Utah · Nonprofit
PEDIATRIC SPINE FOUNDATION
PEDIATRIC SPINE FOUNDATION (Utah) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,711,721 to it, the largest being THE WYSS MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC ($1,041,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $7.7M
What Pediatric Spine Foundation does
Mission
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.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Pediatric Spine Foundation leads a community of individuals dedicated to improving the quality of care and the outcome of treatment for young patients and families dealing with complex spine deformity. The Pediatric Spine Foundation focuses its efforts in three areas: research, education, and patient access to care. In 2024, the foundation supported multiple research studies on new treatments, quality of life, and complications, including two randomized controlled clinical trials. The foundation also supports 14 research interest groups to facilitate, discuss, and prioritize research projects. The foundation hosted multiple forums for clinicians to discuss best practices and to disseminate findings, including the international congress on early onset scoliosis. The foundation supported multiple families travel to obtain access to quality care.
$1,681,522 spentof which $202,613 as grants$307,500 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,681,522.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $3.5M to $6.3M (+79%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of PEDIATRIC SPINE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Tricia St Hilaire Mph
Executive director
Board chair
Steve Schwartz
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $353k → $34k.
5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of PEDIATRIC SPINE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
PEDIATRIC SPINE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
37% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund PEDIATRIC SPINE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 67% · 2019 98% · 2020 57% · 2021 42% · 2022 89% · 2023 67% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
71% of PEDIATRIC SPINE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
PEDIATRIC SPINE FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Utah, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $609k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
PEDIATRIC SPINE FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like PEDIATRIC SPINE FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PEDIATRIC SPINE FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PEDIATRIC SPINE FOUNDATION?
- PEDIATRIC SPINE FOUNDATION (Utah) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,711,721 to it, the largest being THE WYSS MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC ($1,041,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PEDIATRIC SPINE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,711,721 in grants to PEDIATRIC SPINE FOUNDATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PEDIATRIC SPINE FOUNDATION?
- THE WYSS MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,041,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PEDIATRIC SPINE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 12 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing