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The largest gift, established at the strength the record allows

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ROW #555 · LEG 83 ITEM 1 · DUG (the sweep's shape) / NAMED GAP (a certified largest)

The sweep was run — across recipient records, the county foundation's record, and the press and foundation record the open web returns — and its answer is a shape, not a trophy: no single gift to an institution seated in Osceola, in any record reached, is published with the full instrument the register demands — amount, donor, recipient, date and restrictions from the recipient's or donor's own record. The largest documented money that moves for Osceola's institutions moves at district and county size, through bodies seated elsewhere: the Penn-Harris-Madison Education Foundation (seated in Mishawaka; 2023 revenue $206,063 on its Form 990 record) and the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County (article 9). Inside the town line, the largest fully documented gift this build holds is an in-kind one — the 0.34-acre Strefling land donation of 2025, carried whole in article 10 — and the largest documented cash-giving datum seated at the town's own school is Moran Elementary's DonorsChoose record: $1,523 raised, 1 project funded, 24 donors, all from Indiana, as the platform's own school page states it in November 2026. Those are the anchors. Everything larger in the county's record — Notre Dame's gifts, the Kroc bequest — belongs to other seats and prints in article 2 as boundary, never absorbed.

NAMED GAP (residual): a certified largest gift to an Osceola-seated recipient. Settlers: Penn-Harris-Madison board minutes (gift acceptances) read in series; the Community Foundation's grants database read for Osceola-addressed grantees; the town's church campaign records (Indiana parishes file no Form 990, so no open sweep can certify the ranking); Kiracofe (1988) for the pre-1988 gift record. What the open record establishes stands in the first paragraph, at full strength.

Sources:

  1. DonorsChoose, Moran Elementary School page (read November 2026) — $1,523; 1 project; 24 donors.
  2. P-H-M Education Foundation Form 990 record (GiveFreely mirror) — Mishawaka seat; 2023 revenue $206,063.
  3. St. Joseph County Parks Board papers, September–October 2025 — the Strefling donation (article 10).
  4. Search record of this run — largest/record gift sweeps for Osceola-seated recipients; none above the scale stated returned.

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Source: The largest gift, established at the strength the record allows, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/osceola/major-donations/1-the-largest-gift-established-at-the-strength-the/