. These services help patients and families feel supported every step of the way.
Technology and Innovation
Donor support helps bring advanced technology and innovative treatment options to patients close to home. Gifts help fund leading-edge therapies, advanced imaging and precision treatment options that improve outcomes and reduce side effects.