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Leukemia Care Fund · opened October 2026

Help cover Nick Bukur II’s transplant, chemotherapy, and lodging.

Nick is facing a bone marrow transplant and chemotherapy. Insurance will not pay all of it. This fund is $100,000 for the transplant, the chemotherapy left to him, a place to stay during treatment, and the other costs the plan does not cover.

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Nick Bukur II Care Account

For Nick Bukur II. An administrator adds the bank.

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Nick Bukur IILodging during treatment

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Leukemia Care Fund

One hundred thousand dollars for the care insurance leaves behind.

Nick Bukur II needs a bone marrow transplant and chemotherapy. The hospital bill is not the whole bill. What insurance will not pay is the reason this fund exists.

The $100,000 goal is split across the transplant, chemotherapy costs the plan does not cover, lodging while treatment is away from home, and the other treatment costs that still come due. Those figures are the plan for the goal. They are not copied from a hospital statement.

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A quiet healing garden at sunrise, with a wooden bench and a stone path.
Lodging and the days around treatment are part of the cost.

Where it goes

How the $100,000 goal is divided.

  • Bone marrow transplant

    $45,000

    The part of the transplant insurance does not pay: the procedure, the donor search, and the care wrapped around it.

  • Chemotherapy the plan will not cover

    $30,000

    Chemotherapy costs left with Nick after insurance, including copays and drugs the plan refuses.

  • Lodging during treatment

    $15,000

    A place to stay when treatment keeps him away from home, for Nick and whoever is with him.

  • Other uncovered treatment costs

    $10,000

    The rest of care that does not fit a copay or a hotel bill, and still has to be paid.

Together, $100,000. These amounts are the plan for the goal, not hospital invoices.

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Who already pays

The people and funds that cover treatment costs.

Household gifts move a page like this. The checks that actually pay copays, lodging, and rent come from a short list of charities, and from donors who already fund those charities and cancer centers.

These funds are where a transplant patient actually applies. The major donors below give to cancer centers, not to a family’s page. Do not send them a personal appeal from this site.

Funds a patient can apply to

  • NMDP

    Transplant

    Grants for bone marrow and cell transplant. Patients use them for copays, temporary housing, food, and travel. A navigator or the transplant center usually applies.

    Official site

  • Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

    Blood cancer

    Copay help and travel assistance, including lodging, for people with a blood cancer. Funds open and close.

    Official site

  • Family Reach

    Rent, utilities, food

    Pays non-medical bills for families in cancer treatment. Copay charities usually cannot cover the lease.

    Official site

  • CancerCare

    Copays and rides

    Co-payment help for prescribed treatment, plus smaller grants for getting to care.

    Official site

  • PAN Foundation

    Copays and travel

    Grants for insured patients with high out-of-pocket drug costs. Enrolled patients can also get a small travel grant.

    Official site

  • HealthWell Foundation

    Oncology copays

    Cancer-specific copay funds. A fund has to be open for that diagnosis, and it closes when the money runs out.

    Official site

  • Patient Advocate Foundation

    Copays and premiums

    Co-Pay Relief for insured people facing medication copays, coinsurance, deductibles, and premiums.

    Official site

  • American Cancer Society

    Lodging

    Hope Lodge gives patients and caregivers a free place to stay when treatment is away from home.

    Official site

Major donors on the public record

These gifts are published. None of them are an open invitation for a stranger to ask for a personal check.

  • Phil and Penny Knight

    $2 billion in 2025

    To Oregon Health & Science University’s Knight Cancer Institute, for trials, research, and patient support that includes financial counseling.

    They give to the institute they already built.

    Knight Cancer Institute

  • Jackie and Mike Bezos

    $710.5 million in 2022

    To Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, for cancer research and care. Jackie Bezos died in 2025.

    Gifts land at Fred Hutch, not in a family’s inbox.

    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

  • Ken Griffin

    $50 million in 2024

    For the research building at the University of Miami’s Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. That gift is a facility, not lodging or copays.

    A research building, not household bills.

    Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center

  • Tom Golisano

    Hope Lodge lodging

    Public gifts to the American Cancer Society, including support for a Hope Lodge, where patients stay free during treatment.

    Lodging programs, through the Society.

    American Cancer Society

  • Ann and Robert H. Lurie

    Chicago cancer center

    Their foundation funded the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern. Ann Lurie died in 2024. The door is the center, not a personal letter.

    Northwestern’s cancer center.

    Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center

Questions

Where are donations held?

Gifts are sent with Cash App to @rhondabukur ($rhondabukur), for Nick Bukur II’s transplant, uncovered chemotherapy, lodging, and other treatment costs. This page does not hold the money.

How do I give?

Choose an amount and pay with Cash App to @rhondabukur. You can open cash.app/$rhondabukur or type $rhondabukur in the Cash App. This page does not take debit cards, credit cards, or Zelle, and it never sees a card number.

What is the $100,000 for?

The Leukemia Care Fund is for Nick Bukur II’s bone marrow transplant, chemotherapy costs insurance does not cover, lodging during treatment, and other uncovered treatment costs. The split on this page is the plan for the goal, not a set of hospital invoices.

Can I give without my name?

This page does not ask for your name. Cash App shows the sender’s name to the account that receives the gift.

Is a gift tax-deductible?

No. This page is not a registered charity. Do not treat anything here as a donation receipt.