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Democracy Fund Voice

3 published research records · Latest research 2026-09-15

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About Democracy Fund Voice

Democracy Fund Voice primary records demonstrate this mechanism directly.

From Sixteen Thirty fiscal sponsorship means incoming grants may be project-directed rather than general treasury money (2026-09-15). Recorded status: PRIMARY organizational model and named-project grants verified. Fiscal sponsorship architecture established; illegality, concealment intent and Idaho project destination NOT inferred. New published findings are added here as sourced excerpts.

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Article IV, which directly reported paying $2.22 million to Idahoans for Open Primaries in FY2024, has disclosed institutional grant funding from Our American Future Action ($3.4 million across 2023-2024), Leadership Network ($2.5 million in 2024), Hopewell Fund ($433,000 in 2022), and Democracy Fund Voice ($150,000 in 2023).
Article IV has documented upstream funders; OAFA also funded Fairness Project · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified 990-derived grant relationships. Earmarking and causal attribution to Idaho are explicitly unverified.

IRS-derived 2019-2025 grant records identify at least $497M in itemized institutional grants to Sixteen Thirty from 84 funders, led by New Venture Fund (~$234.8M), Open Society Policy Center (~$68.2M), Catalyst4 (~$36.0M), Future Forward USA Action (~$29.2M), North Fund (~$24.7M), Hopewell Fund (~$22.5M), and Democracy Fund Voice (~$14.4M).
Sixteen Thirty is a high-volume funding hub with Arabella administration, NVF payroll integration and reciprocal grant flows · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: PRIMARY 2024 financial/admin facts plus IRS-derived multi-year grant totals verified. Reciprocal flows/integration established; wrongdoing, laundering, same-dollar cycling and Idaho earmarking NOT established.

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Other names appearing in the same research (18)

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Organizations

Hopewell Fund · 2 shared records
Open Society Policy Center · 2 shared records
Sixteen Thirty Fund · 2 shared records
America Votes · 1 shared record
Arabella Advisors · 1 shared record
Article IV · 1 shared record
Bright Future Fund · 1 shared record
Idahoans for Open Primaries · 1 shared record
Leadership Network · 1 shared record
League of Conservation Voters · 1 shared record
Long Ridge Action Fund · 1 shared record
New Venture Fund · 1 shared record
North Fund · 1 shared record
Our American Future Action · 1 shared record

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Research finding · 2026-09-15Sixteen Thirty fiscal sponsorship means incoming grants may be project-directed rather than general treasury money

Recorded status: PRIMARY organizational model and named-project grants verified. Fiscal sponsorship architecture established; illegality, concealment intent and Idaho project destination NOT inferred.

Sixteen Thirty Fund’s own current materials establish that it is not merely a conventional grantmaker: it operates a fiscal-sponsorship platform. Its approach page says interested projects can be incubated under Sixteen Thirty, Sixteen Thirty becomes the project’s fiscal sponsor, the project sources funding, and when a foundation or other funder donates to support that project the fiscal sponsor receives the donation on the project’s behalf. Sixteen Thirty then supplies legal/compliance, HR, accounting and payroll support; projects may remain sponsored, spin out or end. The organization currently reports more than 100 sponsored projects operating across all 50 states. This means incoming grants recorded to Sixteen Thirty cannot automatically be treated as unrestricted general-support dollars; the underlying purpose/project must be identified whenever possible. Democracy Fund Voice primary records demonstrate this mechanism directly. Its 2022 Form 990 Schedule I reports separate grants to Sixteen Thirty earmarked/program-designated for Trusted Elections Action Fund ($1.8M), CSME Action ($250K and another $250K), The Hub Project ($200K), The League in Action ($150K), and a Pipeline Fund state/local candidate research project ($75K). Democracy Fund Voice’s 2024 grant list explicitly describes Trusted Elections Action Fund as a fiscally sponsored project of Sixteen Thirty Fund. These records prove that Sixteen Thirty functions as a legal/financial umbrella through which funders can support named internal advocacy projects. The correct audit method is therefore: for each large incoming Sixteen Thirty grant, identify whether it is general support or project-restricted; then map the named project, staff/resource-sharing arrangements, expenditures, downstream grants and state activity. This architecture is not evidence of illegality; fiscal sponsorship is a recognized nonprofit structure. It does, however, mean organization-level grant totals can conceal the operational destination unless grant-purpose records are retrieved.

Sources

Sixteen Thirty Fund — Our Approach — Sixteen Thirty Fund Model

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