Late NASCAR driver Kyle Busch and his wife, Samantha Busch, helped welcome more than 100 babies, conceived through IVF, as part of their Bundle of Joy Fund.
Kyle, who died on Thursday, May 21 at age 41, and Samantha, 39, started the fund in 2015, inspired by their own fertility journey. The couple welcomed son Brexton via IVF that same year, and later daughter Lennix in 2022.
The Bundle of Joy Fund touts on its website that it has “awarded over 150 grants valued at more than $2 million, helping bring over 100 beautiful babies into the world.”
Kyle died unexpectedly after being found unresponsive in a racing simulator and rushed to the hospital on Wednesday, May 20.
“The medical evaluation provided to the Busch Family concluded that severe pneumonia progressed into sepsis, resulting in rapid and overwhelming associated complications,” his family said in a statement on Saturday, May 23. “The Family asks for continued understanding and privacy during this difficult time.”
Kyle’s death came less than a year after Samantha opened up about the struggle that the couple went through after Brexton was born and they desperately tried to have a second baby. That included what she called a “very sudden miscarriage” that put a strain on their marriage.
“We had a lot of marital struggles because we had never dealt with something so heavy and we didn’t understand how each other were grieving and we didn’t understand what each other needed in that time and place, so it was a struggle,” she explained in a July 2025 episode of the “Unlocked with Savannah Chrisley” podcast. “So we worked on it. We worked really hard. We went to marriage counseling.”
She continued, “I just had this immense guilt and I was so mad at myself for it. Kyle, on the other hand, he was like, ‘You know, I’m not trying to sound cold, but it’s done. There’s nothing that you can do to change this outcome. We have to keep moving forward.’”
After Brexton was born, Samantha said, the couple tried to conceive again via IVF. When that didn’t work, they considered using the help of a gestational carrier. But after considering several candidates, including a stranger that approached Samantha on social media, that option fell through as well. She and Kyle again turned to IVF, and Samantha found herself pregnant with twin girls.
“We went back two weeks later and both of them were gone,” Samantha said. “Unfortunately, my body thought I was still pregnant and wouldn’t miscarry, so my body was growing two empty sacs. I let that go for a bit until, unfortunately, I had to have a D&C two days before Mother’s Day.”
In one last attempt to have another baby, they went back to one of their potential carriers and Lennix arrived in May 2022.
Brexton and Lennix were both on-hand at the Coca-Cola 600 on Sunday, May 24, where their dad was supposed to race. He was honored before the event started with a moment of silence and the Amazon Prime broadcast went silent on the eighth lap, matching Kyle’s now-retired number with Richard Childress Racing.
