Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in South Bend, Indiana

66
foundations with a South Bend address
$60.9M
grants paid, FY2024–FY2025
11
say they accept unsolicited
$5,467
median grant

Grantlas lists 66 foundations that gave a South Bend, Indiana address on their tax filing — 58 private foundations and 8 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2024–FY2025. Together they paid out $60.9 million in grants in their latest filing year, and 11 of them (17%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a South Bend foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.

Top 25 of 66 foundations

Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing, with the ones that accept unsolicited requests first, then the ones whose filing doesn’t say.

Foundations in South Bend, Indiana
Judd Leighton Foundation IncAccepts$50,000$6.7M$160–$1MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Edward & Irma Hunter FoundationAccepts$70,000$716,500$20,000–$200,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Wood Foundation IncAccepts$80,000$675,000$10,000–$250,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Shein Charitable TrustAccepts$20,000$337,628$2,000–$104,500FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Everwise Foundation IncAccepts$2,500$244,311$500–$25,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Plym FoundationAccepts$4,250$167,500$1,000–$25,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Huff Animal Protection TrustAccepts$28,500$144,000$4,000–$35,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Georgina Joshi Foundation IncAccepts$5,553$56,553$1,000–$50,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Radiology Inc FoundationAccepts$500$24,900$200–$2,500FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Charles and Edith Weems Scholarship Fund (clAccepts$23,593$23,593—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Cserpes Memorial Scholarship XXX-XX-XxxxAccepts$1,000$9,800$450–$2,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Community Foundation of St Joseph County IncCommunity foundationNot stated$25,000Over $5k only$26.7M$6,150–$12.3MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
United Way of St Joseph County IncFederationNot stated$15,273Over $5k only$350,000$5,076–$92,748FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Jon and Sonja Laidig Foundation IncGrantmaking charityNot stated$7,500Over $5k only$247,457$7,500–$100,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
South Bend Rotary Charitable Foundation IncFederationNot stated$10,500Over $5k only$106,204$5,900–$15,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Cressy Foundation IncGrantmaking charityNot stated$22,500Over $5k only$78,500$10,000–$35,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Downtown South Bend Inc FoundationPublic foundationNot stated$48,938Over $5k only$49,100$48,776–$49,100FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Woodie's Supermarket Scholarship TrustGrantmaking charityNot stated—Over $5k only$27,500—FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Woodie's Supermarket Scholarship TrustGrantmaking charityNot stated—Over $5k only$23,250—FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Asante Foundation IncInvitation only$110,000$11.8M$15,000–$1.3MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Drexel FundInvitation only$56,000$3.7M$3,500–$275,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Valinhos Foundation IncInvitation only$101,000$3.3M$7,916–$1.1MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
1st Source Bank Foundation Inc XXX-XX-XxxxInvitation only$10,000$2.2M$45–$200,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Cdm Foundation IncInvitation only$2,000$317,000$500–$23,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Matthew 2818-20 Charitable FoundationInvitation only$3,987$296,931$1,845–$34,826FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from each funder’s grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report. Community foundations and other charities list only grants over $5,000, so their figures run high.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.

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Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2024–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.