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Downtown South Bend Inc

Downtown south bend, inc. Is committed to the advancement and vitality of downtown through offering business resources, support, initiatives, and incentives; presenting marketing and events to attract visitors; and highlighting downtown as the center for arts, dining, and entertainment.

$137k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Itemized grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$127k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$12,900
Largest grant, FY2024
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 11
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$516k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Downtown South Bend Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $163k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’21’22’23
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving9$127k67%
FY202310$163k100%
FY202211$158k91%
FY20212$29k100%
FY20192$18k100%
FY20183$41k100%
FY20171$15kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Community Improvement$194kHousing & Shelter$148kArts & Culture$54kRecreation & Sports$46kFood & Nutrition$42kEnvironment$20kCivil Rights$20kReligion$20kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Barnaby's Pizza$37,3802n/a
Aloft South Bend$36,1851n/a
Cafe Navarre$25,4122n/a
Ziker Cleaners$20,0001n/a
Hibberd Development LLC$20,0001n/a
Lasalle Properties LLC$20,0001n/a
Northern Indiana Historical Society Inc$20,00011%
Central Automotive$20,0001n/a
South Bend City Church Inc$20,0001n/a
227 Vermillion LLC$20,0001n/a
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All grantees of Downtown South Bend Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Barnaby's Pizza$37,3802n/a
Aloft South Bend$36,1851n/a
Cafe Navarre$25,4122n/a
Ziker Cleaners$20,0001n/a
Hibberd Development LLC$20,0001n/a
Lasalle Properties LLC$20,0001n/a
Northern Indiana Historical Society Inc$20,00011%
Central Automotive$20,0001n/a
South Bend City Church Inc$20,0001n/a
227 Vermillion LLC$20,0001n/a
Woochi Japanese Fusion & Bar$20,0001n/a
AIDS Ministries-Aids Assist of North Indiana Inc$20,00011%
Michigan Street Shops LLC$20,0001n/a
Cinco 5 International$20,0001n/a
Studebaker Mansion$20,0001n/a
The General Deli LLC$19,8761n/a
Kris Priemer$19,4542n/a
South Bend Civic Theatre Inc$15,50021%
Xanatek$15,0001n/a
Macri's Bakery$14,5381n/a
Stockroom East (Codex Refurb Llc)$12,9001n/a
JMP Entertainment LLC$11,3381n/a
Herstoric Properties$10,0001n/a
Access Imprinted Sportswear$9,3731n/a
The Cellar Wine Bar & Kitchen$9,1501n/a
Peggs Restaurant LLC$9,1061n/a
Ironhand Vineyard$8,5811n/a
TEAME Enterprises Inc$8,0001n/a
St Vincent Depaul Society of North Central Indiana Inc$7,92011%
J2 Marketing$7,5901n/a
Lww Properties LLC$7,1391n/a
Michiana Public Broadcasting Corporation$6,92510%
The Early Bird Eatery$5,0281n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($15k), not named here.

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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.

Community Foundation of St Joseph County IncIN15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc · Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc · University of Notre Dame du Lac · Renaissance Charitable 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 Downtown South Bend Inc

How much does Downtown South Bend Inc give?
Downtown South Bend Inc reported 9 itemized grants totaling $126,893, out of $136,536 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Downtown South Bend Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (35%), Housing & Shelter (27%), Arts & Culture (10%).
Who are Downtown South Bend Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Barnaby's Pizza ($37k), Aloft South Bend ($36k), Cafe Navarre ($25k).
Does Downtown South Bend Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Downtown South Bend Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc, Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc, University of Notre Dame du Lac.
Where is Downtown South Bend Inc based?
Downtown South Bend Inc 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 34 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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