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Major Donations — Giving at This Ground's True Size
The largest gift, established at the strength the record allows
ROW 83-1 · DUG, WITH THE DEFINITIVE SWEEP NAMED · TO NOVEMBER 2026
The sweep was run — across the Community Foundation's record, the recipients' published records, and the foundation and press record the open web returns — and its answer is a shape, not a trophy: no nine-figure gift, and no…
The nine-figure / eight-figure cluster: a printed negative, with its boundary
ROW 83-2 · TESTED NEGATIVE FOR CDP-SEATED RECIPIENTS · NOVEMBER 2026
The cluster exists in this county. It does not exist on this ground: swept by amount and recipient, the nine- and eight-figure gifts of St. Joseph County's record seat, every one of them, at institutions in South Bend or at Notre…
The Lilly Endowment line, whole
ROW 83-3 · DUG · 1997–2026
The Lilly Endowment's course to this ground runs through two channels, and both are printed entire: the first is a single large grant. In 2000 the Lilly Endowment offered Indiana's community foundations the chance to compete for…
The repeat-giver course: two giving lives at the boundary, and the local pattern
ROW 83-4 · DUG · THE KROC AND WALSH COURSES, 1986–2025
The donor who gave twice across decades exists twice in this county's record — and both lives run through the same university, at the CDP's western horizon: Joan B. Kroc gave to Notre Dame across seventeen years and three…
The era ladder: the gifts each era called the largest
ROW 83-5 · SYNTHESIS, BUILT FROM THIS RUN'S DIGS · 1856–2026
Sequenced, the ladder is the finding — each era's "largest" is an order of magnitude from the next era's, and the rungs change kind as they climb:
Higher-Education Giving, by Institution
ROW 83-7 · DUG AT BOUNDARY SIZE · NO COLLEGE IS SEATED IN THE CDP
The threshold fact is the Schools section's tested negative, carried here as this article's frame: no college or university is seated inside the Granger CDP (EXPAND-SCHOOLS-NOTE, intact note — the roster test whole).…
Health giving: no subscription hospital, one steady tournament of a fundraiser
ROW 83-8 · DUG · THE NEGATIVES AND THE COURSE, WHOLE
Health giving on this ground begins with two negatives, printed first because they are the frame: What the ground does have is smaller and, in one case, remarkably durable.
The community foundation, whole
ROW 83-9 · DUG, WITH THE FOUNDING GIFT AS A NAMED GAP · 1992–2026
The Community Foundation of St. Joseph County is this county's philanthropic bank, and its whole course, at the strength its own record supports, is this: the foundation dates itself, in the boilerplate of its own releases…
The deeds in kind, valued as the record values them
ROW 83-10 · DUG AT RECORD STRENGTH · VALUATIONS NAMED AS A GAP
This ground's in-kind record is three deeds, and the record values none of them in money: Zook's five acres (Fir Road, 1954) — the St. Pius X site, given by a developer who was simultaneously platting 270 homes in the parish…
The honest thin spots: the institutions no patron built
ROW 83-11 · SYNTHESIS FROM THE BANKED BOND AND TAX RECORD · BUILT FROM THIS RUN'S SOURCES
The donations record of this ground is thin because its institutions were not given — they were taxed and bonded into being, and the synthesis prints the proof institution by institution: The schools. Penn-Harris-Madison is a…
The ranked table close
ROW 83-12 · EVERY DOCUMENTED MAJOR GIFT FROM THIS RUN'S DIGS · UNPUBLISHED AMOUNTS PRINTED AS UNPUBLISHED
The table ranks what this run dug, at the boundary discipline of the leg: gifts to CDP-seated recipients print in the main rank; the county-frame gifts that serve this ground print below the line, marked, because a ranked table…
Major Donations: Open Questions
Row 83-1, the largest gift — DUG at record strength (parish campaign ~$10M project; Lilly $5M county grant), with a NAMED GAP for the certified largest (settlers named in article 1). Row 83-2, the nine-/eight-figure cluster …