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

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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 ground this build covers — with year of formation 2003 in the filing (the foundation's public founding is generally given as 2004, by Notre Dame head coach Charlie Weis and his wife Maura, for their daughter Hannah; both dates stand printed, the filing's and the public account's, unreconciled). Its 990 mission states the work plainly: a better quality of life for children and adults with special needs, including its Hannah's Helping Hands grants to families. On its 40-acre property the foundation built what its accounts call a neighborhood — a residential community for adults with special needs, with day programs, summer camps and after-school activities (thirteen residents living on the property in a recent published account) — on land the Weises assembled south of the state line's school ground in the 2007 approvals the Tribune covered, the project already giving, by then, to Challenger baseball, Reins of Life and LOGAN Center. A national coach's foundation, filed from a Granger address, housing its residents on Granger ground: this is the CDP-seated disability charity at full size, and the only one of its set that is.

At the boundary — LOGAN, ADEC, and the camp: LOGAN Community Resources Inc. (LOGAN Center), South Bend-seated at 2505 East Jefferson Boulevard, is the community-resources agency of the pattern: founded 1950 by Joe and Sophie Newman for children like their daughter Rita Jo — its Form 990 gives year of formation 1950 and a treasury that began, on the Tribune's anniversary account, with $25 — grown by its 75th anniversary in 2025 to some 1,600 clients, 600 staff (a top-twenty county employer), and services from therapies and specialty camps to employment, day services and community living, including the Sonya A. Ansari Center for Autism. It serves the county, Granger families inside it; no Granger site is published, and none is claimed. ADEC — founded 1952 as the Council for Retarded Children of Elkhart County, renamed the Association for the Disabled of Elkhart County by the 1970s, Bristol-seated — serves over 1,000 individuals across St. Joseph and Elkhart counties on the Indiana General Assembly's 2017 account, the second county's agency reaching into this one's eastern edge; boundary-printed as Elkhart County's house with a documented two-county service. The camp of the set is Camp Millhouse, on the southwest side of South Bend since 1940: begun 1937 as a camp for children with polio, remade as the vaccine era emptied that purpose into a residential summer camp for children and adults with disabilities — the children's-campus line the register asks for, in this county's form: a founding purpose that vanished, an institution that changed its clientele and kept its ground.

Sources:

  1. Hannah and Friends Inc., IRS Form 990 (tax year 2021) — 51250 Hollyhock Road, South Bend, IN 46637; EIN 30-0171137; year of formation 2003; the mission statement. Hannah & Friends Foundation published account — founding by Charlie and Maura Weis (publicly given as 2004); the 40-acre residential neighborhood. South Bend Tribune, 2007 (via MBRL/ProQuest) — the board approval of the Hannah & Friends project and its early grants.
  2. LOGAN Community Resources Inc., IRS Form 990 (fiscal year 2021–22) — 2505 E. Jefferson Blvd; year of formation 1950; the mission and the 1,500-families reach. South Bend Tribune, LOGAN 75th-anniversary account (November 2025) — Joe and Sophie Newman, the $25 treasury, 1,600 clients, 600 staff. Notre Dame Magazine, "A Community That Cares" — the Newman founding and the Hannah & Friends adjacency.
  3. Indiana General Assembly, HCR 0061 (2017) — ADEC founded 1952 as the Council for Retarded Children of Elkhart County; the 1970s name; service over 1,000 in St. Joseph and Elkhart counties. Camp Millhouse published accounts — begun 1937 for children with polio; at its present South Bend site since 1940; the present disability camp.

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Source: The disability charities: the one charity neighborhood seated on this ground, the community-resources agency across the line, and the camp, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/granger/charities/disability-charities-the-one-charity-neighborhood-seated-on-this/