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Federal ruling October 2009; the company's own account dates the foundation's founding to 2011; seat at 5201 Grape Road
Lead: The dealer family's foundation files in the register as Leep Foundation Inc (EIN 26-4818874), seated at 5201 Grape Road — the Gurley Leep group's own headquarters address, the dealership file's ground. It works publicly as the Leep Automotive Family Foundation. Its two dates print unreconciled: the corporation's federal ruling dates to October 2009, while the company's own giving report states "Since its founding in 2011, the Leep Automotive Family Foundation has awarded $5,555,084 in grants." Its most recent register return reports assets of $22,043,361. Its Form 990-PF, as compiled, shows the grant pattern: 19 grants in the compiled year, about $909,700 in total giving, a median grant of $25,000, general operating support its stated mode — $50,000 to Hannah's House and $20,000 to the Boys & Girls Club of St. Joseph County among the itemized grants, and the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County among its grantees.
The company's own annual giving report is the fuller instrument, and it prints the corporate-giving structure whole. The Gurley Leep Automotive Family's philanthropy runs in three channels, in its own account: the foundation's grants; a percentage of company revenue dedicated to team members and communities; and the Changing Lives Scholarship for team members' dependents. In 2024 the three channels totaled $5,771,987 in charitable giving, of which the foundation's grant funding was $1,094,744 and direct corporate giving $1,733,750. The foundation's documented Mishawaka course is a partnership record: its support of Hannah's House runs, in the report's words, "nearly three decades," and in 2024 it brought Hannah's House and Habitat for Humanity of St. Joseph County together — the foundation funding, Habitat building, the city donating the land — for the first Homes of Hope transitional house, which the charities file records as built and dedicated. Announced and accomplished are both in the record here, and both print: the 2024 report's groundbreaking, and the house standing. In 2026 the foundation's grants reached the valley's schoolchildren directly, funding the Potawatomi Zoo's field-trip scholarships for some 2,000 students, as the zoo and the company announced — a Mishawaka foundation's money buying South Bend zoo days, the valley's charitable geography in one grant.
Sources:
- Gurley Leep Automotive Family, Annual Giving Report 2024 (gurleyleep.com): the three channels, the 2024 totals ($5,771,987; foundation grants $1,094,744; corporate giving $1,733,750), "founding in 2011," $5,555,084 awarded since, the Hannah's House and Homes of Hope account.
- IRS Business Master File, Indiana extract, November 2026: Leep Foundation Inc (EIN 26-4818874, ruling October 2009, 5201 Grape Road, assets $22,043,361); its Form 990-PF as compiled (TheShareWay/Cause IQ): 19 grants, giving, median, itemized grantees.
- Michiana Business News, 8 May 2026: the Leep foundation's Potawatomi Zoo educational-assistance grants.