The Franciscan Seat: Franciscan Alliance and Its Foundation

Corporate seat at 1515 West Dragoon Trail; foundation established 2012 on the system's own account

Seat: The largest corporation in the Mishawaka register is a health system's home office. Franciscan Alliance, Inc. (EIN 35-1330472), the parent of the Franciscan health system, reports assets of $6,328,976,367 and revenue of $3,781,825,597 on its most recent return in the register (tax period ending December 2024) — roughly two-thirds of everything the Mishawaka register reports, in a single corporation. Its address is 1515 West Dragoon Trail, the motherhouse campus of the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration: the sisters' Mishawaka story stands in the religion file, the system's hospitals in the hospitals file, and the corporation's own postings state the seat plainly — its headquarters listings read "Headquarters, Mishawaka, Indiana." The Alliance is the Mishawaka seat of a system whose care is delivered across Indiana and Illinois; the register records the seat, and this section records the seat at its full size without absorbing the system.

The system's foundation is Mishawaka-seated at the same address. Franciscan Health Foundation, Inc. (EIN 35-1955283) reports assets of $81,035,493 and revenue of $11,097,847 (tax period ending December 2024). Its purpose, in its own Form 990's words, is that it "raises, invests, and disburses contributions to support the programs and services of Franciscan Alliance, Inc.," and the system's own Northern Indiana account describes it as "a not-for-profit, philanthropic organization established in 2012 for the purpose of raising funds in support of the programs and services provided by Franciscan Health." The two dates stand unreconciled, in the discipline of this section: the foundation's published account dates its establishment to 2012, while the corporation's federal ruling dates to September 1995 — the register's corporation is older than the foundation's account of itself, and no predecessor record was pulled to explain the difference. What the filings establish is the structure: a system foundation holding $81 million at the system's Mishawaka home office, raising for the whole system's programs while its Northern Indiana arm names the local purpose.

Sources:

1. IRS Business Master File, Indiana extract, November 2026: Franciscan Alliance Inc and Franciscan Health Foundation Inc rows — EINs, tax periods, assets, revenue, ruling month (September 1995 for the foundation).
2. Franciscan Health (fran.care), Northern Indiana foundation account: "established in 2012" and the Northern Indiana purpose, as published November 2026; the foundation's Form 990 mission statement as compiled from its filings.
3. Franciscan Alliance's own headquarters postings, "Headquarters, Mishawaka, Indiana," 1515 W. Dragoon Trail.