The Hospice Foundation: A Supporting Foundation Larger Than Its Charity

Established 2007 on its own account; federal ruling February 2016; seat at 501 Comfort Place

Lead: The hospice's course — founded 1978, grown into the valley's end-of-life institution — stands in the charities file. Its foundation's structure stands here. The Foundation for the Center for Hospice and Palliative Care, Inc. (EIN 30-0433147), known in its own materials as the Hospice Foundation, is a supporting organization of the Center for Hospice Care, seated at the same 501 Comfort Place address. Its own published description reads: "Established in 2007, the Hospice Foundation (HF) is a supporting foundation of Center for Hospice Care (CHC) which was established in 1978." The dates print at their strengths: the foundation's account dates itself to 2007, while the corporation's federal ruling dates to February 2016 — nine years between the establishment the foundation claims and the ruling the register carries, unreconciled in the record reached.

What is not in doubt is the structure's weight. On the most recent returns in the register (tax periods ending December 2025), the foundation reports assets of $64,300,213 and revenue of $5,965,968 — against the Center's own $57,794,512 in assets and $19,764,926 in revenue. The supporting foundation is larger, on assets, than the operating charity it supports: the endowment arm outweighs the care arm's balance sheet, which is the structure doing what it was built to do — hold the community's accumulated giving against the hospice's future rather than its present. The foundation's campaigns enter the other foundations' records too: the Schurz Communications Foundation's published recipient list names the "Hospice Foundation: Crossroads Campaign" among its grants, a Mishawaka-seated foundation funding another across the same register.

Sources:

1. IRS Business Master File, Indiana extract, November 2026: The Foundation for the Center for Hospice and Palliative Care Inc (EIN 30-0433147, supporting-organization foundation code, ruling February 2016) and Center for Hospice and Palliative Care Inc (EIN 31-0952866, ruling May 1979), tax periods 202512.
2. The Hospice Foundation's own description (foundationforhospice.org and its directory echoes): "Established in 2007… a supporting foundation of Center for Hospice Care."
3. Schurz Communications (schurz.com), Social page: recent grant recipients, incl. "Hospice Foundation: Crossroads Campaign."