The schools' foundations: one foundation, no succession — and the county's scholarship endowment as its own vehicle

There is no succession to tell, because there was never a first foundation to succeed. The South Bend pattern — a public-education foundation giving way to an education alliance — is a template, not this ground's course. The school corporation that serves Osceola, Penn-Harris-Madison, has exactly one foundation in its course: the Penn-Harris-Madison Education Foundation, established in 1996 as an independent nonprofit 501(c)(3) dedicated to supporting the educational mission of the district's schools, in the foundation's own published history. It develops alternative sources of income outside the district's funding, awards innovative teaching grants — more than 520,000 dollars distributed in such grants by the fall of 2017, on the district's own report — and funds scholarships to students and staff development. Its corporate seat is Mishawaka, the district's seat, not Osceola; Osceola's schools stand inside its service ground, and no foundation body is seated in this town. The register read whole supports exactly that shape: its school bodies are the Indiana Congress of Parents and Teachers line (ruled December 1988) and the Penn High Building Trades Corp — a parent-teacher congress and a building-trades corporation, school bodies both, and neither one a foundation. No predecessor foundation and no alliance stands in the register, in the district's record, or in the Secretary of State material reached, so the succession article closes as a single-foundation course, 1996 to the present, printed whole.

The county's own scholarship endowment is a separate vehicle and is told separately, as the checklist requires. It is the scholarship program of the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County — since 1992, on the foundation's own account, connecting people who care with causes that matter across the whole county from its South Bend seat. Its named-scholarship funds open at a 25,000-dollar minimum commitment, and it administers the county's Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship, whose 2025 recipients included two Penn High School students, Matthew Deahl and Areej Arif — Osceola-ground students carried by a county-seat vehicle, which is the correct shape and the only shape the record supports. Against that vehicle stands the one scholarship fund actually seated in the Osceola register: the Rob Melton Memorial Foundation, ruled December 2010 — a private memorial fund, told at register size in the banked file. A memorial fund is not the county's scholarship endowment, and printing the two as one would double-count both; they are printed here as the two distinct vehicles they are.

Sources: P-H-M Education Foundation, published history and governance pages (established 1996; independent 501(c)(3)); Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation reports (fall 2017 grants; inception 1996); Community Foundation of St. Rights basis: facts of corporate existence, dates and published program figures; no image pulled.