The Chase Fund was established in 2013 by CancerConnects and a local health advocate to provide financial assistance to non-breast cancer patients in Central New York. In 2014, generous donations from the community and special fundraisers allowed the Chase Fund to provide nearly $30,000 in assistance to cancer patients in need. This included $500 in gas and grocery cards for a father with late-stage colon cancer, $721 for supplemental health insurance premiums for a woman with lung cancer, and a special mortgage payment and heating fuel costs to prevent a 25-year employee with cancer from losing his home.