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· Public charity

Pediatric Spine Foundation

Provide structure and funding to support education, provide family support, and conduct prospective and retrospective studies by surgeons and researchers studying complex chest wall and spine deformities in the growing child.

$203k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$238kScience & Tech$226k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $125,190, the rows itemized in this filing. The $202,613 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $77,423 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $119k
$15,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$7.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GILLETTE CHILDREN SPECIALTY HEALTHCARE$35,040
DAYTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$22,500
CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER$20,000
TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK$15,000
WELLSTAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE$13,750
INDIANA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH$12,250
SANFORD RESEARCH$6,650
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE NEMOURS FOUNDATION: $6k → 10%MAYO CLINIC: $6k → 9%GILLETTE CHILDREN SPECIALTY HEALTHCARE: $35k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $49k → 22%THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $107k → 17%CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $20k → 14%WELLSTAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $14k → 8%INDIANA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH: $12k → 16%DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $23k → 14%SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%WCG IRB: $9k → 11%SANFORD RESEARCH: $27k → 9%THE NEMOURS FOUNDATION: $6k → 10%MAYO CLINIC: $6k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $23k → 22%THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $16k → 17%DAYTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $23k → 14%SANFORD RESEARCH: $7k → 9%TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $15k → 17%DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $15k → 14%THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $11k → 17%DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $9k → 14%THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $6k → 17%TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $15k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
NY
SD
IN
OH
PA
NJ
DE
DC
GA

Grants abroad, by region: $22k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

North America (Canada and Mexico)$22k · 100% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: RESEARCH PROJECT SUPPORT

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$186k · 4 repeat orgs$110k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
2

Total granted

$186k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+190%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’21’22’23’24
HealthPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
    2× · 2017–2022 · $72k · revenue +88%
  • DC
    DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    4× · 2021–2024 · $69k · revenue +49%
  • TN
    THE NEMOURS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2023 · $11k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • WC
    WIRB Copernicus Group Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $9k
  • SC
    Seattle Children's Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +190%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
2
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
3
East Tennessee Children's Hospital Association Inc

East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…

Health
4
Variety Children's Hospital

To inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child.

Health
5
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
6
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation

Children's hospital of pittsburgh foundation is the sole fundraising arm of upmc children's hospital of pittsburgh.the foundation exists to provide financial support for the hospital's mission of improving the health and well-being of…

Health
7
Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…

Health
8
Stc Healthcare Partners Llc

Website: https://towerhealth.org/locations/st-christophers-hospital- children stc opco, llc (st. christopher's hospital for children) provides a full range of high-quality healthcare services to all children and youth up to age 21 who seek…

Health
9
Miami Children's Health System Inc

Nicklaus Children's Health System is the region's only healthcare system exclusively for children. Our mission is to inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child. TO PERFORM THE FUNCTIONS OF, OR TO…

Health
10
Children's Hospital

Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…

Health
11
Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
12
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Ann & robert h. lurie children's hospital of chicago is dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dayton Children's Hospital; the most unlike its peers is Wellstar Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $72,051 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIADAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $68,750 · HealthDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITALGillette Children's Specialty Healthcare: $35,040 · HealthGillette Children's Specialty HealthcareCHILDREN'S NATIONAL: $20,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S NATIONALMAYO CLINIC: $11,750 · HealthMAYO CLINICTHE NEMOURS FOUNDATION: $11,450 · HealthTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $155,330 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY I…SANFORD: $33,900 · OtherSANFORDTRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $15,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF COLUMB…Indiana University School of Medicine: $12,250 · OtherIndiana University…WIRB Copernicus Group Inc: $9,295 · OtherWIRB Copernicus Gr…Seattle Children's Foundation: $5,100 · OtherSeattle Children's…WELLSTAR FOUNDATION INC: $13,750 · Philanthropy
Health$219,041Education$155,330Other$75,545Philanthropy$13,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $155,330 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $72,051 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $68,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGillette Children's Specialty Healthcare: $35,040 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S NATIONAL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWELLSTAR FOUNDATION INC: $13,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $11,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEMOURS FOUNDATION: $11,450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation: $5,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Pediatric Spine Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pediatric Spine Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Nemours Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Pediatric Spine Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Pediatric Spine Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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