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Granger Charities

Section 13 of 89 in the Granger record · 12 entry pages

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Charities

Granger has no charities file in the banked build, and the reason is this section's whole subject: an unincorporated place with no city hall has no charities of its own in the civic sense — its poor relief runs through the two township trustees (carried whole in the Government leg, where register row #1 stands covered), and almost every organized charity that serves its people is seated in South Bend or Mishawaka and serves a county. This addendum therefore builds the leg under a test, applied article by article and shown each time: an agency enters at full size if it is seated inside the CDP; at documented-service size if its service to Granger is itself documented; and at boundary size — named, dated, seated elsewhere, pointed to — if it is a county institution this ground used but cannot claim. What survives that test as genuinely Granger's is short and is printed first-class: a disability neighborhood on Hollyhock Road, a Rotary club with a playground in a township park, a farmers-market food drive, and a parish. The rest is the county's charitable century, carried at the county's size because Granger's people were its clients, members and donors — and the difference is never blurred.

The benevolent-society era: parish societies at the county seat, township relief at home — and no benevolent society seated on this ground

19th century–1922 · the era tested at both ends

The ground's own era: In the benevolent-society century, relief on this ground was the township's, not a society's: the overseers of the poor, then the Harris and Clay township trustees, administered what the law provided — the…

The federation line: federated giving → community chest → United Way — with the Indiana line's own dates printed as the record gives them, conflict and all

1914 / 1963 – November 2026 · United Way of St. Joseph County, South Bend-seated, county-serving

The present holder, first: The line's current holder is United Way of St. Joseph County Inc., seated at 3517 East Jefferson Boulevard, South Bend (EIN 35-1063368), led as of this section by its president and CEO Mark Herriman…

The YMCA and the YWCA: no branch on this ground — the county's Y at the boundary, its camp named, and the YWCA across the same line

1909–2026 · both tested

The YMCA test: No YMCA or YWCA branch is or was seated inside the CDP in the record reached; the ground's seated fitness institution is a health system's (Beacon Health & Fitness, carried as a firm in the Businesses leg), and the…

The Salvation Army and the Red Cross: the Kroc Center at the boundary, its gift source named — and no Granger drive or chapter seat on this ground

2007–2026 · both county-seated in South Bend

The Salvation Army, with the Kroc gift whole: The Army's named center for this county is the Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center in South Bend, and its gift source is the largest single charitable bequest of its kind in the…

Catholic Charities and the parish-relief line: a diocesan century, a Vincentian century — and one parish on this ground

1904–2026 · the denominational set

Catholic Charities, diocesan and boundary-printed: Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Fort Wayne–South Bend celebrated its centennial in 2022, and the diocesan paper's account fixes the founding: in 1922 Bishop Herman J.…

The disability charities: the one charity neighborhood seated on this ground, the community-resources agency across the line, and the camp

1937–2026 · Hannah & Friends seated in the CDP's own ZIP; LOGAN and ADEC at the boundary

Seated here — Hannah & Friends: The disability set contains this section's clearest Granger seat. Hannah and Friends Inc. (EIN 30-0171137) files its Form 990 from 51250 Hollyhock Road, South Bend, IN 46637 — the Granger ZIP, on…

The rescue, homeless and food set: two South Bend houses, a six-county food bank — and the one Granger point where the set touches this ground

1954–2026 · each with founding and present state

Hope Ministries (the rescue mission of the set): Hope Ministries, South Bend — the mission house at 532 South Michigan Street, with its men's emergency shelter and residential programs at 432 South Lafayette Boulevard — stands on…

The community foundation as the pooled vehicle: the county's endowment house, and the Granger-named-fund test run against its public record

1992–November 2026 · South Bend-seated, county-wide by charter

The vehicle: The Community Foundation of St. Joseph County Inc., seated at 305 South Michigan Street, South Bend, is the pooled vehicle of the register's pattern: on its own published account, "since 1992, the Community…

The service clubs at record size: one Rotary club at full strength, and Kiwanis and Lions tested to a negative

To November 2026 · documented strength only

Granger Sunrise Rotary — the set's one full entry: The Granger Sunrise Rotary Club is this ground's service club of record, a Rotary International club seated in Granger and documented across a decade of the township's own paper…

The scout councils: the present council whole, its camps named — and the full merger succession standing as a named gap with its settler

LaSalle Council (no. 165), South Bend · the succession partly documented

What stands whole: The council serving Granger's troops today is the LaSalle Council (council no. 165), seated in South Bend, covering northern Indiana and southern Michigan, with the Sakima Lodge of the Order of the Arrow and…

Closures, named: Big Brothers Big Sisters of this region closed in June 2025 — the leg does not carry the dead as living

June 2025 · the current cycle's closure, with its successor named

The closure: Big Brothers Big Sisters Southern Lake Michigan Region Inc. — the mentoring corporation formed 1 January 2020 when Big Brothers Big Sisters of St. Joseph County Inc. (the county's house since its 1970-era ruling)…

The sector as it stands: a directory-state closing, as of November 2026

Dated closing article · state as of November 2026

Seated inside the CDP: Hannah and Friends Inc., 51250 Hollyhock Road (46637) — active, filing, its residential neighborhood and programs running (Form 990 record; founders' foundation, disability set). Granger Sunrise Rotary Club…

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Source: Granger Charities, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/granger/charities/