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1996 TO THE PRESENT · TWO VEHICLES, KEPT SEPARATE AS THE RECORD KEEPS THEM
The schools' money on this ground runs in two vehicles, and this article keeps them separate because they are separate corporations with separate fields. The first is the district's own: the Penn-Harris-Madison Education Foundation, Inc. — PHMEF, EIN 35-1996785 in its filed returns, addressed on Bittersweet Road in Mishawaka at the corporation's seat. It was established in 1996 as an independent, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organisation dedicated to supporting the educational mission of the Penn-Harris-Madison schools — the fifteen schools, seven of them on Granger ground or serving it whole, whose course is this build's Schools section. It has no predecessor body in the record reached: the Public-Education-Foundation-to-Education-Alliance succession the checklist tests for is the Fort Wayne form, and the test here is negative at that form — PHM's foundation begins in 1996 as a single founding, and no earlier district foundation or later alliance renaming appears in the Foundation's own published history, its timeline programme of 2016, or its filed returns. Its course is a grants course: by its own 2017 account it had distributed more than $520,000 in innovative teaching grants since inception, awarding classroom grants twice a year, fall and spring, with $141,643 in grants, scholarships and other awards in the 2017–18 fiscal year alone; its scholarship line runs from the Howard and Ruth Hensler scholarships of its first years through named funds carried in its reports, and its endowment is fed by the naming-rights campaign under which, among others, Dr. and Mrs. Jerry Thacker gave $25,000 in 2021 (part of $192,500 over fifteen years) and Lionshead Specialty Tire and Wheel $50,000 in 2023, eighty percent of naming gifts passing to the endowment. It stands in November 2026 as the standing alternative-income arm of the school corporation — the vehicle through which this ground's school philanthropy is corporately done. The second vehicle is the county's own scholarship endowment, and it is not the district's: the Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship Program, funded by Lilly Endowment Inc. of Indianapolis, administered statewide since 1997 by Independent Colleges of Indiana, and administered in this county by the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County. It awards full-tuition scholarships to Indiana colleges to county students — four scholars in the class announced for 2024, chosen from more than 120 applications from twelve county schools, Penn High School's students among the county's applicants in the programme's ordinary course — and it has run, cohort by cohort, since the programme's first Indiana classes of the late 1990s. Around those two vehicles the ground's smaller scholarship corporations stand in the register at their own size: the Business Association's scholarships of the preceding article, and the named family scholarship foundations of the register — 28Twelve Foundation Ltd among them — each a separate small endowment, none of them the county's. The succession stated once: no district foundation before 1996; PHMEF from 1996; the county Lilly scholarship running beside it from 1997 as the county endowment's scholarship face.
Sources: P-H-M Education Foundation, its own About record and Annual Report 2017–18, read November 2026 (the 1996 establishment as an independent 501(c)(3); the $520,000 grants total; the $141,643 year; the funding sources). P-H-M Education Foundation, Form 990-EZ for 2009–10 (EIN 35-1996785; the Bittersweet Road address; grants and scholarships paid). Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation, releases of December 14, 2021 and April 24, 2023 (the Thacker and Lionshead naming gifts; the eighty-percent endowment rule). Community Foundation of St. Joseph County, 2024 Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship announcement (four scholars; more than 120 applications from twelve schools; the programme's administration since 1997 by Independent Colleges of Indiana with Lilly Endowment funding).