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Business Development Corporation

To further economic development,principally within any and all counties located in north central indiana and southwest michigan.

$52k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2024
100%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 11
FY2022 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$6.7M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Business Development Corporation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving4$52k75%
FY20241$8k100%
FY202211$104kn/a
88% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Health$45kCommunity Improvement$40kEducation$15kCrime & Legal$10kFood & Nutrition$10kHuman Services$10kReligion$10kAnimals$9kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
South Bend Elkhart Regional Partnership Foundation$15,0001n/a
Indiana University Foundation$15,00010%
CDFI Friendly of South Bend Inc$15,00015%
Reins of Life Inc$10,00011%
Samaritan Family Health and Counseling Center Inc$10,00012%
Reta Inc$10,00011%
The Center for Growth & Independenc$10,0001n/a
Cultivate Culinary School and Catering Inc$10,00010%
The Casie Center Inc$10,00011%
Life Treatment Centers Inc$10,00010%
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All grantees of Business Development Corporation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
South Bend Elkhart Regional Partnership Foundation$15,0001n/a
Indiana University Foundation$15,00010%
CDFI Friendly of South Bend Inc$15,00015%
Reins of Life Inc$10,00011%
Samaritan Family Health and Counseling Center Inc$10,00012%
Reta Inc$10,00011%
The Center for Growth & Independenc$10,0001n/a
Cultivate Culinary School and Catering Inc$10,00010%
The Casie Center Inc$10,00011%
Life Treatment Centers Inc$10,00010%
Christian Methodist Episcopal Church$10,0001n/a
The Avenue Family Network Inc$10,00010%
Humane Society of St Joseph County$8,88311%
Maple City Health Care Center Inc$5,28810%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($14k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Business Development Corporation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIndiana University Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCDFI Friendly of South Bend Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetReins of Life Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSamaritan Family Health and Counseling Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetReta Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCultivate Culinary School and Catering Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Casie Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLife Treatment Centers Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Avenue Family Network Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHumane Society of St Joseph County: $8,883 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMaple City Health Care Center Inc: $5,288 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Pokagon Fund IncMI15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pokagon Fund Inc · Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc · Judd Leighton Foundation Inc · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc · University of Notre Dame du Lac · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Business Development Corporation

How much does Business Development Corporation give?
Business Development Corporation reported 4 grants totaling $51,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
What does Business Development Corporation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (28%), Community Improvement (25%), Education (9%).
Who are Business Development Corporation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: South Bend Elkhart Regional Partnership Foundation ($15k), Indiana University Foundation ($15k), CDFI Friendly of South Bend Inc ($15k).
Does Business Development Corporation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Business Development Corporation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pokagon Fund Inc, Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc, Judd Leighton Foundation Inc.
Where is Business Development Corporation based?
Business Development Corporation is based in IN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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