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Major Donations — North Liberty
The largest sum of money ever given to anything under North Liberty's name was given by the State of Indiana in 2023, and it was given to a lake in its township. Below that single nine-figure fact, the town's giving record is a nineteenth-century record: land deeded for a burial ground, land held for a park, federal labour poured into fieldstone. No private mega-gift, no Lilly-scale grant, no founding benefactor with a sized cheque appears in any carrier reached — and the table at the end of this section prints that thinness in rows, because a donations record filled out with other cities' gifts would be lying about the one thing it exists to measure.
The largest gift whole and first: $100 million for the Lodge at Potato Creek
Appropriated 2023 · ground broken 19 October 2023
To support the lodge's construction, $100 million was appropriated in the state budget — the State of Indiana's own words at the groundbreaking. The gift, stated with its class kept straight: donor, the State of Indiana, by…
The founding benefactions: deeds, not cheques
1854 · 1884 · 1935–1937
The gifts that founded this town's institutions were parcels of land and seasons of labour, and the record kept the deeds and lost the prices. On 6 September 1854 Samuel Gard deeded land to trustees for a burial ground — Deed…
The modern record: a foundation raised on giving, and the tests that return thin
2019 – 2026
The town's one modern giving story runs outward: North Liberty as donor, not recipient. The Zac Mago Foundation, founded in North Liberty in 2019 by Teresa Mago in memory of her son Zac, states its mechanism in its own words…
The ranked table close
As documented, November 2026
Every documented major gift to this ground, ranked, with unpublished amounts printed as unpublished. 1. $100,000,000 — State of Indiana (appropriation) to the Lodge at Potato Creek, DNR/Indiana Inns Authority, Liberty Township…