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The county's federation charity claims a 1914 root and $122 million given since — and the tidy succession story told about it belongs to Missouri. What verifies for the Indiana organisation: the United Way of St. Joseph County (uwsjc.org) carries, in its profile carriers, the claim of "more than $122 million contributed since 1914" and a 1914 founding date; its IRS exempt status dates to 06/1963 (a ruling date, per this build's discipline, not a founding); EIN 35-1063368; recent figures at profile strength — revenue about $3.4 million, assets about $12.7 million, about 20 employees (Cause IQ).News-Times' "Federation for Social Service" drive of December 1916 (the benevolent-era article) — consistent with a federation root in the 1910s, printed beside the claim without merging: the documents do not say the two are the same body. The trap is printed to be refused: the succession "St. Joseph Federation for Charity and Philanthropy (1916) → Community Chest (1933) → United Fund (1957)" is the history of the United Way of Greater St. Joseph, Missouri (stjosephunitedway.org) — a same-named county seat in another state, and no part of it is imported here. The Indiana succession (charity organisation → community chest → united fund → United Way) stands unverified link by link; settler: the organisation's own archive and the Tribune file.
Principal sources: the organisation's profile carriers (Prospeo's uwsjc.org profile; Cause IQ; the exempt register) at their strengths; South Bend News-Times, 24 December 1916; stjosephunitedway.org, read only to refuse its succession by state.