The Schools' Foundations Test

Row 5 — the New Prairie United School Corporation's foundation and scholarship-endowment record, swept in the register, as of November 2026

The test, and its result: Swept line by line, the register carries no New Prairie education foundation. There is no line for a New Prairie foundation, no NPUSC foundation, and no scholarship-endowment corporation seated at the schools' own addresses — 5327 and 5333 N Cougar Road — anywhere among the 68 organizations. The negative prints as a finding, at register strength: as of November 2026 the New Prairie United School Corporation has no foundation corporation of its own in the federal exempt record for this town.

What the register carries instead is the booster economy, and it is thick: NEW PRAIRIE ACTIVITY CENTER (Educational Organization, c/o the school corporation, 10/2011); NEW PRAIRIE BAND BOOSTERS INC (03/2017); NEW PRAIRIE BUILDING TRADES INC (Charitable, Youth Development Programs, 03/2013); NEW PRAIRIE CHOIR BOOSTERS (05/2019); NEW PRAIRIE DIAMOND CLUB INC (02/2019); NEW PRAIRIE LITTLE LEAGUE INC (03/2022); NEW PRAIRIE SLAM DUNK CLUB INC (05/2011); TAKE DOWN CLUB INC and TOUCHDOWN CLUB INC (04/2010 and 05/1997, each classed Single Organization Support); NP DANCE BOOSTERS (07/2024); NEW PRAIRIE COUGAR ROCKET FOOTBALL & CHEER (05/2024); ROBOCLUB (06/2017); ESA DIAMONDS CHEER BOOSTER CLUB INC (10/2016); and OLIVE ELEMENTARY PTO (Educational, Parent/Teacher Group, 12/2023). Around them stand the two public building corporations: NEW PRAIRIE UNITED SCHOOL BUILDING CORPORATION (Social Welfare Organization, 12/1995) and the library's leasing corporation (12/2002) — financing instruments of the public bodies, not endowments. The one line in the register classed as a public foundation, HAMILTON FOUNDATION INC (06/1989), stands at 31869 Chicago Trail, the Haven Hubbard Homes address — not a school address, and not a school foundation by name.

Where New Prairie scholarship money does sit, the reached record shows it pooled outside the district's own corporations: the Coach Nova Scholarship, established in 2022 for New Prairie High School athletic seniors by a teacher who taught physical education at New Prairie High School for thirty-six years, is a fund of the Unity Foundation of La Porte County, seated in Michigan City. That is the community-foundation pattern the donations article in the specialty file already prints — the pooled vehicle is the neighbouring county's foundation, not a corporation of this town — and the schools' test lands in the same place: booster corporations many, a foundation none.

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 school-address and school-name lines enumerated above, and the absence of any foundation line for the New Prairie United School Corporation among the 68.
2. Unity Foundation of La Porte County, "Coach Nova Scholarship" (uflc.net/funds/coach-nova-scholarship/), read via search 11 November 2026: the fund established in 2022 to benefit New Prairie High School athletic seniors; the founder taught physical education for thirty-six years at New Prairie High School, retiring in 2012; the Foundation's address is 422 Franklin St, Suite C, Michigan City, IN 46360.
3. Specialty file, donations article: the pooled-vehicle test — no community-foundation endowment is seated in New Carlisle.