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Ryan Seacrest Foundation Inc

The ryan seacrest foundation (rsf) is a nonprofit organization that brings interactive media studios to children's hospitals that help spark creativity, build confidence and support emotional healing, enriching each child's hospital experience and complementing their care.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$500k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $50,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,814,435 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,764,435 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.
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COHEN CHILDREN'SMEDICAL CENTER$25,000
PRIMARY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$25,000
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 (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $10k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL PHILADELPHIA: $10k → 22%CHOC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $10k → 10%COHEN CHILDREN'SMEDICAL CENTER: $25k → 6%CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $10k → 14%CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER OF WASHINGTON: $10k → 14%ARNOLD PALMER HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $25k → 13%MONROE CARELL JRCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $10k → 14%LEVINE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $10k → 10%PRIMARY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $25k → 8%CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA: $10k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL COLORADO: $10k → 10%CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $10k → 16%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $10k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL PHILADELPHIA: $10k → 22%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY: $10k → 10%CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $10k → 14%CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $10k → 14%ARNOLD PALMER HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 13%MONROE CARELL JR CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT VANDERBILT: $10k → 14%LEVINE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $10k → 10%CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA: $10k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL COLORADO: $10k → 10%CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $10k → 16%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $10k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL PHILADELPHIA: $10k → 22%CHOC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $10k → 10%CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $10k → 14%CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $10k → 14%MONROE CARELL JR CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT VANDERBILT: $10k → 14%LEVINE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $10k → 10%CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA: $10k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL COLORADO: $10k → 10%CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $10k → 16%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $10k → 16%CHOC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $10k → 10%CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER OF DALLAS: $10k → 14%CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $10k → 14%MONROE CARELL JR CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT VANDERBILT: $10k → 14%CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA: $10k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL COLORADO: $10k → 10%CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $10k → 16%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

NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
UT
CO
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of Ryan Seacrest Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Ryan Seacrest Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$425k · 11 repeat orgs$75k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +95% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
1

Total granted

$425k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+95%
+24%

Still filing today

91%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HEALTH SYSTEM OF TEXAS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +106%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +53%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • LB
    Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation
    3× · 2023–2025 · $25k · revenue +24%
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
Beth Israel Hospital & Children's Hospital Medical Care Corporation

Pediatric healthcare, education & research

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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
Cook Children's Health Care System

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

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
Variety Children's Hospital

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

Health
7
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
8
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
9
Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation

Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…

Health
10
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
11
Texas Children's Hospital

Texas children's hospital, headquartered in houston, texas, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and…

Health
12
Cook Children's Physician Network

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Long Island Jewish Medical Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

14 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
13/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S HEALTH SYSTEM OF TEXAS: $40,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALTH SYSTEM OF TEXASCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $40,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTERCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $40,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONChildren's Hospital Corporation: $40,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital CorporationCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $40,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INCChildren's Hospital Colorado: $40,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital ColoradoCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY: $40,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTYVanderbilt University Medical Center: $40,000 · HealthVanderbilt University Medical CenterOrlando Health Foundation Inc: $35,000 · HealthOrlando Health Foundation IncTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $30,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIALe Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation: $25,000 · HealthLe Bonheur Children's Hospital FoundationLONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER: $25,000 · HealthLONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTERINTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · HealthINTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INCTHE CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG HOSPITAL AUTH DBA ATRIUM HEALTH: $40,000 · OtherTHE CHARL…
Health$460,000Other$40,000

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 budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH SYSTEM OF TEXAS: $40,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $40,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $40,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $40,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado: $40,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY: $40,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $40,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetOrlando Health Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLe Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 3y, 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.

  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH SYSTEM OF TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds Orlando Health Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds LONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Child's Play
Child's PlayWA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ryan Seacrest Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ryan Seacrest Foundation Inc. 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Ryan Seacrest Foundation Inc 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 14 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $981k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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