Connection research · Research date 2026-09-15
Mainstreet Idaho Caucus has a separate nonprofit legal entity tied to the same legislative caucus that included Dixon/Hartgen/Lanting
Recorded status: Verified legal entity/website/officer data and contemporaneous caucus participation; donor visibility limited.
This is a dated research record. Its qualifications and open questions are part of the account. Association alone does not establish wrongdoing or control.
A separate nonprofit legal entity, Mainstreet Idaho Caucus Inc. (EIN 93-2252543), reports www.idahomainstreet.org as its website. IRS-derived FY2023 filing data show about $61,000 in revenue, approximately $38,000 in expenses and $23,000 in net assets, with Gretchen Clelland as president, Brian Garrett as treasurer, Jeff Sayer as secretary and Rep. Josh Wheeler as executive director. Current tax-exempt directories classify the entity as a 501(c)(4) social-welfare organization; a philanthropy.org page has an inconsistent BMF classification display, so use the c4 classification with attribution to Charity Navigator/TaxExemptWorld until the IRS determination record is reproduced. Contemporaneous September 2023 reporting describes Josh Wheeler as one of the creators of the Main Street Idaho Caucus and identifies Chenele Dixon, Linda Wright-Hartgen, Greg Lanting, Geoff Schroeder and numerous other legislators as signers of a Main Street caucus statement. The same report quotes mission language from the group website. FY2024 IRS-derived funder data identify a $10,000 grant from Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America to Mainstreet Idaho Caucus Inc.; no grant purpose was located in this pass. This establishes that the legislative caucus orbit involving Dixon/Hartgen/Lanting had a distinct nonprofit organizational vehicle with reported revenue and at least one identifiable institutional grant. It does NOT establish that Dixon, Hartgen or Lanting controlled the corporation, received its funds personally, or directed the PhRMA grant.