The community foundation as the pooled vehicle: the county's endowment house, and the Granger-named-fund test run against its public record

1992–November 2026 · South Bend-seated, county-wide by charter

The vehicle: The Community Foundation of St. Joseph County Inc., seated at 305 South Michigan Street, South Bend, is the pooled vehicle of the register's pattern: on its own published account, "since 1992, the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County has been connecting people who care with causes that matter" — a nonprofit philanthropic endowment that receives gifts, invests them forever, and grants the earnings to local charities across arts and culture, health and human services, youth and education, community development, and parks and environment. (A commercial directory gives its founding as 1991; the foundation's own materials say 1992, and the foundation's date governs here with the directory's printed as the standing minor conflict.) Its scale, from the published record: more than $255 million in assets and approximately $10 million in grants a year in a recent published profile, through over 80 funds in one account and a wider fund roster in others; its best-known single program is the Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship for the county, running since the program's 1997–98 inception.

The Granger test: Run against the foundation's public record for a Granger-named fund — a fund carrying the Granger name, a Granger donor's named endowment, a Granger-restricted grant line — the test returns no published instance in the sources reached: the foundation's published fund and scholarship accounts are county-wide in form, and its named funds reached carry donors' and purposes' names, not this place's. The verdict prints exactly so: Granger money certainly pools there — the county's suburb of this size does not stand outside its county's endowment — but no Granger-named fund is published, and the leg does not infer one. The settler for a definitive fund-by-fund answer is the foundation's own fund register and annual reports read whole, beyond the published summaries reached here.

Sources:

1. Community Foundation of St. Joseph County, published accounts (cfsjc.org) — "since 1992"; the endowment mechanism; the Lilly Endowment Community Scholars program and its county administration.
2. Inside Philanthropy, foundation profile (updated July 2024) — established 1992; over 80 funds; about $10 million in annual grants; more than $255 million in assets. Prospeo directory — founded 1991 (conflict printed in the entry).
3. Settler named for the fund-level test: the foundation's fund register and annual reports read whole.