The Business Community's Corporations: The Association and Discover New Carlisle

Row 3 — the town's two business-community corporations, at the strength the published IRS and directory record reaches, as of November 2026

Two bodies, two different paper trails: The New Carlisle Business and Community Association — the NCBCA, the directory keeper — and Discover New Carlisle, Inc., the town's promotion organization, established 2013, are the business community's two corporations, and the published record reaches them unequally. Discover New Carlisle stands in the register in its own name: DISCOVER NEW CARLISLE, c/o Kathy Aurenz, PO Box 723, classed by the Internal Revenue Service as a Charitable Organization (Economic Development), with an exempt-status ruling date of 10/2015. The two dates do not quarrel: established 2013 is the organization's own course as banked; October 2015 is the date the federal exemption was ruled. A promotion body that began work in 2013 and holds a charitable ruling as an economic-development organization from 2015 is the whole of what the published record gives, and this article prints no finances for it, because no Form 990 figures for it were read.

The NCBCA's trail is the thinner one. The Association is a working body — its published directory at ncbca.net, read, lists the town's businesses and institutions member by member, from 1st Source Bank and the Town of New Carlisle itself to Historic New Carlisle, Inc., the New Carlisle Hometown Days organization, the New Carlisle Lions Club, the New Prairie United School Corporation and the public library. But searched against the register read whole, the Association has no exempt line of its own: among the 68 organizations there is no line under the name New Carlisle Business and Community Association. That is a register finding, not a finding that the Association is not a corporation — a body may be incorporated with the state without holding a federal exempt ruling in its own name, and the Indiana Secretary of State's corporate record for the Association stands unpulled. Its corporate course therefore closes at directory strength: an operating association, keeping the town's directory, with no federal exempt line in the November 2026 register.

Sources:

1. IRS exempt-organizations register for New Carlisle, IN 46552, re-read 11 November 2026 (TaxExemptWorld publication of the IRS list): DISCOVER NEW CARLISLE (c/o Kathy Aurenz), PO Box 723, Charitable Organization (Economic Development), exempt status date 10/2015; and the whole-68 scan in the same read, in which no line stands under the name New Carlisle Business and Community Association.
2. Banked build facts: Discover New Carlisle, Inc., established 2013, the town's promotion organization; the New Carlisle Business and Community Association (NCBCA), the directory keeper.
3. New Carlisle Business and Community Association, DIRECTORY (ncbca.net/directory.html), read via search 11 November 2026: member listings including 1st Source Bank, Historic New Carlisle, INC (Attn: Dana Groves, 112 East Michigan Street, PO Box 107), New Carlisle Hometown Days, New Carlisle Lions Club, New Carlisle Public Library, New Prairie United School Corp, and Town of New Carlisle (Attn: Sue Moffitt, 124 East Michigan Street, PO Box 6).