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One Y carries its founding in its tax filings; the other's stands in its camp and its merger, its founding year unstated in any carrier reached. YWCA North Central Indiana — founded 1903: the year stands in the organisation's own Form 990 (year of formation 1903) and in its "since 1903" claim; headquarters 1102 S. Fellows Street, South Bend; EIN 35-0868226; its work includes two domestic-abuse shelters — the county's standing refuge system, entered here at this section's requirement. The YMCA — its dug course runs by its camp and its consolidation: Camp Eberhart, on Corey Lake, Michigan, has been run by the South Bend YMCA since 1909 (dedicated 4 July 1909; the Eberhart memorial gift of $7,500 behind it; some forty miles from South Bend, on the Michiana Memory brochure) — the region's Y was already a going concern with a memorial camp by 1909, which bounds its founding without stating it. On 1 January 2020 the YMCA of Michiana and the YMCA of Southwest Michigan merged into the YMCA of Greater Michiana (2021 annual report: three facilities and one camp; 16,500 members and a $10 million budget at the merger); the downtown South Bend YMCA operates at the Leighton Memorial Healthplex, 111 W. Jefferson Boulevard. The organisation claims "over 140-year legacy of the Y in this region" (2024) — arithmetic that reaches the 1880s — but no carrier reached states a founding year or a first building, and none is printed: residue, settler the association's own archive.
Principal sources: YWCA North Central Indiana's Form 990 record and site (year of formation 1903); Michiana Memory / SJCPL (the Camp Eberhart brochure); the YMCA of Greater Michiana's merger and annual-report record; the organisation's 2024 announcement for the legacy claim at its strength.