The modern fortunes, under the living-persons rule: roles, published gifts and filings only

As of November 2026 · the rule stated, and the reason for it

The rule, and why: No estimate of any living person's net worth appears in this section, and the leg says why, as the register directs: a living resident's wealth is not a published record in the way an estate or a filing is — it is a private account that no source this build may use has opened, and any figure printed for it would be a guess wearing the dress of research. What prints instead is what the public record itself prints: company roles, published gifts, and foundation filings. Under that rule the modern names stand as follows.

The names at rule strength: Mike Ganus of Granger built the Ganus Family Loft into what the international pigeon press calls the leading breeding loft for one-loft racing in the world, winner of the South African Million Dollar Pigeon Race final of January 2016 with a bird bred on this ground (the People leg, from PIPA's profiles) — a world-leading business carried by role and result; no figure for the loft's value or its owner's wealth was published in the sources reached, and none is printed. The Eckrich name stands on this ground as developers in the Businesses and People records — carried by role. The Rogers family stands in the business record by role. In each case the published record gives the work, the firm and the result, and stops there; so does this section. The one modern fortune-figure that does print for this ground is not a person's: it is the $77.5 million Microsoft paid for the farm ground (Businesses leg, the Tribune's sequence) — a transaction price, published as such, belonging to the seller institution's land and not to any resident's account.

The gifts that are published: Where a Granger resident's giving has entered a public record, it prints at that record's size — the Parseghian foundation's more than $45 million raised (Notre Dame's figure, in the philanthropy article above; the founder is dead, and the figure is a foundation's, not an estate's), and the Hannah & Friends record in the Charities section, whose founders' gift was land and a neighborhood for adults with special needs on Hollyhock Road, filed on the foundation's Form 990. No other published gift by a living Granger resident was reached at a size the rule allows to print, and the absence is stated rather than filled.

Sources:

1. People leg (banked) — Mike Ganus and the Ganus Family Loft, from PIPA (Pigeon Paradise) profiles and the loft's record card; the Eckrich and Rogers entries by role.
2. Businesses leg (banked) — the Microsoft purchase figure and its publisher.
3. University of Notre Dame news release, 2 August 2017 — the Parseghian foundation figure.
4. Hannah and Friends Inc., IRS Form 990 (tax year 2021) — formation 2003, 51250 Hollyhock Road; carried in the Charities addendum.