The Laidig Foundations: Four Vehicles on Madison Road

Rulings 2004–2013; seats at the Laidig Systems campus addresses, Madison Road

Lead: One manufacturing family's giving is incorporated four times. The register carries, at two neighboring Madison Road addresses on the Laidig Systems campus, the Wyn and Carol Laidig Foundation Inc (EIN 20-5966178, ruling 2007, assets $23,088,181), the J&S Laidig Family Foundation Inc (EIN 27-3191498, ruling 2010, assets $7,397,507), the Daniel Laidig Family Foundation Inc (EIN 46-1511527, ruling 2013, assets $3,118,008), and the Laidig Family Foundation Inc (EIN 36-4545818, ruling 2004, assets $1,050,355) — together some $34.65 million of charitable capital in a single family's four corporations, the second fortune of the Mishawaka register. The firm behind the name, the silo-systems manufacturer, stands in the businesses file; the foundations' giving is this section's.

The senior foundation's record is the fullest. The Wyn and Carol Laidig Foundation's Form 990-PF, as compiled, shows 17 grants and about $1.2 million in giving, a median grant of $60,000 — larger, fewer gifts than the dealer foundation's pattern: $265,600 to Compassion International among the itemized grants, $100,000 to the Daniel Laidig Family Foundation (the family's foundations granting to each other, as the filings show), and $5,000 to Grissom Middle School in the Penn district. Its own documented program is distinctive: the foundation's Holy-Land Study Grant, its guidelines revised August 2007 and published from the Laidig site, offers up to $2,000 toward Biblically-oriented study in the Holy Land — awarded, in its own terms, upon memorization of the Sermon on the Mount, chapter by chapter — with eligibility running first to the family's Bremen congregation, then to Bethel College students and staff, then to the Bremen–Mishawaka church community. A grant program with a memorization condition is the family's faith printed as an instrument. In 2025 the foundation's grants, as compiled from its filings, included $327,401 to the Mishawaka Parks Foundation — the manufacturing family's money entering the city's parks campaign, as the parks article below records. The junior foundations grant at their scale in the same pattern: the J&S foundation's compiled giving is $424,600 and the Laidig Family Foundation's $216,550, each to exempt organizations in the family's orbit.

Sources:

1. IRS Business Master File, Indiana extract, November 2026: the four Laidig rows — EINs, ruling months, Madison Road addresses, assets.
2. The Wyn & Carol Laidig Foundation's own Holy-Land Study Grant guidelines and application (foundation.laidig.com, revision August 2007): the program, the memorization condition, the eligibility order.
3. The foundations' Forms 990-PF as compiled (TheShareWay, Instrumentl, Zeffy grant finder): grant counts, totals, medians, itemized grantees, and the 2025 grant to the Mishawaka Parks Foundation.