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, working in its own published terms on early learning, youth success, stable families and critical needs, and describing its mission as mobilizing the community to collectively reduce poverty across St. Joseph County — Granger's townships inside that county, as clients and as donors, which is this institution's Granger test: county-serving at documented strength, seated outside the line. Directory records of its recent filings put its revenue at about $3.4 million and assets at about $12.7 million (Cause IQ's researched listing, from its Form 990 record).

The succession, and the conflict inside it: The national succession — federation, community chest, United Fund, United Way — is the shape every local line of this kind followed, and the Indiana corporation's own published tradition claims the line's start here in 1914: its published account states that it has contributed more than $122 million to St. Joseph County individuals and organizations since 1914, and directory summaries repeat a 1914 founding. Against that stands the federal record: the Internal Revenue Service's exempt-organizations record gives United Way of St. Joseph County Inc. an exempt ruling date of June 1963. The two are printed standing, unreconciled, because they measure different things and neither source reached for this section explains the other: the 1914 date is the organization's claimed community-chest-era ancestry — the federated campaign its predecessors ran in South Bend from the 1910s — and the 1963 date is the present corporation's federal ruling. What this section could not do from open sources is date the name-changes in between — the year the South Bend campaign took the Community Chest name, the United Fund name, and the United Way name in turn — and that want is named as the line's open seam, with its settler: the organization's own archive and the Community Chest-era Tribune record, as the register specifies.Greater St. Joseph — St. Joseph, Missouri — a different corporation in a different state, and none of its dates are used here; the similarity of the names is exactly the four-doors trap the Sources leg warns of, and it is flagged so the error cannot travel further.

The Granger share: No campaign, drive or allocation specific to Granger was published in the sources reached; the ground's share of the federation line is the county share — its residents in the donor base of the corridor employers and its families in the client counts of the partner agencies carried through this section. Printed at that size, as the test requires.

Sources:

1. United Way of St. Joseph County, published account (uwsjc.org, as carried in directory and WNIT partner records) — the mission, the focus areas, the more-than-$122-million-since-1914 claim, the Jefferson Boulevard seat.
2. IRS exempt-organizations record via findCRA / TaxExemptWorld listings — EIN 35-1063368; 3517 E. Jefferson Blvd, South Bend; exempt ruling date June 1963; Mark Herriman, president & CEO.
3. Cause IQ directory listing, South Bend — revenue about $3.4 million, assets about $12.7 million, 20 employees (from the Form 990 record).
4. Settler named for the name-change dates: the organization's archive + the Community Chest-era South Bend Tribune record. The Missouri chronology (St. Joseph Federation for Charity and Philanthropy, 1916; Community Chest 1933; United Fund 1957) is a different corporation's and is expressly not used.