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The Junior League of South Bend Inc

The junior league of south bend, inc.

$31k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$35kFood & Nutrition$35kArts & Culture$20kHealth$20kEducation$17kHousing & Shelter$10kRecreation & Sports$10kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $26,116, the rows itemized in this filing. The $31,116 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROBINSON LEARNING CENTER$10,000
REINS OF LIFE$10,000
OTHERS$6,116
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ST JOSEPH COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%ROBINSON LEARNING CENTER: $10k → 13%ST PAUL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $9k → 13%UNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY: $25k → 13%United Way of St Joseph County Inc: $17k → 13%UNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY: $10k → 13%South Bend Community School Corporation: $10k → 13%Center for the Homeless: $10k → 13%YWCA NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA: $10k → 13%Cultivate Culinary School and Catering Inc: $15k → 13%REINS OF LIFE: $10k → 13%Unity Gardens: $11k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
St Joseph Care Center

To help residents live to their fullest potential, recognizing the changing needs of each person.

Health
2
St Joseph Residence Inc

St. joseph residence, a skilled nursing home, and marian heights apartments, a residential apartment facility, and trinity terrace & monarch meadows, a community-based residential facility sponsored by catholic health international. we…

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3
St Joseph Housing Initiative

As a faith-based organization, our mission is to create vibrant communities through affordable quality housing where low and moderate income families can thrive, prosper and build wealth.

Housing & Shelter
4
St Joseph Infant and Maternity Home

With a 150+ year history, Saint Joe's is a place where people with developmental disabilities and complex support needs find connection, dignity and joy. Our community is built on compassion and possibility where every person is seen,…

Human Services
5
The Legacy At St Josephs Home

Our mission is to offer an enriched lifestyle to seniors by providing 5-star quality care for those lives are entrusted to us.

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6
Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center Inc

We, saint joseph regional medical center (sjrmc) and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.sjrmc is a member of trinity health.

Health
7
Living Community of St Joseph

We are a catholic, faith-based organization entrusted with advancing the life-enhancing senior care ministry of the benedictine sisters of duluth, minnesota. we witness to god's love by creating inclusive communities, supporting those we…

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8
Saint John's Communities Inc

Our mission is to enrich the lives of older adults through gracious retirement living, spiritual growth, cultural and educational opportunities and health care services.

Human Services
9
St Johns Community Center

to provide food and shelter for the homeless of Detroit

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10
Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc

To improve the quality of life for the citizens of St. Joseph County and their succeeding generations.

Philanthropy
11
Indiana University Health North Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
12
Elizabeth Seton Housing Corporation

Elizabeth Seton Housing Corporation provides housing for adults with developmental disabilities who have complex support needs in small residential home environments. The Corporation is operated in connection with the mission of St. Joseph…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of St Joseph County Inc; the most unlike its peers is University of Notre Dame du Lac. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OTHER: $15,217 · OtherOTHERSOUTH BEND COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORPORATION SCHOOL BUILDING: $10,000 · OtherSOUTH BEND COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORPORATION SCHOOL BUI…THE CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $10,000 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INCREINS OF LIFE INC: $10,000 · OtherREINS OF LIFE INCSt Joseph County Parks Foundation: $10,000 · OtherSt Joseph County Parks FoundationYWCA NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $9,963 · OtherYWCA NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA INCSAINT PAUL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $8,500 · OtherSAINT PAUL LUTHERAN CHURCHOTHERS: $6,116 · OtherOTHERSUNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC: $52,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY IN…CULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INC: $15,000 · EmploymentCULTIVATE…Unity Gardens: $11,200 · Food & NutritionUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $10,000 · EducationOAKLAWN PSYCHIATRIC CENTER INC: $9,900 · Health
Other$79,796Philanthropy$52,000Employment$15,000Food & Nutrition$11,200Education$10,000Health$9,900

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC: $52,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUnity Gardens: $11,200 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSt Joseph County Parks Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetYWCA NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $9,963 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOAKLAWN PSYCHIATRIC CENTER INC: $9,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Memorial Hospital of …Asante Foundation IncCommunity Foundation …United Way of St Jose…Judd Leighton Foundat…University of Notre D…American Electric Pow…Nisource Charitable F…Muessel Ellison Mem I…Clark Sa & Fp Mem Fd …Carroll F V Char Tr-M…The Pokagon Fund Inc
Memorial Hospital of South Bend IncIN20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Memorial Hospital of South Bend Inc · Asante Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc · United Way of St Joseph County Inc · Judd Leighton Foundation Inc · University of Notre Dame du Lac · American Electric Power Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Muessel Ellison Mem Irr Tua · Clark Sa & Fp Mem Fd Irr Tua · Carroll F V Char Tr-Main · The Pokagon Fund Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Junior League of South Bend Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Junior League of South Bend Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to The Junior League of South Bend Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Junior League of South Bend Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 13 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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