South Bend Car Donation In Indiana Benefits Make-A-Wish Kids
Wheels For Wishes turns vehicle donations across the South Bend area into wishes for children facing critical illness, with free towing and a process that takes only a few minutes. Call 1-855-278-9474 or use our online car donation form to get started today.
Donate A Car In South Bend
Wheels For Wishes is the car donation partner of Make-A-Wish Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. That means you can help your local chapter of Make-A-Wish just by donating an unwanted car to Wheels For Wishes! Not only is it an easy way to help local kids, it's also an incredibly simple way to part with a vehicle that's taking up space in your life.
Who Your Donation Helps
The best reason to donate a car to Wheels For Wishes is that the proceeds will go on to help your local Make-A-Wish Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana grant more wishes in your community. Northern Indiana is a great place to be a kid, but some children are held back from fun experiences by a critical illness.
Make-A-Wish is an organization that strives to help more of these children so they can have the chance to just be a kid again. Donating a car to Wheels For Wishes is an incredibly easy way to help your local Make-A-Wish reach their goals.
The giving adds up: Wheels For Wishes has donated more than $125 million to Make-A-Wish chapters since 2010, helping make 14,673 wishes possible. Every vehicle from a South Bend driveway adds to that impact and to the lives of kids who need a day of joy.
Tax Notes For South Bend Donors
A car donation can lead to a tax deduction, but you can claim this only if you itemize deductions. We can't give tax advice. Talk to your own tax advisor about what applies to you.
Two things are easy to say plainly: you never need an appraisal, and we send your tax form within 30 days of your vehicle selling. Your deduction counts for the year you donate, even if your vehicle sells the following year, so a vehicle handed over on December 28 that sells on January 15 still belongs to the year you donated it.
Vehicles We Accept
Car donation is also a great option for anyone who has an unwanted vehicle that they don't know what to do with. If you've been holding onto an RV, boats, motorcycles, trucks, an extra car, or other vehicles that you don't want anymore, Wheels For Wishes can help, and each one is considered on a case-by-case basis.
South Bend knows a thing or two about automobiles, having been home to the Studebaker company for decades. Trying to sell or trade in a car is stressful, and keeping an old vehicle just wastes space, so donate your unwanted vehicle to a great cause instead.
Free Towing Across Indiana
Residents of South Bend can enjoy free towing of their donated cars when they use Wheels For Wishes, free of charge. No matter where you live in Indiana, including Evansville, Fort Wayne, and Indianapolis, Wheels For Wishes offers free vehicle towing, and whether you're across town or a long drive from Fort Wayne, there's no transportation for you to arrange.
How To Donate In South Bend
All you have to do is follow a few easy steps to get started!
- Call 1-855-278-9474 to speak with a real person, or use our online car donation form. Both methods only take a minute of your time.
- Our team will contact you within 24 hours of the next business day to schedule pickup.
- Watch your mail for your tax-deductible receipt, and save it for next year's taxes.
- Enjoy the great feeling that comes with helping local kids in an easy and stress-free way!
The form asks for your name, whether the donation is in the name of a business or trust, your phone number, the pickup location, and the vehicle's year, make, model, and mileage, where an estimate is fine. Having your title helps the sale, and the VIN is required before pickup of most automobiles.
Adding your email address to the form is optional, but email helps us communicate with you, and an email is a handy backup if you miss our call. Pictures and proof of ownership may be required, since donations are accepted on a case-by-case basis.
Where Your Vehicle Goes
Your donated vehicle is sold at auction or recycled through our processing partners. At auction, buyers compete for it and the sale proceeds support Make-A-Wish, while vehicles that aren't a good fit for resale are recycled instead, so whether it's a spare truck or a tired sedan, buyers or recyclers turn it into support for local kids.
Questions? We're Here
Our donation representatives are here to help with any questions you may have about donating a vehicle. Take the opportunity to turn an unwanted vehicle into something special for a local kid, and thanks to you, a wish can come true. Get in touch with Wheels For Wishes today to see just how easy it is to donate a car to charity!
