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2013–2026
The gifts: Holy Cross College, the Brothers of Holy Cross college beside Saint Mary's, holds the smallest endowment of the four campuses in this record, and its major gifts scale accordingly — which makes their documentation the cleaner. In 2013 the college received a gift of 2 million dollars from Guy Gundlach and the Elkhart County Community Foundation, aimed at scholarships for the families and spouses of fallen veterans — a record gift for the college at its date. In 2020 it received a grant of 1 million dollars from Lilly Endowment under the Endowment's Charting the Future program for Indiana colleges. And in February 2026 the college announced a commitment of 2.25 million dollars from anonymous benefactors — 750,000 dollars for a chapel in the new residence hall opening that August, and 1.5 million for a Center for Campus Ministry in the future student union — the largest gift from individual donors in the college's sixty-year history, on the college's own announcement. The progression is the entry: a college of a few hundred students, carried to its present buildings by gifts the size of a single Notre Dame endowment line, each one a record when it came.
Sources:
- Holy Cross College announcement (10 February 2026) — the anonymous commitment of 2.25 million dollars and its division; the college's published history — the Gundlach and Elkhart County Community Foundation gift of 2013 and the Lilly Endowment grant of 2020.