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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: "With generous donations from our community, my Foundation can provide heart screenings. If you don't have the money, don't worry, my foundation will cover the cost for you." The community's outpouring after Zac's death from sudden cardiac arrest founded the foundation — its own account says it was founded "as a result of the outpouring of love and support" the family received from "their small community and surrounding areas" — and the foundation now spends that giving across northern Indiana, screening hearts in county after county. No single founding gift amount is published in any carrier reached, and none is estimated. The remaining tests of the checklist return thin or negative: higher-education giving — no institution in town to receive it; health giving by subscription — no hospital to raise; the community foundation's grants to North Liberty recipients — none itemized in any carrier reached, standing as a named gap against the foundation's grants database; the Lilly Endowment line to this town — no grant to a North Liberty recipient found, the Endowment's documented local presence being its seeding of the county foundation's education initiative at county scale. The teacher's-life-savings gift and the mansion given whole return no instance. Thinness, here, is not a failure of searching: it is the documented shape of giving in a town whose wealth leg is four pages of unsized farms.