ST. Joseph County Auditor

ST. Joseph County Auditor is a U.S. county government entity headquartered in South Bend, Indiana that operates as a federal grant recipient, not a federal contractor. The Auditor acts as a prime grant recipient for three direct federal awards and as a sub-recipient on twenty-nine federal grant allocations routed through Indiana state agencies, with no federal contract activity and no contracting vehicle positions. The vendor structure shows two named entities — Saint Joseph County and ST Joseph County — both classified as U.S. local government counties under the parent Auditor office.

The prime grant portfolio centers on three awards: a $966,000 Federal Railroad Administration project grant awarded January 1, 2026 for environmental and preliminary engineering documentation to connect an Elkhart Western Railroad branch line to the Canadian Pacific South Bend Subdivision (ultimate completion March 31, 2027); a US Election Assistance Commission project grant awarded February 1, 2024 under the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), Public Law 107-252, Title V to recruit and deploy college students as nonpartisan poll workers and election administration assistants (completion January 31, 2026); and a National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases project grant awarded August 31, 2021 for community health workers supporting COVID response and resilient communities (completion March 24, 2025). The sub-recipient footprint comprises twenty-nine awards, the majority flowing through the Indiana Department of Education as grant allocations to St. Joseph County (with sub-awards dated across 2021–2026), supplemented by allocations from the Indiana Department of Health (workforce development and early learning center expansion, July 2022) and the Indiana Judiciary Courts (Court Appointed Special Advocate Program funding, October 2024 and October 2023). One sub-award from the Indiana Department of Homeland Security (December 2025) supported training; another (September 24, 2021) funded protective measures under a Motels4Now initiative. A single sub-award dated October 2024 supported the Shelby County Emergency Management Agency.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service, which accounts for 19 of 26 prime and sub awards (70% of award count by the source). The Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime and the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention each appear twice. Activity volume has been modest but recently elevated — four awards in 2022, one in 2023, six in 2024, six in 2025, and seven through June 2026. Only one award faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. The combined potential value across all thirty-seven awards (prime and sub) is stated as $18, with $9.1 million in combined dollars obligated; this suggests the potential-value field captures only a slice of the total grant allocations or reflects a data-capture limitation in the source. The Auditor's federal activity is purely grant-focused and locally administered — no federal contractor footprint, no IDV positions, and no commercial prime or sub contracting relationships.