The Civic Leagues, Swept in the Register

Row 8 — NAACP, League of Women Voters, Urban League: the absence printed as a finding, as of November 2026

Absent, all three: The register was swept for the national civic leagues by name, and the finding is an absence. Among the 68 organizations on the Internal Revenue Service exempt list for New Carlisle, Indiana, there is no NAACP line, no League of Women Voters line and no Urban League line. No chapter, branch or unit of any of the three is seated in this town in the federal record, and the absence prints here as a finding, not as a silence.

The boundary is South Bend's. The county's chapter life for these bodies is seated in the county seat: the League of Women Voters of the South Bend Area is the League that serves this county — its own site, its VOTE411 presence and its South Bend luncheon programming all run under the South Bend Area name — and the NAACP's county presence is likewise the South Bend chapter, appearing in the South Bend press as a South Bend body acting on South Bend questions. A New Carlisle resident who joins the League or the NAACP joins a South Bend chapter; the township is inside those chapters' territory without holding a chapter of its own. That is the whole finding, at boundary size: the civic-league form reached this county, and it seated itself in the county seat, not in a town of 1,891 — and the register for this town, read whole twice, carries none of the three names.

Sources:

1. IRS exempt-organizations register for New Carlisle, IN 46552, read whole November 2026 and re-read 11 November 2026 (TaxExemptWorld publication of the IRS list): the whole-68 scan — no NAACP, League of Women Voters or Urban League line.
2. League of Women Voters of the South Bend Area (lwvsouthbend.org; vote411.org/in-lwvsba), read via search 11 November 2026: the League serving the area under the South Bend Area name, including its "Lunch with the League" programming in South Bend.
3. South Bend Tribune, read via search 11 November 2026: "the South Bend chapters of Black Lives Matter and the NAACP" acting jointly on a South Bend schools forum — the NAACP's county presence printed as a South Bend chapter.