The Hospital Foundation: Foundation of Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center

Established 1985 in South Bend, on its own filings; seat now 5215 Holy Cross Parkway

Lead: The second health system's foundation tells its own origin plainly: the Foundation of Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center, Inc. (EIN 35-1654543) was "Established in 1985 in South Bend, Indiana," in the words its Form 990 carries — founded when the hospital stood in South Bend, and seated today at 5215 Holy Cross Parkway in Mishawaka, where the system's home office stands. It also files under the system's modern name, as DBA Saint Joseph Health System in state contracts. The seat followed the system across the river; the foundation's date stayed where the hospital was. The three hospital corporations of the system stand in the register at the same Parkway address beside it — Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center Inc (assets $979,952,528, revenue $144,555,811), the South Bend Campus corporation (assets $1,547,468,814, revenue $425,927,156), and the Plymouth Campus corporation (assets $371,538,269, revenue $56,537,091), all at tax period ending June 2026 — the hospitals file owns those institutions; this section records only that their corporate seat is Mishawaka's.

The foundation's own filings describe its work as supporting the system through philanthropy — nursing education, hospital departments, a mobile medical unit, pediatric specialty clinics, community health centers, and the Woman's Task Force among the named purposes. Its scale stands at assets of $25,904,187 and revenue of $1,849,995 on its most recent register return (tax period ending June 2026), and its grantmaking, from its own returns as compiled, runs at hospital-foundation size: grants paid of $2,213,541 in its fiscal 2025, $970,749 in fiscal 2024, and $1,418,802 in fiscal 2023, on contributions of $1,005,559 in fiscal 2025; a compilation of its filings across fiscal 2017–2023 puts its total granting in those years at $16.4 million. The pattern the three years print is a foundation whose giving is set by its campaigns, not by an endowment's rhythm — a capital instrument of the hospital system, seated where the system sits.

Sources:

1. The Foundation's Form 990 mission and establishment statement ("Established in 1985 in South Bend, Indiana"), fiscal 2025, as compiled from its filings; grants paid fiscal 2023–2025 and contributions fiscal 2025 from the same compilations.
2. IRS Business Master File, Indiana extract, November 2026: the Foundation's row (EIN 35-1654543) and the three hospital corporations' rows, tax period 202506.
3. State contract records carrying the Foundation as "DBA Saint Joseph Health System"; GrantWatch's compilation of the Foundation's filings, fiscal 2017–2023 total giving.