Royal Arch Masons Children's Heart Foundation – Financial Assistance for Children's Heart Defects Royal Arch Masons Childrens Heart Foundation FINANCIAL ASSISTANCEFOR CHILDRENS HEART DEFECTS The purpose of the Royal Arch Masons Childrens Heart Foundation a Charitable Institution is to aid in financing medical and surgical care for children who have heart defects and whose parents are financially unable to assume the entire cost of these expensive operations without great and undue sacrifices being suffered by the family. IN ALL CASES THE APPLICATION WHEN COMPLETED WILL BE PROCESSED BY THE TRUSTEES OF THE FOUNDATION. This charity makes NO DISTINCTION AS TO RACE COLOR CREED OR DENOMINATION and is limited to children under the age of eighteen 18 years. The Royal Arch Masons Childrens Heart Foundation shall consider those children whose parents or legal guardians are residents of the State of Washington for a PERIOD OF NOT LESS THAN SIX MONTHS prior to date of application or operation which ever comes first.