The community foundation: the county's pooled vehicle, and the New Carlisle fund test

1991/92–2026 · THE FOUNDATION'S RECORD AS REACHED; THE FUND TEST OPEN

The pooled vehicle for this county is the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County — and its own founding year prints two ways. The foundation, seated in South Bend (EIN 23-7365930), is carried in the secondary record at a 1991 founding (its directory listings) and at an establishment in 1992 (the philanthropy press, updated July 2024); the two tellings print side by side, unmerged, the settler being the foundation's own charter record. Its present form is not in dispute: one of the county's largest grantmakers, granting on the order of $10 million a year from assets above $255 million, its endowed funds largely freed of administrative fees by the Leighton Endowment. For this section the operative test is narrower — whether a fund designated for New Carlisle stands in the foundation's fund register — and that test does not close in the sources this section reached: no New Carlisle–designated fund was found in the foundation's published material as read, which is a finding about the reading, not yet about the register. The residue stands named: the foundation's fund register itself, read fund by fund for the town's name, settles the line; until then the town's pooled giving prints as carried by the county vehicle without a town fund attested.

Sources:

1. Community Foundation of St. Joseph County — directory and philanthropy-press record as reached November 2026 (Inside Philanthropy, updated 18 July 2024: established 1992, ~$10M granted yearly, assets above $255M, the Leighton Endowment fee waiver; directory listings: founded 1991; EIN 23-7365930).
2. The fund test: the foundation's published material read November 2026 — no New Carlisle–designated fund returned; the register itself is the named settler.