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 eight-figure gift, stands made to an institution seated in the Granger CDP in any record reached. Inside the CDP line, the largest documented giving course is a parish building campaign: the St. Pius X Parish Education Center, ground broken October 22, 2006 and dedicated August 24, 2008, a project the diocesan paper of record costed at about $10 million (58,000 square feet; the first newly built K–8 school building in the diocese since Vatican II) — a campaign figure and a project cost as Today's Catholic gives them, printed at exactly that strength, since the parish's own giving totals for the campaign are not published. The largest documented single monetary grant touching this ground's institutions is one step out, at county strength: the Lilly Endowment's $5 million grant of 2001 to the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County for the Early Years Count education initiative, dug whole in article 3 below.

Everything larger in the county's record belongs to institutions seated in other cities, and it is boundary-printed in articles 2 and 7, never absorbed: Notre Dame's $150 million Walsh gift (2025) is Notre Dame's; the Kroc bequest's $70 million South Bend center grant is South Bend's. The definitive form of this row's answer — a certified largest, produced from every recipient's Form 990 contribution schedules read in series — cannot be built from open sources, because Indiana parishes file no 990 and PHM, a public corporation, reports gifts inside board minutes rather than a published register. NAMED GAP (residual): the certified largest gift to a CDP-seated recipient; settlers: the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County's grants database read for Granger-addressed grantees; PHM board minutes (gift acceptances); the St. Pius X and Granger Community Church campaign records; Beacon Health Foundation's donor record for the Main Street campus. What the open record establishes, it establishes plainly: on this ground, the largest giving is a parish that built itself a school, and a county foundation's education grant — and the era ladder of article 5 is built on exactly those anchors.

Sources:

1. Today's Catholic
2. Community Foundation of St. Joseph County, Early Years Count Education Initiative page (cfsjc.org, read November 2026) — "In 2001, the Community Foundation received $5 million from the Lilly Endowment."
3. Search record of this run: sweeps for a largest/record gift to Granger-seated recipients (PHM, the parishes, the library district, Beacon's Granger campus) — no gift above the parish-campaign scale returned.