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The licensed small game: Alongside the state lottery, Indiana law allows a second, smaller tier of legal chance: charity gaming, in which qualified organizations — bona fide religious, educational, charitable, fraternal, veterans', civic and similar tax-exempt bodies — may conduct bingo, raffles, charity game nights, festivals and the sale of pull tabs, punchboards and tip boards, each under license from the Indiana Gaming Commission under Indiana Code Title 4, Article 32.3 and 68 Indiana Administrative Code 21. Enforcement of the charity-gaming laws sat with the Department of Revenue from June 1992 before passing to the Commission; the framework was most recently amended by Senate Enrolled Act 108 (Public Law 111, signed April 30, 2025), which among other changes authorized electronic raffles and, from January 1, 2026, limits any one facility to hosting bingo or casino-game-night activity on no more than three days a week. In Mishawaka this tier is not an abstraction: it is the posts, the ethnic clubs, the parish and the school boosters — and unlike the parish-hall record in many cities, Mishawaka's enters the written record at size in the Commission's own published accounts, which this article prints whole.
The Commission's Mishawaka list, fiscal 2025: The Indiana Gaming Commission's Charity Gaming Division annual report for Fiscal Year 2025 (July 1, 2024–June 30, 2025), in its Annual Activity Licenses listing by county, carries eight organizations seated in Mishawaka, with the gross receipts each reported on its financial report. In the order and spelling of the Commission's listing: Bittersweet School PTO, $4,272.00; Broederenkring Club — the Belgian BK Club of the West End — $37,118.25; Edmondo DeAmicis Mutual Aid Society, Inc., $122,871.00; Fraternal Order of Eagles No. 2083, $395,598.00, the largest charitable-gaming operation the report seats in Mishawaka; Maria S S DiLoreto Italian Mutual Benefit Society, $39,342.00; Queen of Peace Church, $3,314.00; St. Joseph River Valley Fly Fishers, $4,994.00; and V.F.W. Post No. 360, $319,281.00, the second largest. The same annual report carries American Legion Post No. 161 of Mishawaka in its St. Joseph County annual-license run with $0.00 reported — an approved license on which the report shows no receipts, printed as the report gives it. The report's Single Activity Licenses listing adds three more Mishawaka names: Kappa Kappa Kappa – Beta Gamma, $2,942.75; Penn Band Booster Club, $1,282.29; and Penn Hockey Club, $28,680.00. Together the listings document the shape of the city's licensed small game in the present record: the veterans' posts and the fraternal and mutual-aid clubs — Eagles, VFW, the Belgian Broederenkring, the Italian DeAmicis and DiLoreto societies — carry the money; the parish, the school PTO and the boosters carry the raffle-and-bingo night at its small, occasional size; and a fly-fishers' club's $4,994 stands in the same state ledger as the Eagles' $395,598, each organization licensed, reported and audited on the same terms.
The hall and the discipline test: The city's standing commercial face of bingo is a hall, not a licensee: Rainbow Bingo Hall, 1705 East 12th Street, Mishawaka, advertises bingo on Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays — doors at 4 p.m., regular bingo at 7 p.m. on the weekday sessions, an hour earlier on Sundays — in its own published listing as of November 2026; charity bingo in Indiana is conducted by licensed organizations, and halls of this kind host licensed organizations' sessions, a distinction the Commission's framework keeps and this article keeps. No Mishawaka organization appears in the Gaming Commission's published charity-gaming disciplinary actions reached for this section, and no Mishawaka bingo raid, bingo prosecution or charity-gaming lawsuit appears in the press or regulatory record reached. The neighboring city's one discipline — South Bend's American Legion Post #303, a $5,000 settlement in 2013 — is South Bend's record, stands in the South Bend leg, and is not imported. Mishawaka's bingo record, as documented, is a licensing regime, eleven named licensees in one fiscal year, and no discipline at all, and it is printed at that size.
Sources:
- Indiana Gaming Commission, Charity Gaming Division, Fiscal Year 2025 annual report — Annual Activity Licenses by county and Single Activity Licenses listings, read entire for Mishawaka: the organizations and gross-receipts figures as stated, including American Legion Post No. 161 at $0.00.
- Indiana Code Title 4, Article 32.3 and 68 IAC 21; Indiana Gaming Commission charity-gaming pages as published in November 2026 — the qualified-organization framework, license types and the Commission's administration.
- Senate Enrolled Act 108 (2025), Public Law 111 — electronic raffles and the three-day facility limit from January 1, 2026, as carried in the South Bend companion leg.
- Indiana Department of Revenue, Charity Gaming Report (October 1, 2000) — the June 1992 assignment of charity-gaming enforcement.
- Rainbow Bingo Hall, own published listing (rainbowbingohall.com), as published in November 2026 — 1705 E. 12th Street, session days and times as stated.
- Indiana Gaming Commission published charity-gaming disciplinary actions, searched for this section — no Mishawaka entry in the record reached.