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Established 1992 – present
North Liberty has no community foundation of its own; its pooled vehicle is the county's, seated in South Bend, and the leg prints it whole at boundary size. The Community Foundation of St. Joseph County was established in 1992 (its profiles differ by a year at the edges — one compiler prints founded 1991 — and the foundation's own history is the settler for the discrepancy), a charitable endowment in the foundation's own words to improve the quality of life for the citizens of St. Joseph County and their succeeding generations. It administers scores of funds — a 2024 profile counts over 80 — awards roughly $10 million in grants in a recent year, and held more than $255 million in assets on that profile, with a directory reading of $327.4 million in assets and $61.3 million in revenue in a later filing vintage; both figures print with their sources because they are different years' filings, not a disagreement to hide. Its grantmaking is county-wide by charter, which makes North Liberty eligible ground; but no grant to a North Liberty recipient was itemized in any carrier reached, and the town's receipts from the pooled vehicle stand as a named gap whose settler is the foundation's grants database read for Liberty Township recipients. The foundation's own deep history, including the Lilly Endowment seed money behind its Early Years Count education initiative, belongs to South Bend's build and is pointed to, not retold.