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) acquired the Lower West Michigan organization and took the regional name, serving St. Joseph County among its eight counties in northern Indiana and southern Michigan — closed in June 2025. The organization's own Facebook announcement, as the South Bend Tribune's account carries it, states that it shuttered its doors after 57 years because of challenges stemming from the pandemic: funds had slowly run out, and "we've reached a point where continuing is no longer sustainable." Around 300 children stood on its waiting list when it closed (Katie Craft, its director of programs, in the Tribune's account). It is printed here as closed, dated June 2025, and it appears in this section's closing directory below as closed — the register's discipline that the dead are not carried as living begins with this entry.

The successor, at its strength: The gap the closure left has a named, partial successor in the record: Resonant Vibe, a new nonprofit founded by Craft — the closed organization's director of programs for four and a half years — to continue mentorship and advocacy in St. Joseph and Elkhart counties, its youth mentorship program focused, at its August 2025 account, on children in those two counties. It is a successor in purpose, not in corporate form, and is printed at exactly that size. No other charity closure seated in or specifically serving Granger was published in the current cycle in the sources reached; the IRS revocation file's CDP-level extract is the settler for a systematic closure sweep, and is named as such in the directory article that follows.

Sources:

1. South Bend Tribune, August 2025 (Rayleigh Deaton), "New nonprofit provides mentorship, advocacy after local Big Brothers Big Sisters closed" — the June 2025 closure; the organization's Facebook statement (57 years; the pandemic's toll); the 300-child waiting list; Katie Craft and Resonant Vibe.
2. Big Brothers Big Sisters Southern Lake Michigan Region Inc., audited financial report, FY2019–2018 (June 2020) — the corporate course: formerly Big Brothers and Big Sisters of St. Joseph County Inc.; the 1 January 2020 Lower West Michigan acquisition and name change; the St. Joseph County-centered service.
3. Settler named for a systematic closure sweep: the IRS exempt-organizations revocation/termination file, extracted for the CDP.