Montana State AFL-CIO

Article IV’s FY2024 Form 990 materially sharpens its role beyond passive grantmaking. In its program-service narrative, Article IV states that its “core team of cross-partisan advisors” provided strategic support to various state reform campaigns aligned with Article IV’s policy priorities and board vision, while Article IV also made financial grants to those campaigns. The same filing’s Schedule I reports $2,220,000 in general support to Idahoans for Open Primaries and $25,000 in general support to Boise-based Conservative Accountability Project. Separately, Schedule C reports $225,000 total paid to section 527 political organizations: $170,000 to Defend and Protect Idaho, $25,000 to Montana State AFL-CIO, and $30,000 to Way Back PAC. This creates a primary-source, same-year institutional topology in which Article IV both financed Idaho election-reform/advocacy entities and directly paid two PAC nodes already central to the Idaho network, Defend and Protect Idaho and Way Back. The program narrative proves Article IV provided strategic support to some state reform campaigns, but the filing does not identify which specific campaigns received advisory support; therefore it does NOT establish that Article IV advisors directly managed , , , or Way Back. It also does not prove coordination among those recipients, candidate control, or that the same dollars moved between them. This finding is stronger than a mere donor-overlap observation because itself reports both a strategic-support program model and direct financial relationships to multiple Idaho-network nodes in the same filing year.