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ROW #556 · LEG 83 ITEM 2 · TESTED NEGATIVE (Osceola) / DUG (boundary cluster)
At eight figures and above, St. Joseph County's gift record is rich — and every dollar of it seats in South Bend or at Notre Dame. The cluster, at boundary size and at each record's own strength: the University of Notre Dame's $150 million Walsh gift of 2025, the largest in that university's record, is Notre Dame's. The Joan Kroc bequest's South Bend course — the fortune that built the Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center in South Bend at roughly $70 million in the Granger build's telling — is South Bend's. The Lilly Endowment's county-scale grants — $20 million for the countywide land-bank initiative testified to before the County Council on December 9, 2025 as "the highest in the state," $5 million in 2001 for Early Years Count, $4,066,025 in GIFT VII leadership funding in 2020 — are the county foundation's, seated in South Bend (article 3). Against that cluster the Osceola test was run at both floors: no gift of $10 million or more, and none of $100 million or more, to any recipient seated in Osceola, anonymous or named, unrestricted or restricted, appears in any foundation, press, or recipient record reached. An anonymous eight-figure gift is, by the register's own rule, carried at exactly the anonymity the record keeps — and here the record keeps none, because none is recorded.
Closure: TESTED NEGATIVE. The cluster article exists so that a reader can see the county's real scale and the town's real absence in the same paragraph, with no credit crossing the line in either direction.
Sources:
- County-scale gift record as cited in articles 3 and 9 of this section (Lilly Endowment / Community Foundation of St. Joseph County).
- Boundary gifts at the strength of the Granger build's leg83 record (Walsh 2025; Kroc/South Bend) — boundary-printed, not re-dug as Osceola facts.
- Search record of this run, November 2026.