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2010 — the grant announced 20 December 2010
The gift: The largest single documented gift attached to a Fort Wayne institution was not made by a Fort Wayne fortune. In December 2010 Lilly Endowment Inc. granted 35 million dollars to Manchester University to establish a college of pharmacy — and the college was sited in Fort Wayne, on the city's northeast side, where Manchester built an 82,000-square-foot facility at 10627 Diebold Road and seated its inaugural pharmacy class in the fall of 2012. The recipient university is headquartered in North Manchester, and this section prints the gift with that fact attached; the money's purpose, building and students are Fort Wayne's. Nothing else in the city's documented record — no bequest, no campaign, no conversion — matches 35 million dollars in a single grant.
What it built: The Manchester University College of Pharmacy (later the College of Pharmacy, Natural and Health Sciences), Fort Wayne's first doctoral program in pharmacy and the anchor of the medical-education cluster that has since grown around the Dupont Road corridor. Lilly Endowment, the Indianapolis foundation created by the Lilly family in 1937, is the largest private funder in Indiana philanthropy; its Fort Wayne pharmacy grant is the standard against which every other gift in this table measures itself.
Sources:
- Lilly Endowment's grant record and the 20 December 2010 announcement, as carried in Lilly Endowment's institutional history.
- Indianapolis Business Journal (30 June 2014) and Pharmacy Times — the Fort Wayne campus, its Diebold Road facility and its inaugural class.