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ITEMS 2–3 · TESTED NOVEMBER 2026; THE FOUNDATION'S PRESENCE AT COUNTY GRAIN
The leg's scale tests come from the cities — the nine-figure commitment, the eight-figure cluster, the great foundation's grant course — and run for Walkerton they return this section's most useful negative: this town's giving has no upper storey at all. No gift of nine or eight figures, no unrestricted mega-commitment, and no anonymous gift of size is documented for any Walkerton recipient in the Endowment's, the universities', the hospitals', or the Tribune's major-gift record as searched; the cluster the checklist assembles for a city simply has no members here, and it prints as an empty class rather than a disappointment. The Lilly Endowment line, run as its own article as ordered: a recipient search of the Endowment's grant record for Walkerton institutions — town, school corporation, library, society — returns no grant of record at named strength in this run; the Endowment's own published guidelines make the shape unsurprising (its community-development and education grantmaking runs to Indianapolis first, and to the rest of Indiana chiefly through initiatives and intermediaries). Its presence reaches Walkerton at exactly that intermediated grain, and the leg prints it so: through the Giving Indiana Funds for Tomorrow (GIFT) initiative's decades of capacity grants to the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County, the county's foundation, under whose umbrella the town's philanthropy partly sits; and through the Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship, the full-tuition scholarship administered by county through the same foundation, for which John Glenn's seniors compete each year — the Endowment's money touching this town's families one student at a time, as designed. The direct course is empty; the intermediated course is the county's; both halves print, and the leg moves on to the giving that is actually the town's.
Principal sources: Lilly Endowment grant records, recipient-searched for Walkerton, November 2026 (no direct grant of record); the Endowment's published guidelines and GIFT initiative record; the Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship's county administration.