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The community foundations, carried whole: neither is seated here, both hold this town's lines

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Joseph County record (South Bend)

The pooled vehicle for this township's giving lives in two county seats at once — a school corporation in one county's foundation, a town in the other's — and both foundations can now be dated. Marshall County Community Foundation (Plymouth): a public charity whose own current record states that since 1991 its donors have built community assets valued at more than $50 million and returned over $30 million to Marshall County communities in grants and scholarships (its Form 990 tradition carries 1991 as its year of formation); it administers the Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship for its county and holds the LaVille lines this build already carries, the Hoosier Racing Tire Scholarship among them (lk-civ-nonprofits). Community Foundation of St. Joseph County (South Bend): established 1992 on its published profiles (one directory rendering carries a 1991 founding line; the variance prints whole, unmerged — its settler is the foundation's own corporate record), administering scores of funds and granting on the order of $10 million a year from its endowed, scholarship and designated funds; it is the county foundation of the town's own county, and the library rebuild's funding partnership already names it in this build (the SJCPL Main record). The founding-gift limb, tested on both: neither foundation's own published record as reached prices a single founding gift of the five-thousand-dollar pattern the checklist memorialises; both grew under Lilly Endowment's Giving Indiana Funds for Tomorrow (GIFT) initiative — the Endowment's programme to seat a community foundation in every Indiana county — which is the true founding engine for both, at programme strength. No foundation is seated in Lakeville itself: that sentence, which the banked leg could only imply, now stands printed with both vehicles' dates and forms beside it.

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Source: The community foundations, carried whole: neither is seated here, both hold this town's lines, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/lakeville/major-donations/community-foundations-carried-whole-neither-is-seated-here-both/