Q4 Impact Report: $13,952 Delivered to Ray of Hope, 28 Grants for Colorado Cancer Patients

Last October, Social Dispensary committed Q4 of 2025 to Ray of Hope Cancer Foundation through the Be.Social Community Program. We told you why we chose them: a Colorado nonprofit that hands cancer patients a financial lifeline without red tape, trusting them to use it where they need it most.

This week we received the impact report. Here is where every dollar landed.

What Q4 Looked Like in Numbers

The Be.Social Community partnership directed $13,952 to Ray of Hope. That funding covered 28 grants for Colorado cancer patients in the early months of 2026 — real bills paid, real stress lifted, in real homes.

Ray of Hope’s grants do not restrict how the money gets spent. Patients use them for what their families actually need: rent, utilities, groceries, gas, property taxes, medical co-pays, the small things that tip a household into crisis when a paycheck stops arriving.

What the Grants Covered

The two recipients featured in Ray of Hope’s report — a Denver mom of six diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer, and a retired caregiver navigating treatment on almost no income — used their grants for the everyday essentials that buckle under medical bills:

• Property taxes (which kept one recipient in her home)
• Utilities, phone, and groceries during chemotherapy
• A wig as chemotherapy hair loss began
• Unexpected post-diagnosis expenses that arrived without warning

Multiply that pattern across 28 grants. That is what $13,952 in Q4 looked like at the household level.

How the Math Works

Be.Social Community is funded by 50 cents from every participating partner brand unit sold at Social. It is not a fee or upcharge — it is a portion of margin Social diverts to a featured Colorado nonprofit each quarter. Customers do not pay extra. Partner brands choose to participate.

Since 2022, the program has channeled more than $101,000 to Colorado community organizations. Ray of Hope is one chapter in that line.

Why It Matters

Cancer-Related Financial Toxicity is a documented public health crisis. Roughly three out of four cancer patients face significant financial hardship during treatment. Twenty-eight grants is a number. Twenty-eight families who did not have to choose between groceries and the electric bill is the actual outcome.

That is where $13,952 went.

What’s Next

The current Be.Social Community quarter is funding a new featured Colorado nonprofit. When that quarter closes, we will publish another report — that is how we hold ourselves accountable to the program, and to you.

Learn more about Be.Social Community, or learn about Ray of Hope’s ongoing work at rayofhopecancerfoundation.org.

To the partner brands who participated and to every customer who shopped this quarter — thank you. You did this.