Bingo, raffles and the license: charitable gaming on this ground

ROW 82-6 · DUG · THE INDIANA GAMING COMMISSION'S CURRENT RECORD, READ NOVEMBER 2026

Charitable gaming in Indiana runs on a license, and the license record for this ground is short enough to print whole: under Indiana Code article 4-32.3, only a qualified tax-exempt organization may conduct bingo, raffles, casino game nights, pull tabs and the rest of the statutory list, and only under a license from the Indiana Gaming Commission's Charity Gaming Division — an annual activity license for a regular course, a single-activity or festival license for an occasion. The Commission publishes its roll of qualified organizations with current licenses as a single statewide list. Read whole for this ground in November 2026 — every "Granger" and every "46530" entry extracted — the roll seats exactly four qualified organizations at Granger addresses: Harris Baseball Softball, Inc., 52150 Currant Road (organization no. 017786); Horizon Elementary PTO, 12415 Stagecoach Court (no. 018547); PHM Non Profit Organizations Inc, 17301 Post Tavern Road (no. 015960); and St. Pius X Catholic Church–Granger, 52553 Fir Road (no. 013051).

The second half of the finding is in the columns those four rows leave blank. Licensed organizations on the same roll carry a reference number, a license type, an allowed-activities string — BGO (bingo), RAF (raffle), PPT (pull tabs), CGN (casino game night) — and an expiry date; the roll's licensed parishes and Legion posts elsewhere in the county show exactly that full form. All four Granger rows carry none of it: no reference number, no license type, no activities, no expiry. On the Commission's own record as published, then, Granger's churches, school and civic organizations stand qualified — examined and enrolled as eligible to apply — and none of them holds a current charitable-gaming activity license. The parish festival, the school raffle and the ball-league drawing, as this ground actually runs them, live below the license line: in the statute's exempt band for small-prize occasions (the Commission's forms carry the exempt-activity notification for prizes of $2,500 or less a time, $7,500 a year), or are simply not run as gaming at all. There is no bingo hall in Granger, there never has been one in the record, and the license database — the settling source the audit named — is the proof.

Sources:

1. Indiana Gaming Commission, Charity Gaming Division — "Qualified Organizations with Current Licenses" (in.gov/igc, read whole November 2026; the four Granger/46530 rows extracted verbatim; the blank license fields read against the roll's licensed rows).
2. Indiana Gaming Commission, Charity Gaming Basics (2026) and the charity-gaming forms record — the qualified-organization frame, the license types (CG-AL, CG-SL, CG-FES), the exempt-activity notification and its $2,500/$7,500 bands; Indiana Code art. 4-32.3.