Connection research · Research date 2026-09-15
Unite America Institute funded multiple organizations in the Idaho Open Primaries ecosystem during the 2023 launch year
Recorded status: PRIMARY VERIFIED grant amounts/purposes plus verified Idaho campaign relationships; no Idaho earmarking or same-dollar tracing.
This is a dated research record. Its qualifications and open questions are part of the account. Association alone does not establish wrongdoing or control.
Unite America Institute’s primary 2023 Form 990 reveals a same-year concentration of grants to several national organizations that were directly involved in, affiliated with, or partnered around Idaho’s newly launched Open Primaries campaign. The filing reports: $500,000 to Veterans for Political Innovation for veteran recruitment, calls-to-action/actions, and veteran coalition development; $450,000 to Open Primaries Education Fund for a grassroots program for primary-reform activists, media/research, and long-term litigation; $250,000 to RepresentUs Education Fund for general operating support and the American Democracy Summit; and $25,000 to Mormon Women for Ethical Government Foundation for educational content on problems with the current election system and potential solutions. Total: $1.225 million. Idaho Capital Sun’s May 2, 2023 launch report identifies the new Idahoans for Open Primaries coalition as including the Idaho Task Force of Veterans for Political Innovation, Represent US Idaho, Reclaim Idaho, North Idaho Women, and Hope Coalition; MWEG Idaho formally joined and actively gathered signatures later in 2023. Open Primaries’ national site lists Reclaim Idaho and IFO as Idaho state partners and later provided a senior VP declaration supporting IFO litigation. RepresentUs’ own 2024 campaign hub lists Idaho Proposition 1 among its campaign targets. Separately, Hopewell Fund’s primary 2023 Schedule I shows a $500,000 grant to Unite America Institute, after an $850,000 grant in 2022. These facts establish that Unite America Institute was funding multiple organizations in the same election-reform ecosystem during the Idaho initiative’s launch year, while Hopewell was a significant Unite America Institute funder. They DO NOT establish that Hopewell’s $500,000 was the source of any particular Unite grant, that any Unite Institute grant was earmarked for Idaho, or that the $1.225M was transferred to IFO/Reclaim.
Source references
- Unite America Institute — 2023 Form 990 Schedule I — Schedule I Part II, page 36
- Idaho Capital Sun — New coalition seeks to end Idaho’s closed primary elections — May 2, 2023 coalition launch
- Open Primaries — Idaho state page — State Partners
- RepresentUs — Idaho Final Four Voting campaign page — Campaign Hub / Idaho
- Hopewell Fund — 2023 Form 990 Schedule I — Schedule I, Unite America Institute row