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The Fairness Project
8 published research records · Latest research 2026-09-18
LIVING DOSSIER
About The Fairness Project
| The Fairness Project | $1,225,000 (2024) | Its own campaign history confirms work with Idaho partners on Medicaid expansion in 2018.
From Sixteen Thirty Fund: 21 grantees with documented or qualified Idaho connections (2026-09-18). Recorded status: Working inventory; five direct Idaho recipients primary-verified; national and longer routes separately qualified; not exhaustive all-time or proof of pass-through. New published findings are added here as sourced excerpts.
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The Ballot Initiative Strategy Center (BISC) has profiled Mayville as a campaign leader and in 2024 described Reclaim Idaho among its 'state partners.' In 2025, the Association of Health Care Journalists hosted a ballot-measure session featuring Luke Mayville (then described as Reclaim Idaho executive director) alongside the executive directors of BISC and The Fairness Project.
Route A: Foundation to Promote Open Society (a separate Open Society philanthropic entity already documented elsewhere) gave Hopewell Fund approximately $28.3M across 13 grants from 2020-2024; Hopewell then funded Unite America Institute, Article IV, The Fairness Project, New Venture Fund, Sixteen Thirty Fund, and Global Impact, all of which sit on separately documented routes into Idaho advocacy/election networks.
The strongest historical Soros-related Idaho claim found traces to 2018-2019 criticism of the Medicaid campaign: contemporaneous Coeur d’Alene Press reporting described SEIU-UHW meeting minutes saying the union had received $500,000 from an Open Societies project for Fairness Project work; Mayville and Reclaim then stated Reclaim itself had received no financial support from The Fairness Project or the union, while acknowledging Fairness Project as a campaign partner that independently paid petitioners.
OAFA's own Schedule I also shows a $1.75 million grant to The Fairness Project and $1.405 million to Article IV in FY2023.
A targeted current-activity search found no public evidence that The Fairness Project is financing, organizing, or otherwise participating in Idaho opposition to HJR 4.
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Connections
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Organizations
Reclaim Idaho
Stated in published researchThe Fairness Project is independently documented as having provided major paid support to Reclaim Idaho's 2018 Medicaid initiative, but this specific OAFA grant came five years later.
Read record and sources →Action Now Inc
Stated in published researchAction Now grant records report a $200,000 grant to The Fairness Project in 2022.
Read record and sources →Idahoans for Healthcare
Stated in published researchIdahoans for Healthcare's 2018 primary filings report $430,722.21 year-to-date cash contributions from The Fairness Project by the pre-general report, plus reported in-kind support.
Read record and sources →Other names appearing in the same research (36)
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People
- George Soros · 2 shared records
- Amanda Watson · 1 shared record
- Bob Naerebout · 1 shared record
- Emily Strizich · 1 shared record
- Garrett Strizich
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Connection research · 2026-09-18Sixteen Thirty Fund: 21 grantees with documented or qualified Idaho connections
Recorded status: Working inventory; five direct Idaho recipients primary-verified; national and longer routes separately qualified; not exhaustive all-time or proof of pass-through.
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