The Seth Foundation was created more than 13 years ago in upstate New York.  A boy named Seth was born in 1990 with a severe, previously undiagnosed, birth defect.  Seth was born to a middle class family with no previous children.  After birth, Seth needed several surgeries, treatments, medications, equipment, and daily, if not hourly care.  The family had health insurance, but many necessary items were not covered.  The family made several pleas for help from well known national children’s charities, all to no avail.  The national children’s charities could not help individual families or children in the way Seth’s family so desperately needed.  As a result, the family became responsible for the extra monetary burden which can often result in a significant decrease to the new family’s quality of life.

Seth and his family were very lucky as he overcame his life threatening medical condition. Seth’s struggle to survive and road to recovery was long and extremely costly.  Even with insurance, the bills continued to mount and it was apparent there needed to be somewhere families could turn for help.  Hence the formation of THE SETH FOUNDATION.